New book from Other Room reader Rachel Sills out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Tom Jenks
Leanne Bridgewater: Confessions of a Cyclist
Other Room reader Leanne Bridgewater’s first collection of experimental poetry, out now on Knives Forks and Spoons.
Blackbox Manifold #15
Editors Adam Piette & Alex Houen at Blackbox Manifold are pleased to announce the launch of its fifteenth issue, with work by Chris Andrews, Tara Bergin, Rob Burton, James Coghill, Christopher Cokinos, Adam Day, Darren Demaree, Mark Greenwood, David Hadbawnik, Alan Halsey, Amaan Hyder, Peter Larkin, Agnes Lehoczky, Sophie Mayer, Drew Milne, Helen Moore, Geraldine Monk, Christopher Mulrooney, Burgess Needle, Eleanor Perry, Cal Revely-Calder, Mike Saunders & Todd Swift. The issue also features a section on the poetic sequence, with essays by Charles Bernstein (“Reznikoff’s Nearness”), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (“Some Interpretive Puzzles within Seriality”), Alan Halsey (“Some Possibly Connected Remarks on Sequences”) & Robin Purves (“The Value of Inconsistency: John Wilkinson and ‘Facing Port Talbot’”). Adam Piette reviews the work of Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni and Attila Dósa reviews Edwin Morgan’s letters, edited by James McGonigal & John Coyle. More here.
Not a British Subject: Race and Poetry in the UK
“A mostly white poetic establishment prevails over a patronizing culture that presents minority poets as exceptional cases — to be held at arm’s length like colonial curiosities in an otherwise uninterrupted tradition extending back through a pure and rarefied language.” Other Room reader Sandeep Parmar writes on race and poetry in the UK at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Norwich Camarade
Films from the special Camarade event, curated in collaboration with Writers’ Centre Norwich and UEA Creative Writing department are now online, including this performance by Doug Jones and Owen Vince.
FENCE
Winter/Spring 2015 issue out now, featuring this by John Ashbery and work by Other Room reader Jeff Hilson. More here.
The Curly Mind
Linguistically innovative online poetry magazine, including Alphabetical Adlestrop by Mark Totterdell:
A Adlestrop, Adlestrop afternoon,
all and, and and, and and, and and, and and,
and bare, because birds, blackbird,
by came, cleared close.
Cloudlets drew dry, express fair.
Farther, farther for Gloucestershire grass,
haycocks, heat high. Him his hissed.
I, I in it, June, late, left less lonely.
Meadowsweet minute. Mistier name, name.
No, no, no, of of on one, one, one
only Oxfordshire platform, remember round.
Sang. Saw someone. Sky. Steam still than that.
The the the the the the the the;
there, throat train! Unwontedly up
was, was what? Whit? Willow? Willow-herb?
Yes!
More here.
Strange Country: Poetry by Kimberly Campanello
Kimberly Campanello’s new collection is an exciting new work, that through the theme of the mythical Sheela na gig, explores the light and dark of Modern Ireland. Out now on The Penny Dreadful.
An Educated Desire: for Robert Sheppard at 60
Scott Thurston has edited a festschrift in celebration of Robert Sheppard’s sixtieth birthday, out now on Knives Forks and Spoons and available to buy for the reduced price of £10 until the end of December.
Knives Forks and Spoons: pop-up reading
The KFS pop-up reading series continues at 13:00 on the 12th of December 2015 in the public area of St Helens Central Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. The readers are Tom Jenks and Ann Matthews, who will be reading from her new book, Losing Boundaries.
Chris McCabe: two new publications
Mud is a version of the Orpheus myth involving a fake wizard, a camera crew, scallops that can speak and tonnes of mud. Out now as an ebook on Galley Beggar Press.
The Dedalus Poems, visual poems, inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses. Read more about it here.
Xing the Line: Harriet Tarlo and Frances Presley
Thursday 3 December 2015, 7.30, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1. £5/£3. Nearest Tube: Farringdon, Chancery Lane or buses from Holborn and King’s Cross.
European Camarade videos
Films from the November 25th event pairing British poets with visiting writers from Slovakia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Austria, Hungary, Norway and more are now online, including this from Gabriele Labanauskaite and Camilla Nelson.
