Tom Jenks

The Blue Bus

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry by Jane Augustine, Michael Heller and David Miller on Tuesday the 17th November from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the 106th event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Michael Heller has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction. His most recent book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (2012). A new collection, Diánoia, is forthcoming in 2016. A book of essays on his work, The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory, has just appeared. His many awards and honors include the Di Castagnola Prize, NEH Poet/Scholar Award and The Fund for Poetry.

Jane Augustine is a poet, critic, short story writer, visual/sound poetry performance artist, and scholar of women in modernity, with five poetry books, the latest Krazy: Visual Poems and Performance Scripts (2015). Editor of The Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text and The Mystery by H.D., she has held the H.D. Fellowship at Yale, has taught at N.Y.U. and Naropa University, Boulder, and is professor emerita Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She lives in Manhattan.

David Miller was born in Melbourne (Australia) in 1950, and has lived in London (UK) since 1972. His more recent publications include The Dorothy and Benno Stories (Reality Street Editions, 2005), In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007), Black, Grey and White: A Book of Visual Sonnets (Veer Books, 2011) and Reassembling Still: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2014). He has compiled British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of ‘Little Magazines’ (with Richard Price, The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2006) and edited The Lariat and Other Writings by Jaime de Angulo (Counterpoint, 2009) and The Alchemist’s Mind: a book of narrative prose by poets (Reality Street, 2012). Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) appeared from Chax Press in 2011, and a double CD recording of David Miller reading this same work came out from LARYNX in 2012. He is also a musician and a member of the Frog Peak Music collective. His most recent publication is Spiritual Letters (Series 6), published by Shearsman in 2015.

Pugilistica: celebrating boxing poetry

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Held on November 4th 2015, in the extraordinary environs of http://www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica brought together poets, academics, writers, artists and photographers to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. It featured fiction from Anna Whitwham, poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who presented his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’ The event also saw the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition. More at the Enemies Project site.

CAESURA #35

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13 November, 19:30. Summerhall – Red Lecture Theatre,  1 Summerhall,  Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. 7:30 doors for 8pm start. £5/£4 concessions

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MacGILLIVRAY

MacGillivray has walked in a straight line with a dead wolf on her shoulders through the back streets of Vegas into the Nevada desert, eaten broken chandelier glass in a derelict East German shopping mall, headbanged in gold medieval stocks in Birmingham allotments, burnt on a sunbed wearing conquistador armour in Edinburgh’s underground city, breast-fed a Highland swan in Oxford and regurgitated red roses in Greenland.

She remains clan chief.

DAVID KEENAN

David Keenan is an author and critic based in Glasgow.

For the past 19 years he has been a contributor to The Wire magazine. His writing has also appeared in Mojo, Uncut, NME, Melody Maker, The Sunday Herald, Opprobrium, Ugly Things, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal and Firm ‘n’ Fruity.

Between 2004 and 2014 he was co-director of Volcanic Tongue, a shop, mail order service and weekly online newsletter that was dedicated to boosting new underground sounds.

He is the author of England’s Hidden Reverse, a secret history of the UK’s post-Industrial music scene via Coil, Nurse With Wound and Current 93, republished in 2015 in an expanded edition by Strange Attractor Press.

Strange Attractor will also publish his debut novel, The Comfort Of Women, in early 2016, which he will be reading from tonight.

ANNIE HIGGEN

Annie Higgen is a Glasgow-based poet and sound artist.

Previously working as a singer-songwriter, she gradually moved to poetry and more experimental sound art and finished her MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway in 2014.

Annie likes to write about politics, social issues, and our strange and wonderful virtual lives. She has exhibited her sound works in galleries in Glasgow and Edinburgh and also contributed to the CCA’s temporary radio station Radiophrenia in April 2015.

Her latest project is a year-long poetry blog based on the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry.

CIARAN HEALY

Ciaran Healy is a philosopher.

For 20 years he has been investigating possibilities for changing human nature. His work contains elements from neuroscience, anthropology, evolutionary theory and Western and Eastern philosophy.

It is based on the idea that powerful change that people can trigger inside themselves can spread peer-to-peer through communication networks, and this opens up a new and undefended angle from which to spark global revolution.

In 2014 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Arts.

Holly Pester at Edge Hill

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11th November: Holly Pester

At The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

7.30

£4.50 Tickets available on the door.

Holly Pester is a poet, critic and practice-based researcher. Her doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London examined the poetics of noise and sound media-driven poetry. Her current research seeks to develop innovative practice-led research methodologies in relation to feminist archive theory. Her book on gossip and anecdote as forms of archive enquiry was published by Book Works, 2015 and was developed through a residency at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College’s Special Collections with Arts Council England support. She currently teaches on Oulipo & the Avant-Garde and Poetic Practice at University of Essex.

Warm up by students of the MA I n Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, curated by Professor Robert Sheppard.

Place Waste Dissent: cut-up poetry/art exhibition

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12 November – 10 December. The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol,  BS1 3RU.

