The latest issue of the excellent Streetcake magazine is now online, featuring:
- John Patrick Ayson
- Jennifer Edgecombe
- Harry Godwin
- Colin Herd
- Heller Levinson
- Ryan Ormonde
- Wayne Wolfson
- Michael Zand
Tom Jenks
Sean Bonney – Document
Sean Bonney will read (along with Frances Kruk) at The Other Room on 5th August. His latest book is available from Barque Press. Read about it on his own Abandoned Building blog. site.
Whatever happened to the avant garde?
Blast, counterblast and rumblings. Catch up with the debate surrounding Robert McCrum’s recent Guardian article via the Openned site.
Early Bernstein at Penn Sound
“In the mid-70s, I made a number of audiotape works, some of which were collected and published as Class. Working with Danny Snelson, and in collaboration with Ubu, I have now made a PennSound page of these works. The PennSound page also includes the restored stereo cuts from Class, which I haven’t listed here. All of the works listed here are being released for the first time.”
Via the Charles Bernstein weblog.
Absolute Elsewhere
The latest instalment of this unfolding collaborative project between James Davies and Simon Taylor (together known as Joy As Tiresome Vandalism) is now online.
Publications received
The following publications have been added to The Other Room library and are available for loan:
- [ lapsed insel weary ]; Susana Gardner; the tangentpress, 2008.
- ab ovo :; Jenn McCreary; Dusie Press; 2009.
- the butterflies and the burnings; Anne Blonstein; Dusie Press; 2009.
- in the bird museum; Kristy Bowen; Dusie Press; 2009.
Thanks to Susana Gardner of Dusie Press for donating these books.
Click here to browse the other books in the library.
Listening for the Concrake
Following his fascinating talk at the Corridor8 launch at Urbis, you can download Iain Sinclair’s audio commentary on his walk across Manchester from the Urbis site.
Matt Dalby – Tragic Body
The seventh of Matt Dalby’s 12 CD-R releases for 2009 is now complete and will be available shortly. Read more about Matt’s project to produce a CD of sound poetry every month throughout 2009 on his site.
ekleksographia #2
“Ekleksographia is an exercise in asymmetrical publishing, and is a shoe (or even two!) thrown at the spotlit shrug and yawn.” Issue 2 out now, featuring:
- Diana Adams
- Anny Ballardini
- Dan Boehl
- Linh Dinh
- Erica Miriam Fabri
- Adam Fieled
- Ossian Foley
- Maya Funaro
- Niels Hav, trans. by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen
- Dan Hoy
- Amy King
- Nicholas Manning
- Gina Myers
- Obododimma Oha
- Maya Pindyck
- Tomaž Šalamun, trans. with Michael Thomas Taren
- Evie Shockley
- Sampson Starkweather
- Chris Vitiello
- Cynthia Arrieu-King with Hillary Gravendyk
- Jeanne Marie Beaumont
- Alexander Dickow
- Tomas Ekström
- Farrah Field
- Annie Finch
- Jennifer H. Fortin
- Heather Green
- Scott Hightower
- Dorta Jagić, trans. by Ana Božičević
- Tony Mancus
- Miguel Murphy
- Keith Newton
- Daniela Olszewska
- Matthew Rotando
- Barry Schwabsky
- Lytton Smith
- Rohith Sundararaman
- David Wolach
LONDON§TONE – Alex Davies
Alex’s fantastic reading at The Other Room in June featured extracts from the ever-evolving behemoth LONDON§TONE. Download it now from the Openned site.
Corridor8/Iain Sinclair
“Join us in Manchester on 16 July as we launch Corridor8 with an exclusive talk by the British author, essayist and psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair.
To accompany the launch, Sinclair has conducted a walk through Manchester — a meandering, poetic journey designed to shed new light on a city at once ancient and contemporary. Taking a route from Urbis to the edge of the city, Sinclair saw ghosts and alchemists, geographers and ‘discreet medics’, a road that turned into ‘a river of human traffic’ and pockets of green where wildlife flourished in a way it never could in the ‘toxic run-off from Olympic piracy’ in London.
On 16 July, Sinclair relives this walk in a talk given at its starting point: Urbis. This is an opportunity to meet one of Britain’s leading psychogeographers, and to find out why he has been tempted to write about the North of England for the first time. This part of the launch is strictly limited to 100 places and is now almost sold out.”
The Last Temptation of Thurston
Photographs from Treading Water, an al fresco performance by Elizabeth Willow and The Other Room’s Scott Thurston at Otterspool Park, Liverpool.
Steve Willey – Openned
Steve Willey is reading at the next The Other Room on August 5th. Read all about him and follow the links to his work on the Openned site.
Frances Kruk – Dark Mucus
Frances Kruk will be reading at the August 5th The Other Room. Explore her work here on her blog Dark Mucus.
Halsey and Monk at Ledbury
4.15pm – 5.15pm, 10 July. Burgage Hall. £8
“Alan Halsey will talk about his latest work, the Lives of the Poets, which he has been working on for the past eight years. As the typical literary biography gets heavier and denser, Halsey’s 191 lives take the opposite approach: each Life is a poem distilled in a few highly-concentrated lines. The famous (Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Pope) appear alongside the lesser known and many forgotten poets, including a large number of women, are saluted. Geraldine Monk is an electrifying performer of her poetry, which has appeared in many anthologies and maps the places she has lived with a visceral intensity, as if places possess her. This will be an event full of discoveries and contrasts.”
Shadowtrain
Issue 29 of Shadowtrain is now online featuring:
- Rupert M Loydell
- Angeline Farrow
- Martin Stannard
- Peter Hughes
- Keith Hilling
- Carole Coates
- Lia Brooks
- Libby Hart
- Nathan Thompson
- Rufo Quintavalle
- Ian McMillan on Gavin Selerie
Knives, Forks and Spoons
More information about Richard Barrett’s new imprint and the writers launching it. Check it out.
Jeremy Deller – Procession
“Celebrate the launch weekend of MIF by lining the Deansgate mile to witness a free and uniquely Mancunian procession, created by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.”
The Commons II
The second instalment of The Commons by Sean Bonney (who will be reading at The Other Room in August) is available now in pdf form on Openned Press. Highly recommended.
The Other Room 9 – review
Thanks to Matt Dalby for this review of the Tina Darragh and P.Inman reading on 1st July.
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