a, by Sophie Robinson, is now out from Les Figues Press.
Via Openned.
Tom Jenks
Futurists, Vorticists, Imagists: where are the manifesto writers today?
“Whatever happened to manifestos? There was a time, 100 years ago, when you couldn’t open a paper without seeing a litany of avant-garde statements, or a crazily idealistic declaration of political attitudes, or a sternly numbered list of arty Dos and Donts, as portentous as the Ten Commandments. Writers, poets, sculptors, artists and freelance visionaries would meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant or stay up all night in bordellos, thrashing out their stroppy jeremiads like kidnappers writing ransom notes. They may have been a few elephants short of the full zoo, but by God they were passionate.”
The Other Room Library
The Other Room has a small but beautifully formed collection of publications that are available for loan. For more about this new project, click here.
Cutting Room Experiment – phase 2
The next phase of the innovative Cutting Room Experiment has been announced, with the winning ideas and schedule going up on the website.
An evening of poets and texts
- what: An evening of poets and texts
- when: Friday 12 June 2009, 07:30
- where: Bury Art Gallery, Moss St., Bury
An evening of experiment and challenge in the company of Japan-based Jesse Glass, Nick Thurston, Sarah Tremlett and Judy Kendall.
Salt Publishing – 33% off
As part of the Saving Salt Publishing campaign, Salt are offering 33% off all books bought via their website in June. To get your discount, use the coupon code G3SRT453 when in the checkout.
mid)rib issue 3
Issue 3 of the excellent US journal mid)rib is now online, edited by Andy Martrich and Gordon Faylor, featuring work from:
- Michael Basinski
- Jason LaBarr
- Marie Buck
- Maria Damon
- Philip Dmochowski
- Lola Galla
- Manta Gimzauskas
- Ara Shirinyan
- Jenny Sampirisi
- Rodrigo Toscano
- Sara Wintz
The Other Room 7 in pictures
The April 1st 2009 evening marked the first year of The Other Room. You can’t have a birthday without cake and we didn’t. Click on the picture of Mr. Richard Barrett’s bespoke artefact as elegantly gripped by the man himself to see more.
Richard Makin – Rift Designs
Published: May 09 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF.
Read an extract from this evolving and engaging sequence, coursesy of Openned.
Matt Dalby
Two tasters for Matt’s performance at The Other Room on 3rd June: watch the clip below of Matt recorded at Poets and… in April 2009 or click here to listen to Matt at Freed Up Poets in July 2008.
Croy Devenish-Phibbs
Silliman on Quietude
“The surprise is not that the School of Quietude is ruthless in its practice of power politics. That has been its hallmark forever – beginning with a century-long pretense that it represents the whole of poetry, rather than just an anti-modernist / premodernist sliver within a far larger spectrum. No, the surprise is that the SoQ is so very bad at it.”
Ron Silliman on the School of Quietude and the Oxford University Professor of Poetry controversy.
Alex Davies – LONDONSTONE
Alex will be reading at the next Other Room on 3rd June. Click below to access an extract from his ongoing project LONDONSTONE.
Streetcake issue 5
Online now, featuring work by:
- Sean Burn
- Stephanie Codsi
- Trini Decombe
- Nikki Dudley
- Kyle Hemmings
- P.A. Levy
- Anna Mckerrow
- Angela Readman
- Sarah Shaheen
- Lora Stimson
Allen Fisher reading Quietly Random at Matchbox
Allen will be performing at the next Other Room on 3rd June. As a taster, try this clip recorded at James Davies’ Matchbox event in 2007.
The Arthur Shilling Press
The Arthur Shilling Press is intended to be a small press for the emerging innovative poets of England, creating chap books and pamphlets for non-profit distribution. It is run by the poet Harry Godwin.
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Richard Barrett at Manchester Central Library
A reminder that Other Room reader Richard Barrett is reading as part of the second farewell evening for Manchester poetry magazine The Ugly Tree. Thursday 28 May, from 6.00pm. Free. Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. An insider reveals that Ringroad, as featured in The Other Room Anthology, may be given an airing.
Matt Dalby – Whisper
Other Room performer Matt Dalby is releasing a CD-R of sound poetry every month throughout 2009. June’s release, Whisper, will be on sale at Matt’s Other Room performance on 3rd June. Get your hands on this and the previous five to keep you in your old age.
Richard Makin
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