
A rundown of recent publications, programmes, projects and performances from 2016 from the ever-busy SJ Fowler can be found here.

A rundown of recent publications, programmes, projects and performances from 2016 from the ever-busy SJ Fowler can be found here.
Card Alpha is a new online magazine for experimental poetry edited by Adam Hampson. Issue 1 is out now, featuring Bill Bulloch, Andrew Taylor, Iain Britton, John Seed, Gordon Gibson, Chris McCabe, Robert Sheppard, Sydney McNeill , Tom Jenks and Luke Thurogood.
Sarah Crewe and Nathan Jones. Friday 29th April.
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7.30 pm spot-on start!
Nathan Jones is a poet and writer based in Liverpool. His current work mixes technological forms of composition and production with autobiographical subject matter. He is currently PhD student at Royal Holloway University of London exploring the concept of “Glitch Poetics” and the impact of technology on contemporary poetry. He is also co-editor of mind-language-technology publisher Torque, and director of literature and performance agency Mercy 2003. His book length poem Noah’s Ark was published by Henningham Family Press. He also writes criticism for new media blog Furtherfield and Art Monthly. He is co-host of Storm and Golden Sky!
Sarah Crewe is from the Port of Liverpool. Her work focuses largely on working class feminist psychogeography. Her latest publication is urchin (dancing girl press 2016.) Previous chapbooks includeRWF/RAF,a collaboration with Pascal O’Loughlin,(Stinky Bear Press 2015) sea witch (Leafe Press,2014) andflick invicta (Oystercatcher,2012.) She collaborates frequently with Sophie Mayer and her work can be heard at the Archive of the Now website. She will be starting a Masters in Poetry:Innovative Practice and Research at the University of Kent in September.
Storm is run by Nathan Jones, Eleanor Rees, Michael Egan and Robert Sheppard.

New issue of the poetry foldable/printable ezine out now.
Wednesday 13 April, 8pm
Jack Nealons, 165 Capel Street, Dublin 1
Admission Free
Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, it aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation. For Phonica: Two, the curators will be joined by Fergus Kelly, James King, Paul Roe and Catherine Walsh to explore spaces between sound poetry, performance, new music, experimental poetics, invented instruments and collaboration. More here.

During 2016, an interactive installation version of Lucy Burnett’s hybrid novel, Through the Weather Glass (Knives Forks & Spoons 2015), is going on UK tour with the financial support of Arts Council England & Leeds Beckett University. Come join lead character Icarus on a Lewis Carrollian journey through the weather glass of climate change into the word beyond at one of three upcoming launch events:
19th April, The Kings Arms, Salford, 6.30 for 7pm – Launch & performance
20th April, Broadcasting Place, Leeds Beckett University, 5pm – Viewing & talk
21st April, Kava Café, Todmorden, 7pm – Viewing & participatory performance.
More here.
Rosanne Robertson will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 13th April. The other performers are Stuart Calton, Gary Fisher and Linda Kemp. Scroll down for previews of all three.
Rosanne Robertson is an artist based in Manchester from artist led space The Penthouse which she co founded and co runs. Working with performance, sculpture, assemblage and sound she explores tensions, anxieties and relationships between body, object and environment. Described by Dazed and Confused when selected by Doodlebug as one of the city’s ‘Emerging Ones’ as “working beneath the skin by any means possible”. Her work has been featured and released by The Wire and her live sound art series based from The Penthouse was described as “Elevating Manchester’s underground scene to the top floor of a tower block” by The Wire. Robertson’s solo residency project Risk Assessment at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art was reviewed by contemporary art journal Corridor 8. Robertson has performed and exhibited worldwide from group exhibition For Posterity at Castlefield Gallery (Manchester) and Inside Out/Next Generation at K11 Art Foundation (Wuhan, China) to residencies in New York with Sluice__ /Norte Maar (London/Brooklyn). Recent sound and performance commissions for Call & Response by CFCCA have seen Robertson perform at places such as The Whitworth Art Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry and John Rylands Library.
Robertson was recently awarded Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for her research and development project TOO MUCH exploring the contemporary condition of anxiety via forms of performance sculpture and sound with a special focus on women and ideas of anxieties induced by violent displacement of women’s power and forms of breaking through masculine oppression. More here.
The first ever English PEN Modern Literature Festival saw 30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world at Rich Mix, London, on April 2nd 2016. More here.

