More films from our special event to launch the Dark Would anthology in Manchester, October 2013.
Scott Thurston reads Jackson Mac Low
Tom Jenks reads Georges Perec.
Tom Jenks
Hix Eros
NUMBER 2: Reviews of Goat Far DT & Papa Boop Ndiop, Luke Roberts, Anne Gorick, Judah Rubin, Alison Gibb, Justin Katko, SNOW #1, Tom Leonard, Richard Owens, Carol Watts, John Wilkinson, Rosa Van Hensbergen & Emily Critchley. November 2013. eds. Lindsay + Luna, design, setting and production by Robbie Dawson
Sarah Crewe: Sea Witch
“Sea Witch” consists of 21 poems, loosely based on each scene of the film Jaws. The shark is now female. The writing combines attention to verbal texture with use of space on the page to present a verbal-visual whole. Out now from Leafe Press.
Richard Barrett and Nigel Wood at The Other Room
Northern Venetians
Gerry Smith’s collaborative project is now online, creating a composite city from places, such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Manchester, describes as the Venice of the North.
Gareth Twose: a preview
Gareth Twose will read at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 4th December, The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start. The other readers are Robert Sheppard and Sandeep Parmar. The clip above shows Gareth reading at the launch of Top Ten Tyres in August 2013. Preview of Robert Sheppard to follow.
Bio.:
Gareth Twose is organiser of the Writers Forum North and one of the organisers of the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette series of Manchester based poetry readings. In 2012, he co-organised the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event at the Lass O’Gowrie. Recent work has appeared in publications including 3 am, Depart, Litter, Sunfish, Assent and Ink, Sweat & Tears. His debut collection, Top Ten Tyres, was recently published by Red Ceilings Press.
Some links:
Poems in 3 AM Magazine.
Poems in Depart.
Colin Herd: Glovebox and Other Poems
Carolyn Thompson at The Other Room
Hi Zero
Hi Zero Proudly Present: Number 24 in the Current Series, Featuring Readings of Poetry by the Following Poets:
RYAN DOBRAN
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LISA JESCHKE
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PRUDENCE CHAMBERLAIN
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Music from a thing, the bar, lights, the whole shebang. Taking place at The Hope, Queens Road, Brighton, on –
TUESDAY 26th November –
£4 entry –
Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start.
This will be the last Hi Zero of 2013! Come and celebrate! More info soon! Please spread the word and invite your friends!
James Davies and Robert Lax
Veer into Benefits 5: Launch of ‘Elegy’
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 19:30 until 22:00. The Village Hall, Shoreditch Works, 33 Hoxton Square, N1 6NN.
Introduction and short reading by Will Rowe. Extended reading from ‘Elegy’ (London: Veer, 2013) by Steve Willey, featuring collaborative performances with Tom Bamford and others. Also, talks, further readers, and performances T.B.A.
Entrance: Free. Booze situation is Bring your own.
Sandeep Parmar: a preview
Sandeep Parmar will read at the next Other Room, on Wednesday 4th December, The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. 7 PM start. The other readers are Robert Sheppard and Gareth Twose, with previews of both to follow. The clip above shows Sandeep reading for the Poets and Players reading series at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, March 2013.
Bio.:
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She is embarassed to admit she received an MA in Creative Writing from UEA (gah!) and has her PhD in English Lit from UCL (on Mina Loy’s archive). Her Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees appeared from Carcanet in 2011 and her collection The Marble Orchard was published by Shearsman in 2012. Her second book of poems, Eidolon, will hopefully appear soon. She lectures at the University of Liverpool. She’s the Reviews Editor of The Wolf poetry magazine.
Some links:
Materials Reading Series: Caitlín Doherty / Frances Kruk
The third reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, 14 November, in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm.
Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Cambridge: Foule Press, 2012) and SATELLITES (Tokyo: Tipped Press, 2012) and has a book forthcoming from Critical Documents. ‘An inter-galactic stargate opens. Titan falls through it.’
Frances Kruk is the author of A Discourse on Vegetation & Motion (Cambridge: Critical Documents, 2008), DOWN YOU GO OR NÉGATION de BRUIT APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBER (Scarborough, ME: Punch Press, 2011) and DWARF SURGE (London: yt communication, 2013). ‘he cannot have your face he / cannot have your face’
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
Saturday 16th November, 20:30 start. Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA .
Susan Birchenough has been writing poetry for about 3 years. She had a poem published in the English PEN anthology “Catechism ” and has been shortlisted for the Erbacce poetry prize in 2012 and 2013. She has a particular interest in experimental and visual poetry and is a self-employed permaculturist.
Charlotte Henson is a young writer from Greater Manchester currently living in London. She is widely published, including appearances in Award-winning zine Rising, The Morning Star, and Sculpted: Poetry of the North West. Her upcoming collection Every Street will be published by erbacce. She edits the zine Astronaut.
Lindsey Holland’s collection Particle Soup (2012) is available from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. She co-edited the anthologySculpted: Poetry of the North West and edited the anthology Not On Our Green Belt. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in publications including Tears in the Fence, The New Writer, B O D Y, Estuary, Verse Kraken, Sabotage Reviews, Penning Perfumes, and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. She studied Writing at the University of Warwick and now teaches poetry on the Creative Writing programme at Edge Hill University, where she is a PhD candidate. She is the founder member and driving force behind North West Poets.
Steven Waling is the author of Calling On the Phone, Travelator and Captured Yes. A new collection Hello GCHQ is forthcoming from Department.
not just another saint
MAGMA Magazine Issue 57 : Visual poetry
MAGMA poetry magazine Issue 57 is dedicated to Visual Poetry and is edited by Ian McEwen and Hannah Lowe. It will be launched with readings by contributors at The Troubadour, 263 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5 9JA on Monday 18 November at 8.00pm. The issues features The Shaped Poem, an article by Paula Claire, with illustrations by Mirella Bentivoglio, Karl Kempton, Fernando Aguiar and Shoji Yoshizawa. Paula Claire’s own work is represented by her scorch mark poem MAGMA (1973), shown above, published by Writers Forum in 1978.
seekers of lice at the Small Publishers Fair
Other Room performer seekers of lice will be showing a short film on Saturday 16th November at 2.30pm at the Small Publishers Fair (Conway Hall, Red Lion Square).
This year’s Fair brings together presses from across the UK – from Cornwall to the Vale of Glamorgan, and from Kent to Edinburgh. They will be joined by publishers from Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands and Norway.
Key organisations from the world of small publishing and artists’ books will also attend: artistsbooksonline, bookartbookshop, Boekie Woekie, The Saison Poetry Library; Book Arts, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, and Royal Holloway MA Poetic Practice.
BOB COBBING ABC IN SOUND
This exhibition runs in Liverpool until 22nd November. Read Tony Lopez’s reflections here.
Heiligenschein : Petrarch Sonnets 160 – 180
Typewriter – an artist book for writing
Written using ‘Q’ by mIEKAL aND, ‘W’ by Alice Simpson, ‘E’ by E – Ambassadeur d’Utopia, Ana Buigues, ‘R’ by Carl Baker, Julie Shaw Lutts, ‘T’ by Maria Pisano, Janelle Scolaro, ‘Y’ by Halvard Johnson, ‘U’ by Maria Pisano, ‘I’ by INTERLICHTSPIELHAUS, ‘O’ by Ana Buigues, ‘P’ by Dennis Ruud, Peter Bushell, ‘A’ by Margaret Lammerts, Ama Bolton, Leonard Seastone, Avril Makula, ‘S’ by Dennis Ruud, Maria Pisano, ‘D’ by Erin K. Schmidt, ‘F’ by Ana Buigues, ‘G’ by Peter Ciccariello, ‘H’ by Ana Buigues, ‘J’ by Ana Buigues, ‘K’ by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat), ‘L’ by Ethan Walker, ‘Z’ by Ama Bolton, ‘X’ by Bill Dimichele, Andrew Topel, Emily J. Martin, ‘C’ by Marilyn R. Rosenberg, ‘V’ by Nick Mattan, Ana Buigues, ‘B’ by Jim Andrews, ‘N’ by Bjørn Magnhildøen, ‘M’ by Jeff Harrison.
More here.
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