Music without instruments, songs without lyrics, refrains without meaning, improvisations of sometimes just a single voice, at Department.
Tom Jenks
Tony Lopez at The Arnolfini
For those in or around Bristol, Tony Lopez’s animated text More and More will be shown as part of the Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend, on now at the Arnolfini gallery. Much else of interest, including a talk by recent Other Room reader Harry Gilonis.
Knives Forks and Spoons book launch
- Peter Hughes
- Sarah James
- Robert Sheppard
Saturday, 21 September 2013, 1 pm start.
MelloMello, 40-42 Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BX.
Endless / Nameless ~ Rachel Sills & Richard Barrett
The gingerbread silhouette of my father
Is absent today I’m perspiring
Or you could say shimmering over a coastline
In a row pegged-out, colour coded
Three weeks’ worth of hearts
A Freudian couch with sponge cake perhaps?
An arrow, a narrowboat, arrowroot blot
A stair-lift stops, temperamentally
I decline to use the honesty box
But am generous for life-guards
On a good day, only on a good day
A magazine before dinner before, later, the paper
The evening smell of tobacco
‘Papa?’ I hear; to which I answer ‘yes, Nicole?’
More at The Red Ceilings.
Hi Zero
Wednesday 28th August, doors at 7:30pm for an 8:30pm start. £4 entry. Readings from Joshua Clover, Cathy Wagner and Rachel Galvin; upstairs at The Hope on Queen’s Road in Brighton. A new issue of Hi Zero magazine will be on sale for the first time, featuring a special Oakland scene report guest edited by David Buuck and with poems by Andrew Kenower, Lara Durback, Joshua Clover, Wendy Trevino, Bill Luoma, Jackqueline Frost, Jasper Bernes, Juliana Spahr, David Lau and Oki Sogumi, and also featuring poetry by Dana Ward, Cathy Wagner, Jeff Nagy and an essay on Justin Katko, Jow Lindsay, Jonty Tiplady and Kenny G.
Poetics titles from Litteraria Pragensia on Kindle
CROSSROADS POETICS
by Michel Delville
Bringing together readings of Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Louis Feuillade, Rosmarie Waldrop, Frank Zappa, Bill Viola and Pierre Alechinsky, this book attempts to delineate the possibility of a truly transversal poetics, one which creates a space for a reconsideration of contemporary poetics while navigating the complex interactions between the theory and practice.
COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007
eds. Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves, with Thomas Day, Keston Sutherland, Alizon Brunning, Robin Purves, J.H. Prynne, Bruce Stewart, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Thomson, Craig Dworkin, Sophie Read, Sara Crangle, Malcolm Phillips, Tom Jones, Josh Robinson, Sam Ladkin, Jennifer Cooke, Ian Patterson.
AVANT-POST: The Avant-Garde under “Post-” Conditions
ed. Louis Armand, with Johanna Drucker, Michael S. Begnal, Lisa Jarnot, Ann Vickery, Christian Bök, Robert Archambeau, Mairead Byrne, R.M. Berry, Trey Strecker, Keston Sutherland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Sheppard, Bonita Rhoads, Vadim Erent, Laurent Milesi, Esther Milne.
HIDDEN AGENDAS: Unreported Poetics
ed. Louis Armand, with Ali Alizadeh, Livio Beloi, Jeremy Davies, Stephan Delbos, Michel Delville, Johanna Drucker, Michael Farrel, Allen Fisher, D.J. Huppatz, Vincent Katz, Stephen Muecke, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Kyle Schlesinger, Robert Shepperd, Stephanie Strickland, John Wilkinson.
zimZalla 020: James Davies – A dog
zimZalla object 020 is A dog by James Davies. Using a portion of Saving the Sentence from Gertrude Stein’s How to Write, A dog is a sixteen panel minimalist sequence on yellow card, presented in a yellow box. More here.
Rhys Trimble: Paper on Processual Poetics and Nygraumancy Smoothie Diet
Online at VerySmallKitchen.
New from Crater Press
Crater Press is pleased to announce a Crater pamphlet by Buffalo letterpress buffalo Richard Owens; nine stanzas of ‘Turncoat’ in an attractive articulated broad-but-thin-side arrangement. Anyone who knows Richard Owens will suspect that this will be the real deal and it is the real deal. Two colour; different modes; handprinted, unusual folding, 36 lines of A* poetry.
Stephen Emmerson: new visual pieces
A range of visual pieces by Stephen Emmerson, including his The Last Ward series, up now on his website.
David Berridge & Tom Jenks readings at Free Verse
if p then q authors Berridge and Jenks launch their new collections at The Free Verse Poetry Fair.
7th September. London. 7.30 sharp.
Click the poster to enlarge.
The Blue Bus
The Blue Bus is pleased to present an event featuring poetry by Chris McCabe, Andrew Taylor and David Miller, with music from David Miller and Rod Boucher, on Tuesday 20th August, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eightieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
The Other Room tonight
2 new Reality Street books
Sept 2013, 978-1-874400-63-9, 134pp, price £9.50
Sept 2013, 978-1-874400-64-6, 148pp, price £9.50
Streak Artefacts – Tom Jenks
A 100 poem sequence with intermittent visuals, out now from Department Press.
A Poet’s Response: S.J. Fowler
“The poet and wrestler S.J. Fowler considers here the ‘kernel of realism’ in Wrestlers and the relationship of Gaudier-Brzeska’s sculptures to the poetry of Ezra Pound. Included is a suite of ten poems Fowler wrote in 2012, which were inspired by, and dedicated to, the original relief and its nine casts.”
More at the Tate Gallery Site.
12 or 20 (small press) questions with Nikolai Duffy on Like This Press
I’ve “…been really interested in the physicality of books and book production for a while, an interest that was piqued in particular when I visited the Tyopgraphy Museum in London several years ago. I think it’s more established now but it was an old, ramshackle place then, hard to find, largely unorganised, with boxes of type lying out on every surface. It was a place in which to lose yourself.” Nikolai Duffy talks about Like This Press on Rob Mclennan’s blog.
WFN
The next meeting of the writers’ group will be on Saturday, August 24th at Terrace bar, Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, 2 – 4 pm. Bring a poem of your own and poem by someone else you like. Bring copies if possible.
Charmless and Interesting: What Conceptual Poetry Lacks and What It’s Got
“This is a moment, then, for an assessment of the virtues and vices of conceptual poetry. What does conceptual poetry lack, compared to other poetries, and what does it have to offer? Any brief answer will, of course, be too general, but we can begin to sketch things out with reference to two aesthetic categories: the charming and the interesting. Whatever else conceptualism has got going for it, it lacks—at least in its pure form—the former. And whether one likes conceptualism or not, anyone who has engaged with it has found that it has, wonderfully or frustratingly, got plenty of the latter.”
More by Robert Archambeau at Harriet.
Alison Gibb – Silent Diagrams
Silent Diagrams is a series of pencil drawing over a single poem. The drawings document my process of visualizing poetic activity to create diagrams, which illustrate and generates spaces for live performance. The diagrams were originated during the development of Thus in the crossing, a poetic dance performance in collaboration with choreographer Elaine Thomas. Out now on Knives, Forks and Spoons.
otherroom.org 