An exhibition of cut-up poetry and art from the new collection, Place Waste Dissent, by Paul Hawkins, out Nov 12th, pre-order here http://www.influxpress.com/place-waste-dissent/#.Vip_f6IkNE4

Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road.

Using the voices of Dolly Watson, Old Mick and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.

From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.

The collage is taken from photographs by Julia Guest, Maureen Measure, Steve Ryan, Sarer Scotthorne, Susan Worth and personal photographs by Paul. On each page of the book the text and images have been cut and pasted by hand by Paul, and, in a long sequence of text/image called Flea, by poet Sarer Scotthorne.

‘This is not so much a book as an archive, a dataset or a dossier of evidence. At times reminiscent of Tom Phillips’ A Humument with its jump cut juxtapositions, liminal layers and luminous word wiring, Place Waste Dissent is nonetheless an utterly distinctive poetic document, weaving text and image to create a wakeful dream state of white noise, static and flux.’ Tom Jenks

website: https://placewastedissent.wordpress.com/
twitter: @PlayWDissent
http://hesterglock.com/

Long Poem Magazine issue 14 launch

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11 November, 8:00–21:00. Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS. Hosted by Linda Black and Lucy Hamilton. Readers: Yang Lian, Salah Niazi, Terence Dooley, Saradha Soobrayen, Mario Petrucci, Dorothy Lehane, Madeleine Wurzburger, Frances Presley, Ingar Palmlund, John Mccullough, Joe Dresner, Simon Jenner, Patricia McCarthy

Fidelities, Ian Seed

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Ian Seed says of Fidelities, ‘The poems here range from the lyrical to the more experimental, but I think that they all probe and explore a series of encounters and journeys.  I see them as being faithful, “in their fashion”, to the truths they discover along the way’. This collection enacts an excursive articulation of the world and language, the shifts and creative repetitions found in both, between words and inside words, between moments and within moments: each poem finding its distinct poetic imperative to reveal these moves in the landscape in complex and subtle ways. The rhythms of these poetic journeys involve but also exceed the sonic; here is the shaping of the space and time of attention, a focus and intimacy that situates and then opens up, and into, our embodied encounters with the phenomenal world; here is presence, and reflection on presence and on being present. This is language as an eye that sees and a hand that touches and shapes, but also as ‘skin listening’. ‘We do not see from our bodies as from inside /a box. We pertain to the whole, we take our place /in the landscape, in the touching of the sleek and rough.’”
Patricia Farrell

Out now on The Red Ceilings.

Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing

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November 4th at Apiary Studios : 7.30pm – Free entrance.
458 Hackney Rd, London E2 9EG 
www.theenemiesproject.com/pugilistica

Held in the extraordinary environs of www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica will bring together poets, academics, writers, artists and journalists to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. Featuring:

Fiction from Anna Whitwham, Poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who will present his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’

The event will see the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition.

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #15 – Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk, Harriet Tarlo

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An afternoon of experimental poetry

Featuring Alan Halsey, Tom Jenks, Geraldine Monk & Harriet Tarlo.

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Free entry, all welcome. Wine.

Upstairs at Deansgate Waterstones. 4pm. Saturday 7 November.

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Alan Halsey will be reading from his Versions of Martial, published earlier this year by Knives Forks & Spoons. His back catalogue includes The Text of Shelley’s Death (Five Seasons 1995), Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005) and Rampant Inertia (Shearsman 2015). Images he developed out of Dee & Kelley’s Enochian transcripts form the graphic component of Nigel Wood’s From the Diaries of John Dee, recently published by Apple Pie Editions. ‘Halsey’s publications bolt around the field like a deranged beagle’ (Ray Davis, Pseudopodium).

Tom Jenks’ latest collection is Spruce, published by Blart Books. Other works include Items, a 1000 fragment sequence published by if p then q, The Tome of Commencement, a spreadsheet translation of the Book of Genesis published by Stranger Press and 1000 Proverbs, a guide to modern life and manners with SJ Fowler, published by Knives Forks and Spoons. He administers the avant obects imprint zimZalla and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website

Geraldine Monk was first published in the 1970’s. Her poetry has appeared extensively in the U.K. and USA. Her latest book They Who Saw The Deep will be published next year in the USA by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. She is an affiliated poet to the Centre of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield.

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990-2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), Poems 2004-2014 (Shearsman, 2015) Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005) and 2 artists books, Sound Unseen and behind land with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy, 2013, 2015). Her academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English Journal of Ecocriticism; Classical Receptions and Yellow Field. Exhibitions of texts, in collaboration with Jem Southam and Judith Tucker, have appeared at The Lowry, Salford, Tullie House, Carlisle; Musee de Moulages, Lyon and The University of Minneapolis. She edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 Vol 3: No 2 and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman 2011). She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University

The Wolf

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An exclusive interview with Kelvin Corcoran. Niall McDevitt on David Gascoyne. Tom Jenks reviews Chris McCabe. John Kinsella on re-imagining place. Mexican Poetry feature. Patricia Farrell as Artist in Residence. Poems from Yang Lian, Michelle Cahill, Ellen Hinsey and much more. Out now.

