The latest issue of the always interesting Streetcake magazine is out now and ready to view, featuring:
plus Streetcake’s combo compostion. More here.
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Volume 5 of this US magazine is out now and ready to buy, featuring, amongst others, Other Room readers Sean Bonney, Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk and The Other Room’s very own Scott Thurston. Full list:
The latest Argotist Online includes LONDON§TONE by Alex Davies, a highlight from his memorable reading at The Other Room in June. Check it out here.
Steve Rawling has interviewed Tony Trehy for the BBC about The Language Moment, his proposal to develop an international language festival featuring many of the world’s leading poets, sound and media artists. This would take place in Manchester in 2012. Read more about The Language Moment on Tony’s blog, here.
The new issue of Spine is now online, featuring work from the following writers:
More here.
PoemTalk episode 22, a discussion of the twelfth poem of Anew by Louis Zukofsky: a conversation with Bob Perelman, Wystan Curnow and Charles Bernstein.
Mark Cobley’s online publishing project invites submissions: “All we ask is that we like your work and that it is inventive, intriguing and unusual.”
Read more here.
Forthcoming events in London and Oxford organised by LPS:
LP06 – Will Stopha (multimedia poetry set); Huck (PsychoFolk extraordinaire – acoustic set); Special Guest (?); LPS poetasters and AV artists (AV poetry set from Henry Stead, Jef Oswald and Guy Bingley, poems from Jay Richards). 23/09/09.
LP07 – Zan Lyons; Caroline Bird; Yo Zushi and others tbc. 24/10/09.
More details of these events, plus picture poems and more at the LPS site.
“This is the first call for submissions to ToxicPoetry.com’s second exhibition. We are a newly established, independent press for experimental, international mp3 poetry. If you would like to submit, check our site for instructions (link). Additionally, you might want to check out our last exhibition (link). We hope that those seeking publication for their experimental mp3 poetry will considers us.”
The Other Room will be presenting an extra event on Sunday 25th October as part of the Oxjam festival. The venue is Apotheca in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and the start is scheduled for 1 PM. We will have three readers:
Click here to read more about Oxjam and here to go to the website for Apotheca.
The latest installment of Simon Taylor and The Other Room’s James Davies’ collaborative text and visual project Absolute Elsewhere is now online.
The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:
More TBA.
Tina Darragh talks to Tom Jenks at Bury Art Gallery, 30th June 2009.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Michael Haslam will be one of the readers at the next Other Room on 7th October. Get a taste of his work at the ever-excellent Penn Sound, which hosts a recording of Continual Song.
Red Shifts by Other Room Reader Maggie O’ Sullivan has been added to The Other Room library and is available for postal loan. Click here to browse the complete library stock list.
One for those of you who reside stateside.
September 12th
Saturday, 8 p.m.
at LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tina Darragh – Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.
Doug Lang – Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.
The first issue is out now, 112 pages in length and the contents are as follows:
EDITORIAL: Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard
Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns : Maggie
O’Sullivan’s excavations of Irish history
Mandy Bloomfield
Democratic consensus in J. H. Prynne’s Refuse Collection
Ian Davidson
Veronica Forrest-Thomson s Cordelia , tradition and
the Triumph of Artifice
Gareth Farmer
Expectant contexts : Corporeal and desiring spaces in
Denise Riley’s poetry
Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy
BOOK REVIEWS
Tony Lopez, Meaning Performance
Reviewed by Robert Sheppard
John Wilkinson, The Lyric Touch
Reviewed by Scott Thurston
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