Tom Jenks
Verbose
Monday 28 September, featuring Ian McGuire, John McAuliffe and Geoff Ryman.
Dagestan: SJ Fowler
Dagestan is a place we go to fight for money. A place where we are paid to be filmed, and perhaps be killed.
Dagestan is an thrilling new play by poet and martial artist SJ Fowler, set in the shadowy world of global security. Enter the minds of military contractors to uncover a culture of violence, gallows humour and moral uncertainty.
Fri 16 October – Sat 17 October at the Rich Mix, London.
Produced by Penned in the Margins
Spruce by Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks has a new book out by the great blart press.
Spruce is poem of the long now, where everything that happens and has happened happens at once, where King John and Lenin occupy the same space as Piers Morgan and the cast of Glee. Written rapidly in longhand on lunch breaks, on public transport and in various provincial shopping malls and melancholic chain hotels in David Cameron’s Britain, Spruce could be called a business park pastoral or a sustained work of muffled hysteria, like someone screaming under a duvet.
Free Verse Poetry Book Fair competition
In conjunction with the always excellent Poetry Book Fair at Conway Hall in London on Saturday 26th September, Free Verse are launching a poetry competition, with a first prize of £200 and poster publication at the venue on the day of the fair. More details here.
From the Diaries of John Dee
Apple Pie Editions is delighted to announce the publication of From the Diaries of John Dee.
Poems by Nigel Wood, with images by Alan Halsey.
Mathematician, scholar, astronomer, advisor to Queen Elizabeth I … alchemist, occultist, heretic … John Dee (1527–1608) is one of the most enigmatic figures in British history.
Using material from Dee’s diaries, Nigel Wood has made poems that delve beneath the rumours and mythologies to offer a multifaceted portrait of a man seeking to understand the cosmos and his place within it. Accompanying the poems are visuals by Alan Halsey based on Dee’s transcriptions, charts and diagrams, his attempts to decode and interpret communications from other realms. Together the texts and images undertake a series of parallel explorations of his life and vision, resurrecting Dee with his own words.
isbn 978-1-909388-13-0
2015
78pp • paperback • £6.99 + £1.17 UK postal order
Book orders to a.halsey@westhousebooks.co.ukPayment by cheque or Paypal
See also: YouTube playlist Footnotes for John Dee
Total Recall exhibition at Bury Art Gallery
TOTAL RECALL 1 August — 3 October, 2015
BURY ART MUSEUM
Moss St, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0DR, United Kingdom
How do you remember the people who are important to you? How do you conjure your shared past? Is it in an image, a sound, a smell, a touch? Or do you use words?
We invited world-leading poets and text-artists to make a language-memory for Tony Trehy, who has directed the internationally renowned Text Festival at Bury Art Museum since 2005. This exhibition celebrates a 10-year anniversary of the Festival and a 20-year anniversary of Tony’s time at Bury. Writing on a wall, an Internet search, a diary entry, a flurry of thoughts … what is remembering and who is it for?
Tony Trehy has been the ring-leader of decade-long conversations, new opportunities, challenges and heated debates. Each of his four Text Festivals has added to a continuing dialogue between language and art. Every Text Festival has asked the audience a simple-but-complex question: How do I read?
Into the historic space of Bury Art Museum, Trehy has injected text that is a new ‘language art’ for the 21st Century. Bury was once the centre of paper-making in Britain, now it is a pioneer of language-making, with its Text Archive welcoming readers from all over the world.
TOTAL RECALL is a guerrilla makeover, an A4 invasion of reading into the larger narrative of looking. Unlike the street signs outside, these are not corporate instructions or sales pitches; they are antidotes. Walls, vitrine, archival box—nary a “book” to be found, but a heap of language left in memory.
TOTAL RECALL includes work by local, national and international text-based artists and poets: angela rawlings, Alan Halsey, Barrie Tullett, Carolyn Thompson, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Darren Marsh, derek beaulieu, Emma Cocker, Eric Zboya, Erica Baum, Jaap Blonk, James Davies, Jayne Dyer, Jesse Glass, Karri Kokko, Kristen Mueller, Lawrence Weiner, Leanne Bridgewater, Liz Collini, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Marco Giovenale, Márton Koppány, Matt Dalby, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Paula Claire, Penny Anderson, Peter Jaeger, Philip Davenport, Rachel Defay-Liautard, Robert Grenier, Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen, Sarah Sanders, Seekers of Lice, Stephen Emmerson, Steve Giasson, Steve Miller, Tom Jenks, and Tony Lopez.
— derek beaulieu and Phil Davenport, Curators
Tamarin Norwood: what the point is : the end of the line
25 September at 18:00. 171 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3NU.
what the point is : the end of the line is an essay in sculptural form, composed of drawing, video and assembled objects. This new body of artwork develops a chain of analogies between the tip of the pen/cil, the first person singular, the line of sight and the I-beam cursor. It asks: how is the object answered by its representation, and how is the subject consoled by it?
The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events drawing upon the artist’s parallel writing practice.
Friday 25 September 6-9pm
Opening Event: A screening of short video works with readings of recent texts by the artist, compiled to examine gesture and pictorial figuration in drawing and writing.
Saturday 3 October 4-6pm
Launch of a limited edition publication created as an artwork in counterpoint to the exhibition. The artist book is introduced with new writing by Nico de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley.
