At Bank Street Arts 10 February – 9 March. Private view 12 Feb: invitation here.
Tom Jenks
Three events at Edge Hill
Via Robert Sheppard:
25th February 2010: Sean Bonney was born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England, and now lives in London. His books include Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002), Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005),Document: hexprogress (Yt Communication, 2006), Baudelaire in English(Veer 2008) and Document: poems, diagrams, manifestos (Barque 2009). He co-edits the press Yt Communication.Together with other younger poets his work marks a progression and continuance of the British Poetry Revival. His ideological drive andenergetic performance style mark him out as a leading proponent of thisschool of poetry, so expect an explosive performance. Rose Theatre 7.30: £3.50
3rd March 2010 Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire and studied at Cambridge and Manchester. She’s worked as a barmaid, a waitress, a Samaritan and a cleaner and she currently lives with her daughter in Preston and runs a library inside a prison. She writes a blog here: http://www.jennashworth.blogspot.com and her first novel waspublished with Arcadia in May 2009: A Kind of Intimacy Rose Theatre. 7.30: £3.50
Plus Open Poetry and Poetics meeting: Carrie Etter: 6-8.00 on 20thApril 2010, venue in Education Block; free
On her anthology Infinite Difference and her own poetry. Carrie Etter is an American poet resident in England since 2001. Previously she lived in Normal, Illinois (until age 19) and southern California (from age 19to 32). In the UK, her poems have appeared in, amongst others, New WelshReview, Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, PN Review, Shearsman, Stand and TLS, while in the US her poems have appeared in magazines such as Aufgabe, Columbia, Court Green, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Seneca Review. Her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren in June 2009, and her second, Divining for Starters, containing moreexperimental work, is due for publication by Shearsman Books in 2011.She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for Bath Spa University.
Sean Bonney – The Commons
PDF copies of Sean Bonney’s long poem The Commons are available by contacting Sean directly. Details at his blog here.
The Arthur Shilling Skype Reading Series
begins on Monday 8th February at 8.15pm GMT with Stephen Emmerson reading for half an hour. If you would like to ‘attend’ the reading (online via skype), please get in touch with Harry Godwin via the Arthur Shilling site here.
nick-e melville – selections and dissections
The first release of the year from the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a collection from Scottish concrete & visual poet, nick-e melville.
What nick-e melville creates within selections and dissections is text as experience, presenting us with different ways to look at visual language, different ways to understand the ubiquitous textscapes of daily living. The pages of this book are filled with games, but games of the most serious kind, games about the act of being sentient textual beings. Melville, a textual imagineer, examines the spaces between letters, the negative spaces between lines of text, and even the halftone atoms of printing, always looking for the surprise in the printed text. To read this book is to experience these acts of textual imagination as cinema, as vibrant and moving sequences of thought. — Geof Huth
Check out a sample here and the Otoliths project – a magazine as well as a publisher – here.
New Joy As Tiresome Vandalism
Absolute Elsewhere, the latest collaboration between writer James Davies and photographer Simon Taylor continues to unfold with this month’s instalment, a photograph by Simon. See the latest and catch up with the project so far here.
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Out now, featuring poetry from James Davies, Julius Kalamarz and Holly Pester. Click here for more information.
Caroline Bergvall- 2 events
Speaking Out: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice
Saturday 6 February 2010, 10.30–17.30
This symposium focuses on the use of the spoken word in artistic practice and its manifestations in sonic and audiovisual art works. Taking the lead from the recently published anthology of works Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, this event encompasses performances, talks and conversations by artists and researchers who employ spoken words as their material and inspiration.
Contributors include Tomomi Adachi, Caroline Bergvall, David Toop, Imogen Stidworthy, Brandon LaBelle, Oswaldo Macià and Trevor Wishart.
