Pictures from our transatlantic and transpennine reading, taken by The Other Room’s resident Paparazzo Scott Thurston (think Marcello Mastroianni in La dolce vita but without the motor scooter or chain smoking) are up now on our Facebook page. This was a collaborative event with Information as Material and featured Alan Halsey, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery and Geraldine Monk.
A range of interesting stuff, including Other Room readers David Annwn, Sean Bonney, Allen Fisher, Maggie O’Sullivan, Zoe Skoulding Robert Sheppard and Carol Watts. Read the flyer here.
An evening of performance, poetry and visual text showcasing work from the Drama and Creative Writing programmes at Salford University.
Click here for the flier.
Just as the radical continental poetic methodologies of the 20th century have left an indelible impact on contemporary British poetry, so, it seems, has the model of the poet as a thinker and teacher. Scott Thurston is a central facet in the recent resurgent brilliance of North Western British poetry in and around Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. His is an innovative poetic defined by its care, intricacy and sophistication, and his reputation as a seminal and urbane poet over the last few decades has established him as a vital part of the UK’s poetry scene. In a comprehensive and generous interview he discusses his role as a poet, a teacher, his experience of European poetics and his beginnings in innovative poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-55-scott-thurston
Accompanying the interview are four of Scott’s poems from the work, Sustainability.
Occassional Readings, Furzeacres on Dartmoor in Devon, UK, July 4, 2010
In this performance Scott Thurston reads the entirety of his book Internal Rhyme (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010). Divided into four sections, the book comprises a sequence of eighty poems in total, each constructed in four four-line stanzas which can be read in a vertical as well as in a horizontal direction. For this performance, Thurston experimented with reading two of the book’s sections in both directions. Taking the poems in groups of five, he used two approaches: firstly, reading all five in one direction and then returning to read the same five in the other direction and, secondly, reading each poem in one direction immediately followed by the other direction.
Internal Rhyme develops Thurston’s preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements, as seen in his previous book for Shearman, 2008’s Momentum. The subjects and themes are diverse and include poems responding to Blake, Klimt and Twombly alongside refigurings of the theoretical works of Alain Badiou.
Via Steven Fowler:
An interview with the Spanish poet, the first Spaniard to be featured in Maintenant, Juan Andrés García Román, the 26th subject of the 3am magazine interview series centred on contemporary European poets. Four of his poems are also included. An exceptional interview by an exceptional poet.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-26-juan-andres-garcia-roman
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/four-poems-juan-andres-garcia-roman
We can happily announce that November Saturday 27th will feature our third Maintenant reading in London at the Rich mix centre in 2010. From Iceland we will welcome Ragnhildur Jóhanns / Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl / Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir / Jón Örn Loðmfjörð. As part of the event, the four poets from Iceland will collaborate to produce work with four poets from Britain and we can announce those participants too – Iain Sinclair / Stewart Home / Scott Thurston / Tom Jenks.
Rob Holloway and Scott Thurston will be reading at Crossing the Line in London next Wednesday 5th May. It starts at 7.30 and it’s upstairs at The Leather Exchange on Leathermarket Street, nearest station/tube London Bridge. More here.
Published today.
BUY from SHEARSMAN
Poems at:
Review at Silliman’s Blog
Silliman’s blog – Internal Rhyme
Videos
In advance of the imminent publication of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Volume 2, Number 1 (see http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry), a launch event will be held at University of Cork in association with SoundEye.
Featuring papers by Alex Davis, Sam Ladkin, Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston.
Venue: University College Cork, O’Rahilly Building, Room 1.23, Cork City, Ireland, 16 March 2010, 6 pm – 7 pm.
Directions: http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/Maps/
Poster (PDF):
http://www.scribd.com/full/27468552?access_key=key-13fj15l8ams7kkokrdyo
In 2007, in the space of two weeks, Simon Taylor responded to Scott Thurston’s Matchbox N0. 9, Internal Rhyme, shooting around 12 films. These were then edited down to 150 negatives which became 150 unique gifts in Matchbox No. 9. Matchbox No.9 was just a sample of the collection Internal Rhyme which will be available in 2011 from Shearsman. Other parts of the poem have been published over the last couple of years in various magazines. The links below are to:
Matchbox No.9, Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme poems (Poetry Library digital archive)
Mersey Basin – an exhibition. Featuring a film of Scott Thurston’s Treading Water performance at Otterspool Park last summer. 1 – 19 March 2010. Click here for the flier.
Out now for mail order from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
W.N. Herbert, will be reading at the Chapman Art Gallery, University of Salford tomorrow, Tuesday 16 Feb from 1-2pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Papers by Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady & Robert Hampson
A reminder that the launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative
Poetry (eds Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston) is at the University of
Salford on Wednesday 9 December at 4 pm.
There will be speeches and discussion of the journal, as well as an
opportunity for readers and contributors to the journal to meet with
editorial board members.
Guest Speakers:
Christine Kennedy, Leeds Trinity & All Saints
Allen Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ian Davidson, University of Wales at Bangor
Followed by discussion and drinks.
All Welcome. Free entry.
Address: Room 103, Crescent House, University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, M5 4WT
Directions here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169385893578&ref=share
More about the journal: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry
Giles Goodland will be reading for Vital Signs at the Chapman Gallery, Salford University, at 1pm on Monday 30th November. Admission is free.
Giles is the author of, among other books, the excellent Capital – LINK
Issue 3 of this excellent free self-assembly magazine is out now, featuring, amongst others, The Other Room’s Scott Thurston.
if p then q issue 4 has finally arrived. To purchase go to THIS LINK
This is the last issue of the magazine and is packed full of all your favourites:
Also poems by:
Allen Fisher – Proposals (pdf Sample) – HIT THIS LINK
Allen Fisher video version of 60 Second interview below
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