Materials reading series – Danny Hayward

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The thirteenth reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Saturday 24th October in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 7 for 7.30pm. This is the launch event for DANNY HAYWARD’s book ‘Pragmatic Sanction’.

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Danny Hayward is the author of People (Mountain Press, 2013) and Two Essays: Best and Worst in Poetry / Perfect Capitalism (Veer, 2012). His essays include ‘Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 – July 2011’ and ‘John Maynard Nothing’ in Mute (2012), and ‘The Essential Standpoint of Man: An Autopsy, in Three Parts’ in World Picture Journal (2011).

‘Pragmatic Sanction’ is A Long Dramatic Monologue about recent developments in population control and work enforcement, done up as a chase sequence involving a mysterious booming sound, a side-scrolling pig’s head, and a lucky number seven, and featuring an extended cameo by the brain structure primarily responsible for coordinating stress response in humans and other animals.

“The conclusion is theoretically wrong. But before that, in the run-up to it, on the road to hell with the first door that exits from a pipe protruding upwards in the vicinity of the third door leading onwards into a highway with a person standing in it, call it me or you.”

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Copies of the book will be on sale.

Storm and Golden Sky:

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FRIDAY 30th October 2015, 7 PM. 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.

A performance for poetry, sound and voice, featuring:

Geraldine Monk : poet and performer
Alan Halsey: poet and performer
Steve Boyland: vocalist and performer

Place waste Dissent launches

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Influx Press are launching Paul Hawkins’ Place Waste Dissent with a free event in Bristol on November 21st. The Arts House in Bristol’s Stokes Croft will also be hosting a month long exhibition of prints from the book, as well as the launch night.

November 12th – December 10th  – Place Waste Dissent Bristol Exhibition at The Arts House

Prints from the new experimental poetry/collage collection Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press) will be on exhibition at The Arts House (open daily between 10am – 11pm). Poetry and collage by Paul Hawkins.

Place Waste Dissent features his own photography as well as that of Julia Guest, Maureen Measure, Steve Ryan, Susan Worth, John Hawkins and Sarer Scotthorne of The No M11 link Road Campaign, Leytonstone past & present.

The Arts House, 108a, Stokes Croft Bristol BS1 3RU open daily 10am – 11pm

November 21st – Place Waste Dissent Bristol Launch Night 7.30pm free entry

SAPling Innovation

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SAPling Innovation: Multi-dimensional paper interfaces, (in)edible poetry & live plant readings from Singing Apple Press – with guest performances from Steven Hitchins and Linus Slug (aka Tommy Peeps).
5-5.45pm on Sat 17th October @ The Peckham Pelican as part of the fantabulous Literary Kitchen Festival, co-hosted by Tom Jeffreys and his formidable army of Learned Pigs.

More here.

Virgil’s Birthday

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Thursday 15th October 2015, 7-9pm. X Marks the Bökship, 42-44 Copperfield Road, London, E3 4RR
An event of poetry, performance and speech acts.
Emma Bennett
Shiv Kotecha
Becky La M’eh’rr

& introduction from Holly Pester

A poet never before hosted in the UK, a travelling artist who may not be fully named, and a performer fresh from a 24hour journey. Join us in celebrating the comedy of their spoken words and their divine proximity.

Shiv Kotecha is a New York poet and the author of EXTRIGUE (Make Now Books 2015), OUTFITS (Troll Thread, 2012) and PAINT THE ROCK (Troll Thread, 2011). Other work can be found at Gauss PDF and elsewhere online. He completes tasks for Collective Task and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at NYU. Instagram @heyguyhere

Emma Bennett is a performance artist and theorist of (stand-up)comedy, and researching for a PhD in Performance Studies at Queen Mary’s, University of London. She has presented her textual, video and performance work in a variety of contexts across the UK and Europe.

Becky La M’eh’rr is an artist and writer currently based in a small Canadian town. She has published and performed her texts and left piles of her books in Berlin, China, London, New York, Vancouver, Vienna, and probably a few other places that she’s forgotten either through deliberate effort or error.

Boooook Laaaaaaunch

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Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH. 5 Nov 2015. 7:00 pm | Theatre | £5.00

An evening of performance, music and film in the ICA Theatre in celebration of concrete and sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920 – 2002). Featuring performances from Paula Claire, Will Holder, Hugh Metcalfe with Oscar Gaynor and Henrik Heinonen, Holly Pester and David Toop, audio interruptions by Heather Phillipson and screenings of films by Bob Cobbing.

This event marks the launch of Boooook: Bob Cobbing (Rosie Cooper, William Cobbing, Occasional Papers, 2015) Boooook addresses all aspects of Cobbing’s rich career, with new essays detailing his key roles in Better Books, London Film-makers’ Co-op and the abAna trio, as well as his involvement in the Destruction in Art Symposium, Fylkingen and Writers Forum.