Our festive hit parade continues with Ted Berrigan, revealing a hitherto unsuspected Brummy accent.
ted berrigan
Experimental Sonnet Writing – Online Course
James Davies will be teaching an online course for The Poetry School
Experimental Sonnet Writing
Tutor: James Davies
Day / Time: Thursdays, fortnightly, 7pm UK Time
Duration: 5 sessions
First Live Chat: 4 October
Price: £76, £67, £60
Level: open to all
The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading a small amount of the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will write your own 14 liners. Tasks will be based around sonnets written in the last hundred years or so (with a particular focus on the last fifty years).By the end of the course you will be inventing your own methods and processes and adding to this rich tradition. Students should have 5-10 of their own poems ready to work on which they are prepared to treat and manipulate; these need not be sonnets nor in any way complete.
We will be thinking about poets including: e.e. cummings, John Berryman, Man Ray, Matthew Welton, Ted Berrigan, Derek Henderson, Philip Terry, Jen Bervin, Tim Atkins, Tony Lopez, Juliana Spahr, Sarah Riggs
See www.poetryschool.com for more
Galatea Resurrects
The vital reviews journal continues to give us such goodies.
Of immediate note are reviews of P. Inman, Derek Henderson, Jeff Hilson and Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism.
Thus & live stream details for performance at The Other Room, 6th April
Derek Henderson will be live streaming from Utah to the Other Room on 6th April at 7.30 UK time and 12.30 Utah time. For other places in the world check conversion times from the UK time. This reading will feature a number of his sonnets from Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s the Sonnets published by if p then q
This is the link for anyone who can’t make it but would like to watch.
Preview of The Other Room 3rd Birthday reader, April 6th, Derek Henderson
Preview of The Other Room 3rd birthday, April 6th reader Derek Henderson. Derek Henderson will be reading from Salt Lake City via live stream. Next week of course is The Other Room.
Poems
THUS & (new if p then q title)</a>
Analysis
Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets out now from if p then q
Ted Berrigan’s seminal The Sonnets is renowned for its famous use of cut up technique and reconfiguration throughout the sequence. Derek Henderson’s erasure Thus & eliminates all words and typographical duplications. In addition to the strikingly beautiful, often minimalist, sonnets created by Henderson, Thus & asks new questions of each Berrigan sonnet and the sequence as a whole. Thus & reveals (conceals) not only the clusters of phrases/lines that were cloned by Berrigan but also words which he repeated; many obviously subconsciously. What is left in Thus & is part skeleton, and underbelly, of maître-sonneteer Berrigan’s The Sonnets and part alien remix by techno-magician Derek Henderson.
Sampler & Concordance
THUS&_sampler
THUS&_Concordance
otherroom.org 