25 February, 6 PM. Clephan Building (De Montfort University), Leicester.
FREE reading by poet, artist and publisher Peter Hughes. All welcome but please book in advance by clicking on the link http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspxPeter has published a number of collections and his adaptations of Petrarch are due out this year. He is also the editor of the award-winning Oystercatcher Press.
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!
Friday February 27th 2015
Claire Trévien is an Anglo-Breton poet, editor, reviewer, workshop leader and live literature producer.
She is the author of the pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery (Salt, 2011), and The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), which was longlisted in the Guardian First Book Award. The Shipwrecked House was co-commissioned as a one-woman show by Ledbury Festival and supported thanks to Arts Council Funding. It has been touring the UK this autumn, reviews can be found here.
Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including POETRY, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Magma, Under the Radar, Poetry Salzburg, The Forward Book of Poetry 2014 and Best British Poetry 2012.
She edits Sabotage Reviews, co-edits Verse Kraken, and co-organizes Penning Perfumes.
Luke Kennard is a poet and writer of fiction. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Exeter and lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham. He won an Eric Gregory award in 2005 for his first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers (Stride Books) which has since been re-issued by Salt as The Solex Brothers Redux. His second collection of poetry The Harbour Beyond the Movie was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007 making him the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the award. His third book, The Migraine Hotel, was published in by Salt in 2009 and a pamphlet, Planet-Shaped Horse, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2011 to critical acclaim.
Matt Dalby is walking around the entire M60 motorway in May and making art on the way, as part of his Islands project, which he describes as follows: “Islands is a series of artworks planned for 2015, beginning with a series of soundworks called Islands : Wind. My walk around the M60, and the period of preparation leading up to it, will lead to the creation of a set of linked works called Islands: Manchester. Islands : Manchester will exist across different media such as text, video, sound and installation works.”
Read more about the project here.
Lucy Burnett, Tom Jenks, Paul Sutton, Rhys Trimble, Debbie Walsh. 7 March at 20:00. The Britons Protection 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5LE.
Geraldine Monk. Liz Berry. Roy Marshall.
Music by Les Malheureux
2.30 – 4.oo
Saturday 21st February. John Rylands Library.
Deansgate, Manchester.
Free entry.
More details about the Small Press Poetry Collection at Sheffield University library can be found here.
Edmund Hardy, Mendoza & Peter Philpott.
27 February at 19:30.
The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant Clerkenwell Road, London, WC1X 0AE.
This is a special issue that gathers a collection of contemporary Mexican poets. With an introduction by Yaxkin Melchy and poetry and translations by Juana Adcock, Paula Abramo, Sergio Ernesto Ríos, Sergio Loo, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Dolores Dorantes and Yaxkin Melchy. Gloria Gervitz is translated by William Rowe; poems by Ámbar Past; Daniel Eltringham translates traditional Mexican songs and Juan José Bobadilla writes and article on Comtemporary Mexican Poetry. Cover by Mexican artist Tila Rodríguez-Past.
Visit the Alba Londres site for more information.
Thanks to all who came to last night’s performances by Joanne Ashcroft, Lila Matsumoto and EJ McAdams. Our next event is our 7th birthday and will be on Thursday 30th April, with Mark Greenwood, Sophie Herxheimer, Steve Boyland, JR Carpenter, Jerome Fletcher & Lou Rowan.
Join us at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD at 7pm for readings by Joanne Ashcroft, Lila Matsumoto and E.J. McAdams.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY
Cardiff Poetry Experiment
Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, followed by drinks and discussion
Butetown History and Arts Centre
4 Dock Chambers, Stryd Bute, Cardiff Bay
Featuring:
SMSteele
Cris Paul
Zoë Skoulding
SMSteele is a PhD researcher at Exeter, an installation artist and a widely published Canadian poet. She accompanied the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry as an official Canadian war artist – her country’s first poet to do so – from 2008-2010 on their road to war to Afghanistan. Suzanne is a founding member of eXegesis poetry collective, and librettist of the 270-person symphonic work, Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation (2012). Her work has been broadcast internationally.
Cris Paul is a writer and artist from Wales, based in Caerphilly. His work could be described as ‘late modernist’, and through Bob Cobbing’s Writers Forum workshop, his time living in South America, his outlook was shaped enormously. His poetry, journalism, and criticism have been published widely in the Guardian as well as vital small press publications (Skald, Openned, Bad Press, Greatworks, Onedit). He has contributed to Wales Arts Review and Poetry Wales. His first book, Mantras for the City from the City, was published by Writers Forum and his second, Stenia Cultas Handbook, by Veer Books.
Zoë Skoulding is a poet, translator, editor and critic. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008). She has performed her work at many international festivals, often incorporating electronic sound in her readings as well as collaborating with musicians. Her monograph Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013, and she was editor of Poetry Wales from 2008-2014. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University.
