Steven Hitchins will read along with Bryony Bates and Amy McCauley at our next event on Tuesday 21st February at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. Free entry, as always. 7 PM start.
Steven Hitchins’ books include Bitch Dust (Boiled String, 2012), Real Radio (ctrl+alt+del, 2014), The White City (Aquifer, 2015) and Translating the Coal Forests (Singing Apple, 2015). He runs the Literary Pocket Book small press publishing contemporary experimental writing in miniature origami editions. More about this here.
This clip is of Steven reading at North Wales International Poetry Festival.
Fiender: Swedish Enemies in London – Rich Mix : Saturday January 28th 2017
Free entry 7.30pm – 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
www.theenemiesproject.com/fiender
Brand new collaborations of poetry and text for one night only, written by pairs of poets commissioned for this unique literary event. Visiting Swedish poets will present new works of avant-garde and literary poetry with their British counterparts alongside other ‘Camarade’ pairs especially for the evening.
Featuring: Aase Berg & SJ Fowler – Harry Man & Jonas Gren – Elis Burrau & Holly Corfield Carr – Kathryn Maris & Patrick Mackie – Fabian Peake & Jeff Hilson – Nick Murray & Joe Turrent – Prudence Chamberlain & Eley Williams – Hannah Lowe & Richard Scott – Annie Katchinska & Mark Waldron & more
Fiender: Swedish Enemies is multifaceted transnational collaborative poetry project engaging poets from both Sweden and the UK. Taking place in both nations across 2016 and 2017, Fiender is an ambitious, exploratory engagement with contemporary poets across Europe.
Curated by Harry Man and SJ Fowler, with curatorial assistance from Emanuel Holm and Madeleine Grive. Supported by Arts Council Sweden. www.theenemiesproject.com
Films from the second date of the North by North West Poetry Tour in Manchester are now online, including this performance by David Gaffney and Adrian Slatcher. Full list below.
Online now, with work from Nancy Gaffield, Amy Evans, Kelvin Corcoran, Elaine Jarvest Miller, Ralph Hawkins, Sheila Hamilton, Liz Adams, Linda Black, Mark Cunningham, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Mark Totterdell and Zoë Skoulding.
More details here.
Featuring new work from Sara Peters, Luke Kennard, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, R.A. Villanueva, Jane Yeh, Jennifer L. Knox, Jeff Hilson, Rachel Long, Matthew Welton and Sara Peters. Read it here.
Some new books / plays / courses / exhibitions / events for the first half of the year upcoming.
New Publications
The Guide to Being Bear Aware : a new poetry collection published by Shearsman Books. Launched at York Literature Festival on March 29th, Kingston Writing School April 5th, Arnolfini in Bristol on April 6th and in London, at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, on April 11th www.stevenjfowler.com/bearaware
I fear my best work behind me : my debut art book – art brut portraiture, abstract illustration and handwritten poems, published by Stranger Press. May 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/ifear
Subcritical Tests with Ailbhe Darcy – A full length collaborative collection of poetry and one of the first titles, and the very first poetry book, to be published by Gorse. Summer 2017. www.stevenjfowler.com/subcriticaltests
The Words Moving : poems on cinema – Limited edition poetry collection, each poem responding to a film, from The Devils to Angel Heart, from Salo to Jurassic Park, published by Pyramid Editions. Summer 2017 www.stevenjfowler.com/wordsmoving
Theatre
Mayakovsky As part of Rich Mix’s programme exploring the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new experimental play on Vladimir Mayakovsky. Performed alongside new works by playwrights Petra Freimund, Larry Lynch and others. www.stevenjfowler.com/mayakovsky
Courses
Inventing Rauschenberg at Tate Modern – Exploring the life and legacy of Robert Rauschenberg, with a course following his innovative and wide ranging practise connected to the exhibition ongoing. 20 Feb – 20 March – Monday evenings : 18.45–20.45, in the galleries at Tate Modern. Booking here.
