Tate Modern : July 18th 2015
East Room : Level 6 : 3pm – 5pm
£9, concessions available.
The London based poets, writers and artists Patrick Coyle and SJ Fowler perform new works that push the boundaries of what we understand by performance and poetry. Following an hour of performance this is an opportunity to join them in an in depth discussion to further explore these disciplines and other notions of the avant-garde. More here.
Watadd is a collaboration between London based poet and academic Steve Willey and Syrian actor, poet and filmmaker based in London Ammar Haj Ahmad. For the launch event (7-9 pm, 9 July, P21 Gallery, 1 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD) they are going to read from their own poetry and from each other’s in translation. More at the Watadd site.
9 August, 13:00. News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4HY.
Readings in the best bookshop ever from all three bears; Mendoza, Pascal O’Loughlin and Sarah Crewe,plus the North West launch of RWF/RAF, the fourth pamphlet from Stinky Bear, based on the lives of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Ulrike Meinhof. It will be super fantastisch. Goldilocks not invited.
The Found Poetry Review celebrates the poetry in the existing and the everyday. Issue 8 out now.
Tuesday, July 7, 7.30 pm
Peter Philpott, Pete Smith, Simon Smith
at The Apple Tree (upstairs room), 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0AE
Simon Smith is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, the latest is 11781 W. Sunset Boulevard from Shearsman. Half a dozen just like you (Oystercatcher) and Navy (Verisimilitude) are the first two volumes of a ‘trilogy’; the third booklet, Salon Noir, will appear from Equipage in the autumn of 2015. Presently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
Pete Smith, born & raised in Coventry, emigrated to Canada in 1974. After a long detour returned to poetry in the late 1990s. Has published poetry with Wild Honey Press, Poetical Histories, Great Works & Oystercatcher among others; reviews & essays in Agenda, The Gig, The Paper, The Capilano Review, Crayon & elsewhere. He has given readings at the Kootenay School of Writing & at the final CCCP in 2006. His first full-length collection, Bindings with Discords, was published by Shearsman in February 2015.
Peter Philpott ran Great Works Press and magazine in the 1970s, the now largely quiescent Great Works and modernpoetry.org.uk websites in the 2000s – active online now with Innovative Poetry Readings in London webpage, blogging serial poems (http://a2ndlife.org.uk) & proudly attending Writers Forum Workshop – New Series. He’s launching Ianthe Poems (Shearsman)
New publication edited by Jonty Tiplady, out now.
Edited by Luke Thurogood, Three and a half point 9 is open for submissions:
“Our journal is excited to be looking for, and publishing, experimental and all other forms of poetry. Whether telling the story of a young Iranian man trapped in a web of love with a Welsh Paramedic, spurting dadaist verse, or quite simply anything your poetic heart creates, you are very welcome to submit.”
The New Concrete is a major new anthology of visual poetry edited by Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe and published by Hayward Publishing (July 2015). The book represents visual poetry published from 2000 to the present day and suggests ways in which the original concrete movement of the 1950s and ’60s has been built upon, developed and redefined by subsequent generations of poets and artists. More here.
Friday June 26th at 7.00, £5
For this month only this reading will be held at the Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX in the centre of Liverpool.
The event will take place in the Sandon Room: turn right after entering the main entrance of the Bluecoat, follow the ramp and through the double doors. See the Bluecoat website for directions.
ANDY BROWN’s latest poetry books are WATERSONG (Shearsman, 2015), EXURBIA (Worple, 2014), THE FOOL AND THE PHYSICIAN (Salt, 2012) and 7 previous collections. He published his first novel, APPLES & PRAYERS in 2015 (Dean Street). He is the co-editor of A BODY OF WORK: Poetry and Medical Writing, forthcoming from Bloomsbury (2016) and also edited THE WRITING OCCURS AS SONG: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman, 2014). He is a performing musician, and has been Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter for fifteen years.
KELVIN CORCORAN was born in 1956. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which is For the Greek Spring. In addition he has interviewed Lee Harwood for the volume Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, published in June 2008. He has read extensively in the UK and also in Germany and Ireland and accompanied travelling Arts Council exhibitions reading poetry written in response to the work of contemporary painters and sculptors. Three extended interviews with him can be found in The Writing Occurs As Song: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader, the first full-length study of his work, edited by Andy Brown and published by Shearsman in 2014. With Recent projects include collaboration with Greek musicians in setting his poetry to music and collaborative performances with songwriters Jack Hues, Liam Magill and pianist Sam Bailey at the Free Range series of events in Canterbury. Hear some samples of these collaborations at soundcloud here, here, here and here. His recent books include a New and Selected Poems and Backward Turning Sea, both from Shearsman.
Last year at Sheffield’s Midsummer Festival The Other Room organisers performed for the first time together – the first time in 7 years.
Only one year on and it’s happening again, this time on home turf in Fallowfield, Manchester, at Verbose:
Live literature night Verbose is back on Monday 22 June. This month, our special guests are James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston, the three organisers of long-running, Manchester-based experimental poetry reading series The Other Room. No slouches on the publishing front, with over 20 books between them, James, Tom and Scott also collaborate extensively with other writers and run various other enterprises: if p then q independent publishing house (James), zimZalla avant objects (Tom) and Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Scott).