A winters night, drinks in the forest
17 December, 18:30–21:30, The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London. Listening Forest exhibition viewing, with a chance to hear poems from fabulous guest poets, drink mulled wine, mull over stuff, buy books, screenprints, original drawings. More here.
Forrest Gander in conversation, with Oscar Martín Centeno
Wed, 25 Nov 2015, 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. Free, booking required.
Writer and translator Forrest Gander is concerned largely with the way the self is revised and translated in encounters with the foreign. His book Core Samples From the World was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Recent translations include Watchword by Pura López Colomé and, with Kyoko Yoshida, Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2012. In conjunction with the University of Liverpool Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and supported by HLC.
The Centre for New and International Writing presents: Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2015
Óscar Martín Centeno & Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.
Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and travelled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.
Óscar Martín Centeno
Óscar Martín Centeno holds a degree in History and Music Sciences by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2006 he received the prize “Premio Internacional Florentino Pérez-Embid” by Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras for his first book Espejos enfrentados, published by Rialp publishing house in the collection Adonais. In 2007 he received the prize “Premio Nacional Nicolás del Hierro” for his second book Las cántigas del diablo, published the same year. In 2007 he obtained the prize “Premio Internacional Paul Beckett” for his third book Sucio tango del alma, published in 2008 by la Fundación Valparaíso. He has published two teaching manuals: Manual de creación literaria en la era de Internet (2009) and Animación a la lectura mediante las nuevas tecnologías (2010).
– See more at: http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3190#sthash.9hOJcl6w.dpuf
Robert Sheppard: History or Sleep – Selected Poems
Robert Sheppard’s selection draws on every book of his poetry since Returns (1985) through to Words Out of Time (2015), and is designed to sample both the recurring and developing themes of his work and their restlessly changing forms. Out now on Shearsman.
Storm and Golden Sky: Sandeep Parmar and Robert Sheppard
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!
FRIDAY 27th November 2015
Sandeep Parmar and Robert Sheppard
(with a short reading by Adam Hampton)
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham in 1979 and was raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008 on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is the Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine and edited The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). Her critical book on Loy, Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2013. She teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Liverpool. Her books are Eidolon and The Marble Orchard, both from Shearsman.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/staff/sandeep-parmar
Robert Sheppard is launching two books tonight, his new History or Sleep: Selected Poems, which covers the full range of his work since 1982, and his autrebiographies, Words Out of Time. He lives in Liverpool, is one of the organisers of Storm and Golden Sky, and is also a literary critic of work generally known as ‘linguistically innovative’. He teaches at Edge Hill University.
‘Not memory but a work’: Eric Mottram after 20 Years: addendum
More details about this 19th – 21st November event in the Court Room at Senate House, London which we previously posted about here:
Friday 20th November, 6.30-8.00: Poetry Reading beginning with a Guest Appearance by Paula Claire, presenting the 2 poems she created for Eric Mottram at her Kings Reading 27 Feb 1979 and leading a performance of Mottram’s Precipice of Fishes an aleatory multi-voice piece created for Writers Forum in October 1979. She will be followed by Bill Sherman, Ulli Freer. Gavin Selerie and others.
Soundings #3
Soundings is a series of collaborative performances presented by SJ Fowler between August 2015 to October 2016, in conjunction with Hubbub and the Wellcome Library. There will be ten editions, each in a different location in and around London, each with a different collaborator. Number 3 in the series is a performance with Maja Jantar at St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA, Wednesday 18th November, 7 PM start. More about this and the Soundings series in general here.
Datableed issue 2
Anthony John, Bruno Neiva, Calum Gardner, Carleen Tibbetts, Dorothy Lehane, Ed Luker, Emilia Weber, Emilie Dufresne, Florence Uniacke, Haley Jenkins, Lawrence Uziell, Linda Kemp, Lisa Jayne, Luke Blake, Map 71 (Lisa Jayne & Andy Pyne), Mike Saunders, Naomi Weber, Nathan Walker, Rachel Warriner, Sarah Crewe, Sarah Rupp, Shana Bulhan Haydock, Sophie Mayer, Vicky Sparrow and Wanda O’Connor, here.
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