Inspired by the Turkish tongue-twister Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız (Are you one of those we tried to make to be originating from Czechoslovakia?), the poems in this chapbook take their titles from the English translations of long words in various languages. These are words that can (barely) be translated as: ‘For those who were repeatedly unable to pick enough of small wood-sorrels in the past’, ‘To the least able to be making less understandable’, ‘For your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated. More here.
Gary Fisher will perform at our next event on Wednesday 13th April. The other performers are Stuart Calton, Linda Kemp and Rosanne Robertson. Scroll down for previews of Stuart and Linda, with a preview of Rosanne to appear here in the next few days.
Gary Fisher is an artist and improviser who explores sounds, objects, actions, words and places through processes of experimentation and enquiry. He has made works for live radio, gallery installation, performance and published recordings. Central to the work is the on-going development of improvised playing, composing and recording practises exploring intersections between analogue and digital, acoustic and electronic, composed and accidental. He is particularly interested in using found sounds and materials, the amplification of objects and surfaces and site-specific responses.
After graduating from the University of Salford in 2008 with BA in Visual Arts and already focussing on sound, Gary went on to develop his work independently for a number of years before joining the Masters in Sound Arts programme chaired by David Toop at The London College of Communication and graduating in 2015.
Working solo and collaboratively Gary has created various live, recorded and site-based works including: the experimental radio broadcast The Inaugural Terminal Program on Resonance FM London with artists Barry Dean and Gilda Manfring; a group improvisation as YARD Collective in the 50th anniversary installation of Allan Kaprow’s YARD at The Hepworth Wakefield for David Toop and Rie Nakajima’s Sculpture series. In 2015 he played in an ensemble with Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, members of London Sinfonietta and CRISAP for Marclay’s major exhibition at White Cube London; during press week of Venice Biennale featured in Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market with Gilda Manfring and in collaboration with the School For Curatorial Studies Venice and during April 2015 Gary was artist in residence for Noise Above Noise at the Penthouse, Manchester. More here.
Small Po[r]tions is published by Letter [r] Press. The journal publishes short[er] work and multi/intermedia art. Each issue has a print component with a focus on book arts and an online component featuring selections from the print issue along with media work. Issue 6 out now.
The Found Poetry Review invites you to join IMPROMPTU, a thirty-day series of experimental writing prompts. A range of writers, including Amaranth Borsuk, Robert Fitterman, Nick Montfort and Other Room readers derek beaulieu and Craig Dworkin are involved, with a new prompt being posted very day. You are invited to write and share a poem in response. More details here.
Linda Kemp will perform at the next Other room on Wednesday 13th April, 7 pm start. The other performers will be Stuart Calton, Gary Fisher and Rosanne Robertson. Scroll down for a preview of Stuart and check back here over the next couple of weeks for previews of Gary and Rosanne.
Linda Kemp works with poetry. Publications include Immunological (2014) and Blueprint (2015) and an album, speaking towards (2015) with enjoy your homes press. Recent work can be found in Blackbox Manifold, Datableed, e∙ratio, Gorse, Lighthouse, M58, and Shearsman. As a free improviser her work can be heard as one third of the trio Piggle, one half of the duos soft architecture and Thermal Threshold, with other improvisers and solo. More here.
Stuart Calton will perform at the next Other Room on 13th April. For a flavour of his work, listen to Blepharospasms, above with more information about Stuart below and on his own website. The other performers are Gary Fisher, Linda Kemp and Rosanne Robertson. Previews of all three will appear here over the next few weeks.
Bio.: Stuart Calton is a poet based in Manchester. He is also the musician THF Drenching. His first few books were published by Barque Press in Brighton. The best Barque ones are “Three Reveries” (2010) and “The torn instructions for no trebuchet” (2013) which are kind of love poems that deal with clams, Goethe, Amiri Baraka, sex, Melanie Klein, the repetition compulsion and loss. His latest two books are self-published on own his imprint Drentpaper, part of his record label Council Of Drent. They are “Live At Late Dilated Ileum” (2015), a sequence about hernias, St Lucy of Syracuse, anality, a marmoset and several imaginary pubs, and his latest “Blepharospasms” (2016), which deals with dream interpretation, masochism, masculinity, Henri Rey, reparation, mania and 2Pac becoming a jellyfish. It also features an ill-tempered stream of abuse directed indiscriminately at all drone music. ENJOY HIS WORK.
North-West Poetry and Poetics Network, Wednesday April 20th 2016.
POETRY AND TRANSLATION
University of Salford, The Old Fire Station, 1.00 – 3.30 pm.
For queries, please contact: Professor Antony Rowland (a.rowland@mmu.ac.uk)

A treasure trove of new radical poetry about cricket and a series of specially commissioned illustrations. Perfect for cricket fans, all avantists and those who’ve longed to know the results of such unlikely comminglings. Contributors include: Tim Atkins; Oliver Baggott; Nia Davies; Ken Edwards; Gregorio Fontaine; Laura Foster Twigg; Chris Hall; John Hall; Alan Halsey; Ben Hickman; Jeff Hilson; Peter Hughes; Peter Jaeger; Antony John; Sarah Kelly; Tony Lopez; Chiaki Matsubayashi; Michaela Meise; Geraldine Monk; Montenegro Fisher; Jèssica Pujol; Andrew Spragg; Ed Suckling; Scott Thurston; Rhys Trimble; Carol Watts; Nick Whittock and Josephine Wood. Out now on Crater Press.