October Monday 27th. 7.30pm: ZimZalla in performance, readings from the TRYIE Collective (Zuzana Husarova, Olga Pekova +), Tom Jenks, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Kim Campanello, Ryan Van Winkle, Iain Morrison, Christodoulos Makris & more.
Tom Jenks
Sandeep Parmar and James Byrne read at Edge Hill
Thursday 30th October: Sandeep Parmar and James Byrne read at The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, 7.30 pm £4.50
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 She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008 on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy.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. Sandeep Parmar’s The Marble Orchard is published by Shearsman.,
James Byrne founded The Wolf magazine in 2002, which he still edits, and co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Poets (Arc Publications, 2012). His second poetry collection in the UK, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc in November 2009 and his poems have been translated into various languages including Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, French and Serbian. Byrne was Poet in Residence at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 2012 (the first since Joseph Brodsky).
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
Sancho Panza Press
New press run by Sara Crangle and Sam Ladkin, launching with works by Tom Raworth and Peter Manson. More at the Sancho Panza site.
Glitter is a Gender
“The humourous, the fantastical, the classical, the psychogeographical, all are touched upon in this attempt to collectivise the spirit of your erotics: that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
This anthology edited by Sophie Mayer and Sarah Crewe seeks to capture something of the exciting new wave of contemporary writing on the erotic.
Featuring poetry by Nia Davis, Pascal O’Laoghlin, Nat Raha, Sarah Crewe, Becky Cremin, Jo Langton, Andra Simons, Kit Fryatt, Sandeep Parmar, slmendoza, Jay Bernard, Ziba Karbassi, SJ Fowler, Agnes Marton, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Melissa Lee-Houghton and Sophie Mayer,
Glitter is a Gender is “not so much an anthology as an anthol-orgy of voices, hands, hearts and genitals, all working to recognise and actualise the erotic.”
Out now on Contraband Books.
Hello GCHQ
Jon Thompson: a preview
John Thompson will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start.
Jon’s latest book is Landscape with Light, published by Shearsman. For more about his work, visit his site.
The other performers will be Ulli Freer, Emma Cocker and Matt Fallaize.
Of Orhpeus
Scott Thurston, Tim Jarvis, Jon Thompson and Juxtavoices
16 October at 17:30. Lecture Theatre 9, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.
Matt Fallaize: a preview
Matt Fallaize will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start.
For a flavour of his work, visit Ekleksographia or erbacce.
The other performers will be Ulli Freer, Emma Cocker and Jon Thompson.
Tripwire 7
Jen Coleman, Leslie Kaplan (trans. Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap), Rodrigo Toscano, Jeroen Mettes (trans. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & introduced by Samuel Vriezen), Lesego Rampolokeng, Heather Fuller, Nathan Cordero, Donato Mancini, Trish Salah, Arnold Joseph Kemp, Hsia Yü (trans. Steve Bradbury), Carlos Soto-Román, Tonya Foster, Rachel Zolf, Eric Sneathen on Dodie Bellamy, Julia Bloch on Divya Victor, Robin Tremblay-McGaw on Harryette Mullen, Nicky Tiso on David Wolach, plus a special feature on British poetry, featuring Nat Raha, Sean Bonney, Connie Scozzaro, Francesca Lisette, Emily Critchley, Verity Spott, William Rowe, Jennifer Cooke, Robert Kiely on Samantha Walton, and Colleen Herd & Pocahontas Mildew. October 2014. 230 pages.
Emma Cocker: a preview
Emma Cocker will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start.
This film shows Emma and Clare Thornton performing Games of Resonance. You can find more films at Emma’s Vimeo channel. For more, see her work at VerySmallKitchen and also her blog about Not There Yet, a currently unfolding project.
The other performers will be Ulli Freer, Matt Fallaize and Jon Thompson.
Syndrome 2.3: Caroline Bergvall – Drift
adv. £5 / £6/7 on door
8pm // TUESDAY 7th OCT
24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
Drift takes you on a journey through time and space, where languages mix, where the ancient cohabits with the present.
Internationally renowned writer and performer Caroline Bergvall teams up with the Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach, Swiss visual artist and programmer Thomas Köppel and Swiss dramaturge Michel Pralong for this unique and extraordinary performance concert. Using live voice, live percussion and 3D text treatments, they create a dense, moveable and abstract universe of drifting, shifting, sounding language mass. An intensely hypnotic work.
Drift invents a language of connections and of extremes: from Anglo-Saxon and ancient Nordic seafaring literature to rare pop songs to human rights reports of contemporary sea migrants’ disaster. A complex and haunting meditation on sea travel, exile and history. A contemporary elegy.
Inspired by the anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, Drift was originally commissioned for the festival lost.last.gru by Grü/Transtheatre, Geneva. It recently opened Shorelines Festival of the Sea, Southend-on-Sea, to great acclaim.
Thank heaven for Caroline Bergvall, an artist and poet pushing the boundaries of language in a blogged-up and twittering world.
– The Guardian
This is a truly international show and the premiere of DRIFT in the UK – make sure you can say that you were there!
– Rachel Lichtenstein, writer and curator of Shorelines
More here.
zimZalla at the Hardy Tree
In approaching five years of existence, zimZalla has now published 25 objects. To mark this, there will be an exhibition of all of the objects so far at the Hardy Tree gallery near King’s Cross in London, running from 18th – 30th October. In collaboration with SJ Fowler’s Enemies project, there will be two events during this time, the, first also featuring writers from The Red Ceilings press, on the evening of the 18th and a second event on the 27th.
Ulli Freer: a preview
Ulli Freer will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday 15th October at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 pm start. For a flavour of Ulli’s work, try this film of him reading at the Poetry and Revolution conference in 2012, his profile at Salt or Robert Sheppard’s essay on his work in Jacket. The other performers will be Emma Cocker, Matt Fallaize and Jon Thompson.
Knives Forks and Spoons Pop up Reading
On Saturday 4th October from 1pm to 4pm featuring PATRICIA FARRELL, ROBERT SHEPPARD JAMES BYRNE and JOANNE ASHCROFT, all of whom have books published by KFS, at St Helens Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. If you are travelling by train, DO NOT GO TO St HELENS JUNCTION. Instead, travel to St Helens Central Station.
BlazeVox Fall 2014
Hix Eros 5
NUMBER 5: Reviews of Connie Scozzaro, Dodie Bellamy, Richard Barrett, J.H. Prynne, Laura Elrick, the anthology ‘I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women,’ the journal ‘No Prizes,’ Amy Todman, J.L. Williams and Nat Raha. Edited by Lindsay/Luna; designed, typeset and produced by Robbie Dawson. September 2014.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
New McCabe/Jenks collaboration
The sixth collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks is inspired by Marcel Duchamp and can be found here. As with the previous five, this collaboration is for SJ Fowler’s Camarade project. Selections from it will be presented at the Camarade event at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on 25th October.
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