Lila Matsumoto will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 11th February at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD, 7 PM start. The above film shows her reading at Edinburgh’s Hidden Door festival in 2014. You can read some of her work at Jacket2. Lila also edits SCREE poetry magazine.
Joanne Ashcroft will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 11th February at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD, 7 PM start. The above film is an experimental, stylised reading of Joanne’s What the tree saw sequence, which incorporates elements of the early Medieval Ogham alphabet. For more about Joanne, visit her own webpage or her entry at Robert Sheppard’s 25 Edge Hill Poets.
Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Lakey Comess, Stephen Bett, Greg McLaren, Philip Byron Oakes, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Robert Lietz, Stephen C. Middleton, Nick Ravo, Chase Gagnon, Owen Bullock, Caleb Puckett, Kyle Hemmings, Despo Magoni, Craig Cotter, J. Crouse, Michael Martrich, Bryan Young, Halvard Johnson, dan raphael, Jeff Dahlgren, Jeff Dahlgren & John Lowther, John Lowther, Pete Spence, Howie Good, A. J. Huffman, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Vittore Baroni, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & Cheryl Penn & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, j4, Felino A. Soriano, Andrew Topel, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Andrew Topel, Jack Galmitz & Fotis Begetis, Joel Chace, Mark Melnicove, Sally Evans, James Sanders, Joe Balaz, John Martone, Raymond Farr, Carol Shillibeer, Carol Stetser, Natsuko Hirata, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Stuart Barnes, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Ric Carfagna, Nurul Wahidah, Anne Elvey, Jeff Harrison, Robert Sheppard, Stephen Nelson, Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, Daniel John Pilkington, Eryk Wenziak, SS Prasad, sean burn, Jonel Abellanosa, Michael O’Brien, Mark Pirie, Márton Koppány, Willie Smith, Kit Kennedy, Toby Finch, Naomi Buck Palagi, Marcello Diotallevi, Stu Hatton, Brendan Tang, John Pursch, Charles Freeland, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Luc Fierens, Angad Arora, PT Davidson, Steven Alvarez, George J. Farrah, bruno neiva, Bob Heman, Richard Kostelanetz, Bogdan Puslenghea, hiromi suzuki, Tony Beyer, nick-e melville, Marilyn Stablein, Ria Masae, Susan Gangel, Michael Brandonisio, Katrinka Moore, Gian Luigi Braggio, Texas Fontanella, Aditya Bahl, Tom Snarsky, & Trijita Mukherjee.
Out now.
Friday 6th February, Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, prompt 7.30pm start
A joint launch event for the fourth issues of The Paper Nautilus (eds. Kilbride / Van Hensbergen) and MATERIALS (eds. Jeschke / Grundy). This new issue of TPN is a translation issue, featuring translations of, among others, Clarice Lispector, Friederike Mayröcker, Sophie Podolski, Anne Portugal, Amelia Rosselli and Monique Wittig. The new issue of MATERIALS is subtitled ‘Economic Ophelia’ and features work from Rob Halpern, Kevin Killian, Nina Power, Connie Scozzaro, Cathy Wagner and others.
The night will feature performances, poetry readings, lectures and presentations in fitting and unfitting arrangements by the following:
As well as TPN and Materials 4, copies of the following new books and pamphlets from MATERIALS will be on sale:
MATERIALS # 4: ECONOMIC OPHELIA
…contains 126pp of work from Lucy Beynon, Elana Chavez, Corina Copp, Kathryn Griffiths, Rob Halpern, Jeremy Hardingham, Lisa Jeschke, Camille Kame trans. Rosa Van Hensbergen, Evan Kennedy, Kevin Killian, Isolde Mayer, Nina Power, Hannah Proctor, Nat Raha, Connie Scozzaro, Verity Spott, Will Stuart, Marina Vishmidt, Cathy Wagner, Alli Warren, Naomi Weber and Ronaldo V. Wilson.
“Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”
“So why assume she is a woman.” “A house was on fire” – “I rip apart the instruments of my imprisonment”. “Sickos continue to disparage / our abolition of a gendered body but” we continue to be interested in “gender as a critical praxis”, in those who are “more than [their] line of work”. “Electric Blinker on / I profess Jobless” – “because I couldn’t find the words,” “you sit there and write”, whether “allegori[es] of bodies at the hands of power” or breaths decapitated “to activate | in flashes […] this breath we have located and endowed with locations”, in “societal abjection”, in the beating of a “constitutively economic” heart-machine, in “depressed precacarity becom[ing] a threat capable of effective disruption”. “Angry with homophobic and cowardly bullies”, “I’m hysterical today” – “I have become an alcoholic drink / On which you feast / Your hogs”. To “suffer the tough meat”, “they barely conceive / of me as a person […] so reliable”.
“Would Love / rescue me”, “screaming at my enemies to be beautiful”, “the total fuckups we all are” – “I thought about tenderness and when you’re inside it […] what an astonishing atonement that is” – I thought about “signs of deteriorating”, about where it is “possible for the pain caused by walls that limit our possibilities to be overcome without breaking the walls that keep us intact” – “a material action”, “its own unproductive labour”, “a vortex of instruction”, “with permission and with violence”.