Friday 30 October 6-9pm
Closing Event: Tamarin Norwood discusses her work with exhibition curators Nico de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley, addressing the works on show as they intersect with her wider project of studio research.
Otoliths
Issue thirty-eight of Otoliths, the southern winter, 2015, issue, has just gone live with works by Cecelia Chapman, Felino A. Soriano, Texas Fontanella, Heath Brougher, George McKim, Kyle Hemmings, Philip Byron Oakes, Jim Leftwich, Paul Summers, Annette Plasencia, Steve Dalachinsky, Karl Kempton, Vernon Frazer, Pete Spence, Eileen R. Tabios, Anna Ryan-Punch, Toby Fitch, Olivier Schopfer, Carlyle Baker, Lakey Comess, A. A. Kostas, John M. Bennett, Cheryl Penn, Joel Chace, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Ric Carfagna, Owen Vince, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Russell Bennetts & Rauan Klassnik, Marco Giovenale, David Greenslade, Chris Moran, Alyson Miller, Raymond Farr, John Pursch, Richard Kostelanetz, Michael Jacobson, hiromi suzuki, Tyler Pruett, Rosaire Appel, Lee Ballentine, Jessie Janeshek, Márton Koppány, Sal Randolph, Jim McCrary, John Lowther, Sabine Miller, Volodymyr Bilyk, Howie Good, John Martone, Tim Wright, Eric Hoffman, Bill Wolak, Jeff Harrison, David Adès, Kathup Tsering, Natsuko Hirata, Tim Gaze, Daniel Pilkington, sean burn, Patrick Williams, Rob Stuart, Amelia Dale, Spencer Selby, Tony Beyer, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Carol Stetser, Joe Balaz, Bobbi Lurie, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Ed Baker, Emma Corcoran, Sean Bolton, bruno neiva, Barnaby Smith, dan raphael, PT Davidson, Sheila E. Murphy, Cherie Hunter Day, A. Scott Britton, Marco Diotallevi, Willie Smith, Susan Connolly, SS Prasad, Michael Brandonisio, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Mark Russell, Bob Heman, Ian Gibbins, J. D. Nelson, Lotto Thießen, Sam Langer, harry k stammer, & Katrinka Moore.
Conversational Nuisance: Joanne Ashcroft and Patricia Farrell
The new zimZalla object is Conversational Nuisance, an A3 size directional poster poem with anthropomorphised rabbit insignia by Joanne Ashcroft and Patricia Farrell. More at the zimZalla site.
Mahu: an exhibition by SJ Fowler
Talking Performance at Tate Modern: SJ Fowler
Peter Jaeger: Not the Booker Prize
Other Room reader Peter Jaeger’s Field Guide to Lost Things has made the longlist for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. Help it make the short list by voting for it. If you’ve not read a copy yet or have just seen a performance find out more and read a sample at if p then q.
Jeff Hilson: A Barry Bendy Poem
Out now on Oystercatcher.
Allen Fisher: 3 Choirs Poet-in-Residence
Allen Fisher is the Poet-in-Residence at the 3 Choirs in Hereford this year, 25 July – 1st August 2015.
Allen will visit many of the concerts in venues around the city from Purcell on day one to Verdi on day seven. During 3 Choirs week he will post notices of his research to the online 3 Choirs Plus and he will copy this to a Notice Board on the corner of King Street and Broad Street at the old Herefordshire Information centre. On Saturday at 3pm he will present his assembled thoughts and poetry at a reading at the Apple Store Gallery in Rockfield Road, off of Aylestone Hill.
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Issue 6 of Rhys Trimble’s online magazine out now, here.
Steve Boyland: Chant project
Two films from Other Room performer Steve Boyland, part of his research at University of Limerick with musicologist/ Early Music specialist Oscar Mascarenas.
Storm and Golden Sky: Robert Hampson and Eleanor Rees
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!
July 31st: Robert Hampson and Eleanor Rees
Eleanor Rees graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2001, and a MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2002.[2] She has a PhD from the University of Exeter. She has published three collections of poetry. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry. Her second collection is Eliza and the Bear from which the band take their name. Her third collection is Blood Child, Pavilion Poets/Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Read the article in The Skinny with Eleanor on local poets, politics and her new collection Blood Child.
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/concrete-jungle-eleanor-rees-on-blood-child
Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. During the 70s he co-edited (with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry) the magazine Alembic which, among other things, was instrumental in introducing North American LANGUAGE poetry to England. More recently, he has edited another poetry magazine, purge. He also co-edited (with Peter Barry) New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible.His collections of poetry include: Degrees of Addiction, A Necessary Displacement, A City at War, Seaport, and C for Security, and An Exploration of Colours (Veer 2010). His selected poems,Assembled Fugitives, was published by Stride in 2000.
Xing the Line
Derek Beaulieu, Sarah Crewe, Luna Montenegro & Adrian Fisher (aka Montenegro Fisher). 23 July, 19:30. The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London, WC1X 0AE.
WF(N) flash mob meeting
An additional, impromptu WF(N) workshop is happening Saturday 18th July, in the café of Manchester Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, 2 – 4 PM. Bring photocopies of a poem by someone else you like and one of your own.
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