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Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker: Tributaries

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Since October 2011, Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker have been collaborating on a series of walks, drawings and poems around the cloughs and becks of the Holme River. Their work conveys a sense of the symbiotic shaping of land and water both by each other and by human interventions, as well as their own conversations with the landscape and with each other. Work from Tributaries has been shown at the Holmfirth Arts Festival, 2012 and 2013; Closer to Home: Artists Re-consider the Local, East Street Arts, Leeds, 2012; Shadows Traces, Undercurrents Catherine Nash Gallery Minneapolis, 2012; Arts and Geographies Exhibition, Lyon, 2013; Landscape, Art and Uncertainty Southampton City Art Gallery 2013-14; Plymouth University, 2014 and North Norfolk Nature Festival, Greshams, 2014.

Harriet and Judith are showing a small selection of drawings and poems from their Tributaries collaboration at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield from 6-28 June 2014.

The free Launch of the festival and Private View of the work takes place on 6 June from 6.00pm and will feature Geraldine Monk’s Midsummer Mummery directed by Alan Halsey. Please see invite attached.

You can book here for Harriet and Judith’s talk/reading about the Tributaries Collaboration on 13 June, 8.00-9.00pm — http://www.midsummerpoetryfestival.co.uk/events/harriet-tarlo-and-judith-tucker/

Petrarch -a Celebration of Tim Atkins

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Sat 28 June, 7pm at Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA.

Launching the remarkable collected Petrarch poems by Tim Atkins, clocking in at over 400 pages and published by Crater press, over 20 poets read from the book to celebrate this groundbreaking British poet.

Long heralded as one of the leading lights of the British 21st century avant garde poetry, here the work of Tim Atkins is revealed and celebrated by the key figures in the contemporary British vanguard of experimental writers.

TYPEWRITER ART : A Modern Anthology

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 TYPEWRITER ART : A Modern Anthology by Barrie Tullett

176 pages, 260 illustrations
Laurence King £19.95.

The first typewriter artist to find fame was Flora F. F. Stacey, with her butterfly drawing of 1898; but since the very beginning of the typewriter’s existence, artists, designers, poets and writers have used this rigorous medium to produce an astounding range of creative work.

This beautiful book brings together some of the best examples by typewriter artists around the world. As well as key historical work from the Bauhaus, H. N. Werkman and the concrete poets, there is art by contemporary practitioners, both typewriter artists who use the keyboard as a ‘palette’ to create artworks, and artists/typographers using the form as a compositional device. The book will appeal to graphic designers, typographers, artists and illustrators, and anyone fascinated by predigital technology.

 

 

 

Agnes Lehoczky: a preview

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Ágnes Lehóczky will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th June at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, with Allen Fisher, Leanne Bridgewater and David Miller. Free entry. The film above shows Agnes at Poetry Parnassus in 2012. See also poems in Blackbox Manifold and details of her books published by Shearsman and Egg Box.

Bio.

Ágnes Lehóczky is an Hungarian poet, scholar and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection in English, Budapest to Babel, was published in 2008 and her second collection, Rememberer, in 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award 2010 and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge in 2011. She was Hungary’s representative poet for Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre during London’s Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry: the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars. Her latest collection of poems Carillonneur was published by Shearsman Books in April 2014.

Allen Fisher: a preview

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Allen Fisher will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th June at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, with Leanne Bridgewater, Agnes Lehoczky and David Miller. Free entry. This film shows Allen performing a collaborative piece with Philip Terry at the third Camarade event in 2012. See Allen’s website for more.

Bio.

Allen Fisher is a poet and painter, art historian and publisher. He has authored 150 publications of poetry, graphic work and commentary. He edits Spanner and co-edits Aloes Books. He worked with Fluxus peformance art in the 1970s. His visual work is held at the Tate Collection, King’s College London and Living Museum Iceland, as well as in many private collections.

Fulcrum

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Launched at the turn of the new millennium, Fulcrum: an anthology of poetry and aesthetics is a one-of-a-kind international literary annual that includes poetry, critical and philosophical essays on poetry, debates and visual art in every issue. It aims to offer an evolving map of what is most important and vibrant in the current poetic process throughout the English-speaking world, with occasional detours into other lands. Fulcrum publishes poetic and critical work of the highest quality from all regions populated by the English language and generates a global cross-talk on vital issues among poets, critics, philosophers, artists, psychologists and other humanists.

Submissions to Fulcrum will be open only during the month of May. All work should be previously unpublished.