There will also be an open mic of prose and poetry – visit the Verbose website for instructions on how to sign up. Your host is Sarah-Clare Conlon. It’s free entry and doors are at 7.30pm – get there then to bagsie a seat. Verbose takes place every fourth Monday of the month at Fallow café, 2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M14 6NA. See http://verbosemcr.wordpress.com/ for more details.
30th July, 7pm. 3MT, Afflecks Arcade, 35-39 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JG. Tickets £3.
Join us for the launch of our haematological issue, edited by Sarah Crewe, Elinor Cleghorn and David Rees. Featuring readings from Sophie Mayer, Melissa Lee Houghton, Pascal O’Loughlin, Tom Jenks, Dorothy Lehane, Elizabeth Treadwell, Patricia Farrell and Eleanor Ward. No actual blood donations required.
ABOUT every house has a door http://www.everyhousehasadoor.org
Every house has a door was formed in 2008 by Lin Hixson, director, and Matthew Goulish, dramaturge, to convene project-specific teams of specialists, including emerging as well as internationally recognized artists. Drawn to historically or critically neglected subjects, Every house creates performances in which the subject remains largely absented from the finished work. The performances distil and separate presentational elements into distinct modes – recitation, installation, movement, music – to grant each its own space and time, and inviting the viewer to assemble the parts in duration, after the fact of the performance, to rediscover the missing subject. Works include Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. (2009) in response to the work of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev, Testimonium (2013) a collaboration with the band Joan of Arc in response to Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony poems, and the on-going project 9 Beginnings based on local performance archives.
Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. His 39 Microlectures—in proximity of performance was published by Routledge in 2000, and Small Acts of Repair—Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, which he co-edited with Stephen Bottoms, in 2007. He was awarded a Lannan Foundation Writers Residency in 2004, and in 2007 he received an honorary Ph.D. from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth. Goulish is Provocations editor for The Drama Review, and he teaches in the MFA and BFA Writing Programs of the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lin Hixson co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. She is full Professor of Performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received an honorary doctorate from Dartington College in 2007. She was awarded a Foundation for the Arts Award in 2014 and the United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in 2009 with Matthew Goulish, her collaborator and co-founder of Every house has a door. Goat Island created nine performance works and toured extensively in the US, England, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, and Canada. Her writing on directing and performance has been published in the journals P-Form, TDR, Frakcija, Performance Research, Women and Performance, and Whitewalls; and included in the anthologies Small Acts of Repair—Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, Live Art and Performance, Theatre in Crisis?, and the textbook Place and Placelessness in Performance. Hixson has directed two films, Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka and It’s Aching Like Birds, in collaboration with the artist Lucy Cash and Goat Island.
ABOUT forced entertainment
http://www.forcedentertainment.com
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/people/oconnor
“Across 51 pop-cerebral 14-line poems, Endless/ Nameless dazzles with the minutiae of contemporary life and language. Rachel Sills and Richard Barrett invite us to share in the excitement of their exchange, which feels almost as if they’ve discovered an algorithm for making each line more unforeseen than the last. At times spiky and bristling, at others agonising and direct, and often very funny, this sequence breathes new life into the sonnet form in the way Berrigan and Mayer did. In a synthesised soundscape of television, Greggs outlets and Facebook, in poetry that can jump from Primark to if p then q in a few lines: new and exciting possibilities for lyric expression evolve.” Colin Herd
Out now on The Red Ceilings.
Poet/artist collaborations at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield to coincide with the South Yorkshire Poetry Festival, including Brian Lewis and Andrew Hirst; Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker; Helen Tookey and Patricia Farrell. Closing Event 2pm on Saturday 30th May. The bar will be open and there’ll be short artist talks about each of the installations.
Out now on Test Centre. The book will be launched at X Marks the Bökship, in Matt’s Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, Mile End, London E3 4RR, on June Wednesday 3rd at 7pm. Free entry and drinks.
FRIDAY May 29th, 7 PM start. Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm start! Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He has four collections of poetry: Things To Do Before You Leave Town (2009), Twelve Nudes (2010), Hyakuretsu Kyaku (2011), and Emergency Window (2012), all published by Penned In The Margins. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/ Patricia Farrell lives in Liverpool. She is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in London in the 1980s and was a member of the arts group New River Project. She has collaborated with other writers and artists, most notably Robert Sheppard, as well the installation artist Jivan Astfalck, on the project B*twixst, and with Jennifer Cobbing, and Veryan Weston on the dance piece, A Space Completely Filled with Matter, which is published this month by Veer Press. Her work is published in a range of magazines and collections, including A New Tonal language in the Reality Street‘4 pack’ series, as well as individual pamphlets: most recently, Seven Bays ofSpirituality (Knives Forks and Spoons Press). She completed a PhD thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea, was published by Shearsman Books in 2013. http://patriciafarrell.weebly.com/
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