Prices (incl. shipping):
£3 UK
£5 Europe
£6 Rest of World
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SARA LARSEN – MERRY HELL
Sara Larsen is a poet based in Oakland, CA.
Her previous publications include NOVUS, A,a,a,a,a, The Hallucinated, After Sappho and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous.
With David Brazil, she produced over sixty issues of the Bay Area zine Try!
She is involved in the organizing committee for the Bay Area Public School, an autonomous free school at the Omni Commons in Oakland.
MERRY HELLL is dedicated to Helen of Troy, to the women of the Paris Commune, and “to my friends, now.” Commons and communes past and present come up against patriarchal law, capitalism, military and police violence, logics of cash and sacrifice, in lines that spread out, that elongate in notated waves of sight and breath. The poem is urgent, witty and this only an excerpt – the full book will appear from Atelos Press in 2015.
24pp, card covers, side-stapled.
Prices (incl. shipping):
£3 UK
£5 Europe
£6 Rest of World
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TOM ALLEN – WATCH FIRES
38pp, card covers, side-stapled
This is Tom Allen’s first book: a long poem with a Coda for Diane Di Prima. Inside, stones, clocks, fires, rivers, screaming pigs, the singing dead, ein guter mensch, Hell approached across a series of lines and pages in various potential or actual manifestations and angles. At times the poem’s lines seem to approach or gesture towards the quality of aphorism, but also to place that quality in a different and more fraught, tautly-held suspense, chiselled and “slow. slow”, yet far from decorous: fully freighted and fully forceful.
Prices (incl. shipping):
£3 UK
£5 Europe
£6 ROW
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ROSA VAN HENSBERGEN – LIGHTS OUT TO LOVE IN HD
My transmissions have been hacked. Upfront as I am.
Lights out to Love in HD is a 126-page work in prose. Split figures are figured by an unnamed narrator; watched and watching, on the screen, in the room: there are eyes on me, not only my own, but all eyes in the gloom; shadowy forces drag into shadow and bright night-lit glare, at home, in the supermarket, on the computer screen which holds out indifferently, levers hierarchy of emotion.
It is in this way, not sure what corpse or shade I sit in, that I walk the aisle…Searching back to source, the narrator sets out to trace the core anguish, scout the worm – we flash back, faces on the screen watch and are watched, language sinuous insinuates in rhyme and polyglot ease an ease of style belying surveilled unease. In other words, address the problem areas around knowing / not knowing. Guzzle in their origin. Meat and flesh, sex or death, taut or taught, in control or out, imposed in infantile pose, react, controlled or abject, the skin stretched as paper over the head, the grass false or real, virtual, organic, socially made, evolve, dissolve, revolve, go glitch; in the stifling courtyard enclosed, in the city a cell, with infinite free drinks, the packs of produce, a body in a bed, the weight of stone rocked to nuclear, collapsing into pollen, minute detail of the body gesture danced or forced, reeling, unsure in fact of where was back and where was home, and of where located their relation to one another…To know your place, where that placement is uncertain and hidden, rifled over and shot through in machine and in social code: Held distended in distance that home dissociates, pixel display.
This is a book in which reformulative technique, a melting and rewelding of the associative structures of language lies at the heard and fold of my detective strategies.
My transmissions have been HACKED.
120pp, covers, side-stapled.
Prices (incl. shipping):
£3 UK
£5 Europe
£6 Rest of World
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ALSO in existence is:
A COMRADESHIP OF HEROES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Photocopied / stapled zine to coincide with the RIVET XMAS reading in London given by Connie Scozzaro, Danny Hayward, Jack Frost and Christina Chalmers on Saturday 20th December 2014. Poetry by Scozzaro, Hayward, Frost, Chalmers, David Grundy, Toby Huttner, Lisa Jeschke, Ed Luker, Richard Owens, Nat Raha, Verity Spott, Sam Wilder. 40 pp. Christmas tree made of skulls.
FREE with any other order.
More at the Materials site.
Edinburgh’s monthly night of experimental words and performance featuring writers and artists from across the UK and abroad. Avant jive for the masses.
For the first event of 2015 we’re back in Summerhall’s Demonstration Room with a Welsh word-terrorist, a Newcastle-based dictaphone tickler and vocal goof, a Bath-based innovative poet and academic, and a local modernist poet and multimedia merchant.That is:
Rhys Trimble
Posset
Samantha Walton
Rodney Relax
£5 entry (£4 concessions)
7.30pm for 8pm start.
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. More here.
The WF(N) reading and workshop group organised by Gareth Twose is meeting on Saturday 31st January, 2-4 pm in the function room above Terrace bar in Edge Street, Manchester M2. Bring photocopies of poem you like (by someone else) – and one of your own.
otherroom.org 