Leanne Bridgewater: a preview

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Leanne Bridgewater will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 4th June at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start, with Allen Fisher, Agnes Lehoczky and David Miller. Free entry. The film above shows Leanne at Words V Music #2 in 2013. See also her Homophone Translations at Beard of Bees, some visual pieces at Depart and M58, and her Alternative Anniversaries greetings cards at zimZalla.

Bio.

Leanne Bridgewater is a poet who writes and draws, then draws upon subjects (mostly environmental). She enjoys indulging in language poetry and experimentation. Her latest works are Sentience: a three-thousand word sentence (Stoma Press), Three tales of Dysgeographia (self-published), The Homophone Translator: a project on homophonic translation (Beard of Bees, 2013) and an alternative series of greeting cards (zimZalla avant objects). She is currently working on a project involving random number generation, along with preparing a new collection of poetry.

Fifth Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

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June 13th and June 14th

The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton

Sussex Poetry Festival, now in its 5th consecutive year, is Brighton’s most exciting annual poetry event, comprising two days and nights of readings from poets and authors both international and local. The festival brings together poets whose work is as stylistically diverse as it is unified by a commitment to formal experimentation and political dissent. Established poets will read alongside younger voices, and the festival aims to create a space of interaction, reflection and debate for all who attend. Featuring:

  • Caroline Adeyemi
  • Christina Chalmers
  • Allen Fisher
  • David Grundy
  • Danny Hayward
  • Rosa van Hensbergen
  • Chloe Lancaster
  • Stephen Mooney
  • J.H. Prynne (reading English translations of Ulf Stolterfoht)
  • Will Rowe
  • Azad Sharma
  • Ulf Stolterfoht
  • Olivia Thomas
  • Benjamin Thompson
  • Juha Virtanen
  • Alli Warren

Tickets now on sale.

The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner

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SJ Fowler’s The Rottweilers guide to the Dog Owner is made up of 13 different sequences or commissions, including works written for VerySmallKitchen, Zimzalla, The Enemigos project, Lush & the Wortwedding gallery and features works that call on, or celebrate, the poetry of Anselm Hollo, Tom Raworth and Jack Spicer.

The book is out now on Eyewear and will be launched on May 21st, 7pm, at the London Review of Books bookshop 4 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 2JL.

Pecha Kucha – Time

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PechaKucha Vol 11: TIME, to coincide with the close of the ambitious exhibition by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos ‘Time Machine’.

This event takes place at Manchester Art Gallery on 29th May 7.00-8.30 and is free to attend, including a talk by The Other Room’s Tom Jenks and one by James Davies. 20 images x 20 seconds.

More details HERE

 

The Other Room goes to Sheffield

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The Other Room this time in Sheffield as part of The Misummer Poetry Festival. Click on the poster to enlarge. Not to be missed.

The Other Room Presents The Other Room

Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston reading together as The Other Room
Sunday 15th June, 3:30pm
£4/3

Here is some information on the event:

The Other Room is a long running poetry night based in Manchester which focuses on experimental poetry. Over the last six years it has presented a diverse range of performers of national and international repute as well as showcasing vital emerging talent. It also boasts an amazing website of resources including regular news about poetry from around the globe as well as hosting a belt bursting archive of recordings and interviews. In this event The Other Room’s three organisers ­– James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston – perform their work together for the first time. This unique event is a fantastic opportunity to get a taste of The Other Room.

Other events at the festival include Alan Halsey, Juxtavoices, Ágnes Lehóczky and Harriet Tarlo. See more HERE.

The Internal Leg & Cutlery Preview

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CONTRIBUTORS: Sean Bonney, Isolde Mayer, Kaveh Bahrami, Keston Sutherland, Frances Kruk, Peter Manson, Will Stuart, Ollie Evans, Jonty Tiplady & Ian Heames, Rachel Warriner, Julien d’Abrigeon, Josh Stanley, Irum Fazal, David Grundy, Anon, Sara Wintz, Daniel Remein, Danny Hayward, Amy De’Ath, Lisa Jeschke & David Grundy, Meg Foulkes, Lucy Beynon, Richard Owens, Adam Flint, Samantha Walton, Lila Matsumoto, Pocahontas Mildew, Patrice Luchet, Ed Luker, Joseph Persad, John DeWitt, Joe Luna, Nick-e Melville, Ryan Dobran, Kid Birdflu, Jeremy Hardingham, Sarah Hayden, Keith Tuma, Christina Chalmers, Luke Roberts, Jackqueline Frost, on Critical Documents.