In collaboration with CRISAP, Creative Research into Sound Art Practice, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20795.htm
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Sina Queyras:
Caroline Bergvall’s Lingual Scultpures
Lively posting on a few of Caroline Bergvall’s pieces by Canadian poet Sina Queyras on the Poetry Foundation’s widely read blog, Harriet.
Includes a sound file.
Posted on 26 January 2010.
To be followed by a written Q&A to be published in the next few days.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/01/caroline-bergvalls-lingual-scultpures/#more-7722
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Other recent events available to view/hear/check up on:
http://www.carolinebergvall.com
Streetcake Issue 9
Now online, featuring:
- Trini Decombe
- Stephen Emmerson
- Maartens Lourens
- Andy Palmer
- Angela Readman
- Alyson Torns
Link.
Robert Grenier Penn Scans
More here.
Cleaves now online
The first issue of the new journal ‘Cleaves’ is now online at http://www.cleavesjournal.com
Kinetic poetry
Like hallucinogenic fridge magnets. Try it here.
John Ashbery on Radio 3
The next edition of BBC Radio 3’s The Verb will feature an interview with John Ashbery. 8th January 2010, 21:15.
More here.
BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
We’ve already posted about this, but it’s well worth a reminder that Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) is now available. Details of this and the upcoming Birkbeck launch event below, via Alan Halsey:
BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books
This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths’ poetry up to ‘Building: The New London Hospital’. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, includes the full ‘Cycles’ and ‘War W/ Windsor’ sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.
368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Pre-publication price £17.50 post free
(after January, £18 + post)
Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk
LAUNCH at Birkbeck, Wednesday 17th February, 7.30
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan
a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview
a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview
with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson
e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview
edited for real by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
More here.
Matt Dalby – final sound poetry release 2009
Small, Matt Dalby’s final CD of sound poetry for 2009 is available now. More here.
Penned in the Margins
“Independent poetry press Penned in the Margins is now open to submission of manuscripts. Our authors include David Caddy, James Wilkes, Sarah Hesketh and George Ttoouli. This year we published the anthology City State: New London Poetry, featuring new work by Chris McCabe, Heather Phillipson, Steve Willey, Ahren Warner and many more. Our individual collections have been Highly Commended by the Forward Prize, featured on Newsnight and reviewed in Poetry London, Poetry Salzburg Review and Mslexia.”
More here.
Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’
In its festive merriment, and review of the culture of the decad,e The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.
1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10. Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets
New Joy As Tiresome Vandalism
More from Absolute Elsewhere, James Davies’ and Simon Taylor’s collaborative text and image project. December’s instalment is a poem from James.
More here.
Diverse Deeds – Wednesday 16th December
Angela Gardner + the voice of Harry Godwin + Mendoza + Nat Raha + Michael Zand
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL.
doors open at 7.30; start at 8.00; end by 10.00; entry £6 (£4 concessions).
This event links the visiting Australian poet and artist Angela Gardner with readings and performances from a group of young and innovative London poets.
Angela Gardner is an Australian poet with a prize-winning reputation in her own country: 2006 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for Parts of Speech, (University of Queensland Press, 2007) and 2004 Bauhinia/Idiom 23 Prize). Her new book, Views of the Hudson has been published this year in the UK by Shearsman. She already has an international status as a visual artist. Her poetry is often highly visual, always quick, inventive and engaging. She also edits an online poetry magazine, foam:e, and jointly runs Light-trap Press, publishing artists’ books. This is her last reading in Europe before she returns to Australia.
Harry Godwin, Mendoza, Nat Raha and Michael Zand are all poets in their early 20s now (or until recently) based in London. They are part of the exciting innovative poetry scene based around creative writing courses in London and poetry events like Openned, Crossing the Line and Sundays at the Oto. They have so far only had small pamphlets published, mainly from Harry Godwin’s Arthur Shilling press, or appeared in small magazines and websites. They are playful, inventive and wonderfully original, with strong elements of performance in how they present their poetry.
More information here.
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