The next WFN workshop meetings are February 22nd, March 8th and April 26th, in the function room of the Terrace Bar, Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, 2 – 4 PM.
Bring a poem you like by someone else & and one of your own.
Tom Jenks
The Carousing Duck
zimZalla object 022 is The Carousing Duck, a technicolour, fully reversible flip chart poem by Tim Allen. For more information, visit the zimZalla site.
Knives Forks and Spoons event
- Richard Barrett
- Dylan Harris
- Tom Jenks
The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA. Monday 24th February, 7 PM start.
Nathan Thompson: …or, The Night Terrors
Tom Chivers & SJ Fowler Double Launch
Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ .
Wednesday 26th February
7pm (reading commencing at 7.30)
FREE
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Flood Drain
Tom Chivers
“I had a dream: a drift
on the spirit-level of a river
or a drain or a dyke
being a river in the clothing
of a straight edge”
Inspired by the extraordinary dream visions of the medieval poets and catalysed by a two-day exploration of the liminal terrain of the River Hull floodplain, contemporary writer Tom Chivers has crafted a long poem that meditates on the dual themes of dreaming and drainage.
Annexe is publishing Flood Drain as a limited edition two-tone pamphlet and cartographic artifact of Chivers’ drift along the River Hull.
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Whale Hunt
SJ Fowler
“Time began with a bear then it became a Viking
family tree over grandfather to all of us (that matter)
the polite, the gentle born of the power to display force
but choosing not to do so in company resounds its glow”
Poet and vangardist, SJ Fowler, strives to encounter and confront all disciplines in the poetic tradition. His latest work starts from a root of Norse mythology and carves a path through contemporary poetics and language construction.
Whale Hunt, part of the Introducing series, is a curated section of Fowler’s Vikings work and is published as an illustrated pamphlet.
More here.
Launch of Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Vol 2
Reality Street published Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. Extending the account through the following decade, a new volume, Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91), once again edited by Alan Halsey, collects poems and sequences from a prolific period in Bill’s life that originally appeared in very small editions. The 426-page volume, publication of which was enabled by subscriptions from 120 supporters, also includes a section of uncollected or previously unpublished poems. The editor provides bibliographical and textual notes.
The book will be launched on Saturday 1st March at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB. Selections from Bill’s work will be read by poets Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Harry Gilonis, Alan Halsey, Mendoza, Geraldine Monk and Robert Sheppard. Copies of both Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91) and Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be on sale at a reduced price. The event starts at 7.00pm, readings at 7.30.
Email info@realitystreet.co.uk to book your place.
Iain Britton: two readings
Two March readings by Iain Britton:
- The Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton St, Oxford, OX2 6AA. Sunday 9 March, 5 PM. With Nikolai Duffy.
- Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, room MAL 151. Main building, entrance from Torrington Square. 14th March, 6 PM. Poster here.
Steve Spence reviews Tom Jenks’ Streak Artefacts
New at Stride, along with a number of other new pieces. Click HERE
Great Loves and Other Works
Other Room performer Carolyn Thompson’s first solo show Great Loves and Other Works runs at The Eagle Gallery, 159 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3AL from 13th February – 14th March. Press release here.
An Evening of Polish Migrating Poetry
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Grzegorz Wróblewski and his translators, Piotr Gwiazda and Adam Zdrodowski. Introduction and chairing: Steven J. Fowler and Marcus Slease. 4th floor Masaryk Senior Common Room, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW. 5-7 pm. More here.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
ALPHABET POEMS by Marianne Morris
Part of the New British Poets series on Otoliths 32
Southern summer 2014 issue, with work from Jennie Cole, Michael D. Goscinski, Howie Good, Kyle Hemmings, Eric Hoffman, Raymond Farr, Jim Meirose, John M. Bennett, Craig Cotter, Philip Byron Oakes, Jack Galmitz, A. J. Huffman, Reed Altemus, Anne-Marie JEANJEAN, Paul Summers, Philip Terry & Tom Jenks, Miro Sandev, Lee Slonimsky, Joshua Comyn, Zachary Scott Hamilton., SS Prasad, Michael Berton, Marthe Reed, Nicola Griffin, Owen Bullock, John Martone, Louise Landes Levi, Kate Tough, Alex Stolis, Elizabeth Allen, Bobbi Lurie, Cecelia Chapman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Catherine Vidler, H. Mark Webster, Adam Fieled, Joel Chace, Carol Stetser, dan raphael, Corey Wakeling, Taylor Reid, Johannes Bjerg, Mariapia Fanna Roncoroni, sean burn, Felino A. Soriano, Leigh Herrick, John Pursch, Mark Cunningham, Tony Beyer, Vernon Frazer, J. D. Nelson, Richard Kostelanetz, Lakey Comess, Andrew Brenza, Jeff Harrison, Darrell Petska, Marc Thompson, Spencer Selby, Katrinka Moore, Michael Brandonisio, Eryk Wenziak & Amy Gentile, Branko Gulin, Bogdan Puslenghea, Caleb Puckett, Bob Heman, Marty Hiatt, Gene Flenady, Tim Wright, Collin Schuster, bruno neiva, Geraldine Burrowes, Dylan Kinnett, & Aditya Bahl.
Streetcake 33
Stephen Nelson, JR Clarke, Kris Coffield, Seth Crook, Martin David Edwards, Stephen Emmerson, Michael Goscinski, Mitchell Krochmalnik Grabois, out now.
Tome On The Range
Galatea Resurrects #21
Presenting engagements (including reviews) of poetry books & projects, issue 21 of Galatea Resurrects is now online.
Ikleftiko
A new online poetry magazine, with issue one, featuring work by Andrew Taylor, Changming Yuan, Robert Sheppard, Clinton Inman, Brad Garber, Howie Good, Michael Crowley, Tom Johnson, Forrest Jorgensen, Gerard Sarnat, Shelby Stephenson and Gale Acuff.
The Wolf Interview: Robert Sheppard
The Wolf 29 is now out now, including an interview with Robert Sheppard.
Chris Stephenson: a preview
Chris Stephenson will perform at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 5th February, 7 PM start, free entry. The clip above is of Chris performing at the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event in 2012. For more, try his work at Spine, or Blart. Bio. below. The other readers will be Gavin Selerie and Frances Presley.
Writing is a body-intensive activity
Charles Bernsteain’s ‘Close Listening’ series, with Maggie O’Sullivan, on Jacket2.
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