Exhibitions
Worm Wood with Tereza Stehlikova – A collaborative exhibition at Kensal Green Cemetery Dissenter’s Chapel and Gallery running 100 days from May to September 2017. Featuring new works of video, text art and installation, the exhibition will feature an event programme, including guided walks and workshops, exploring disappearing west London. www.stevenjfowler.com/wormwood
Visual Poetry at Museum of Futures : February 18th to March 5th. A group show of new visual and concrete poetry, text art and avant-garde sculpture, drawing in artists and poets from South West London for the exhibition in Surbiton. http://www.theenemiesproject.com/futures
Curatorial
North x North West Poetry Tour : Visiting six cities across January and February, this tour of collaborative ‘Camarade’ events will draw in dozens of poets from across the region, endemic of the resurgence of avant-garde and literary poetry in the north of England in the last decade plus. New collaborations between myself and Chris McCabe, Amy Cutler, Nathan Walker & more. Curated with Tom Jenks. Supported by Arts Council England. www.theenemiesproject.com/northwest
Fiender: Swedish Enemies – January 28th at Rich Mix: Free
20 poets present 10 brand new collaborations to celebrate the visit of some of Sweden’s, and Europe’s most interesting writers. A new collaboration with Aase Berg, alongside poets including Elis Burrau & Holly Corfield Carr, Kathryn Maris & Patrick Mackie, Annie Katchinska & Mark Waldron. Curated with Harry Man. Supported by Arts Council Sweden. www.theenemiesproject.com/fiender
University Camarade II – February 25th at Rich Mix: Free
The University Camarade asks pairs of creative writing students from different Universities in the UK to collaborate on short new works of poetry or text, for performance. The second event in the series features students from Kingston University, Oxford Brookes, York St John, Kent, Essex, York and Royal Holloway www.theenemiesproject.com/unicamarade
English PEN Modern Literature Festival – April 1st at Rich Mix : Free
30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. The festival continues English PEN’s relationship with innovative contemporary literature over an extraordinary day. The 2017 festival will feature Denise Riley, Hannah Silva, Sandeep Parmar, Vahni Capildeo, Luke Kennard, Nathan Jones, Tony White, Matthew Welton, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Sasha Dugdale & many others. www.theenemiesproject.com/englishpen
The Winter 2016 issue 17 of Blackbox Manifold is out now, with work by Linda Anderson, Tom Betteridge, Adam Burbage, Stephen Burt, James Byrne, Sophie Collins, Joey Connolly, Adam Flint, Jane Goldman, Thomas Kelly, Chris Kerr, Eric Langley, Dorothy Lehane, Tan Lin, Jaki McCarrick, Gail McConnell, Joseph Minden, Ian Patterson, Robert Sheppard, Ronnie Sirmans, Oliver Southall, Matthew Sweeney, Charles Tarlton, Ken Taylor, Jonty Tiplady, Samuel Tongue. John Tamplin interviews Keston Sutherland, Peter Larkin reviews Peter Riley, and Adam Piette reviews the new Eliot, Denise Riley, Charlotte Newman, and essays on J.H. Prynne. Read it here.
Saturday 28th January, upstairs in Waterstones’, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BW. Richard Barrett reads from LOVE LIFE!, out now on Stranger Press. Gareth Twose reads from Sven Types of Terrorism out now on KFS. Free entry, 4 PM start.
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour visits Edge Hill University on Thursday 19th January with performances by Robert Sheppard & Joanne Ashcroft, Luke Thurogood & Brendan Quinn, Martin Palmer & Laura Tickle, Jessica Tillings & Jazmine Linklater, Adam Hampton & Matt Fallaize, James Byrne & Cathy Butterworth, Mark Greenwood & Johnathan Hartley, Tom Jenks & Tim Allen, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell and Amy Cutler & Nathan Walker. More here.
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The second date of the tour is in Manchester on Saturday 14th January at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester, M1 5BY with performances by Richard Barrett & Tim Allen, Helmut Lemke & Tony Trehy, SJ Fowler & Tom Jenks, Chris McCabe & Amy Cutler, Patricia Farrell & Nathan Walker, Alec Newman & Rachel Sills, Ben Knight & Ben Morris, Bryony Bates & Gareth Twose, Sarah-Claire Conlon & Fat Roland, David Gaffney & Adrian Slatcher, Lauren Bolger & Joey Frances, Matt Dalby & Steven Waling, Luke Allan & Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir and Jazmine Linklater & Jessica Tillings. More here.
A celebration of Tommy Peeps/Linus Slug/ all things Mendoza with contributions by Sarah Crewe, Amy Evans, Catherine Hales, Edmund Hardy, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, Peter Jaeger, Tom Jenks, Antony John, Dorothy Lehane, Chris Mccabe, Fabian Macpherson, Peter Manson, Camilla Nelson, Pascal O’Loughlin, Maggie O’Sullivan, Richard Parker, Kat Peddie, Nat Raha, Scott Thurston, Rhys Trimble and James Wilkes. More here.
The North by North West Poetry Tour comprises over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. The tour kicks off on Friday 13th February at York City Screen, 13-17 Coney St, York, YO1 9QL with performances by JT Welsch & Kimberly Campanello, SJ Fowler & Amy Cutler, Tom Jenks & Nathan Walker, Chris McCabe & Patricia Farrell, Abi Curtis & Julie Egdell, Dave Spittle & Harry Man, Bill Herbert & Colin Herd and Melony Bethala & David Steans. More here.
A long and interesting list, with mentions for Other Room readers Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Peter Hughes, Alistair Noon, Michelle Naka Pierce,.Eléna Rivera and Rachel Sills. More here.
New pamphlet from Other Room reader Sam Riviere, out now on After Hours Ltd.
Gradually unfolding over the last seven months, Other Room reader Mike Weller’s Spurious Purple has been one of the pleasures of 2016. Mike has now collated the project into two volumes, nos.000-033 and nos.033⅓-072.
Made up of 7 A4 pages printed and folded by the artist and housed in an A6 box ‘I am knot…a. poster in pieces of POWER’ is available in a signed and numbered limited edition of 30 from Ambergris Editions.
The North by North West Poetry Tour features over sixty poets collaborating in pairs to produce brand new collaborative works for performance, commissioned for each event, over six nights in January and February 2017. Poets local to each of the six venues will perform on each night alongside a core group of touring poets, who will perform at every venue. All events are free. More here.
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