First installment of a brand new reading series at Edge Hill University.
Tom Jenks
Free Verse Poetry Book Fair
Free Verse is an all-day bazaar, market, library, meeting place, performance venue, information resource and more. Celebrating the vitality of contemporary poetry in the UK, publishers both large and small, both experimental and traditional, display and sell their work direct to the public. This year’s Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair will take place on
Saturday 30th September 2017 at Conway Hall in London! More details, including a list of publishers attending and readings, here.
Saturday 30th September 2017 at Conway Hall in London! More details, including a list of publishers attending and readings, here.
Andrew Taylor: March
Building on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman Books, 2013) Andrew Taylor takes the reader on a journey through landscapes and places such as the Welsh hills, the West Coast Mainline and the north docks of Liverpool.
Travel is a recurring theme throughout these poems, alongside music and the seasons and the shifts they bring. From having coffee in quiet city-centre cafés to travelling around complete rail networks, Taylor invites the reader into a world that is both personal and universal. Out now on Shearsman.
The book will be launched on 28th September at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham, with readings also by Rory Waterman and Kathryn Daskiewicz. Details of that here.
Datableed #8
Out now, with Brenda Iijima, Beth Hopkins, Catherine Wagner, David Buuck, Aristilde Kirby, James Goodwin, Colin Lee Marshall, Florence Uniacke, Allen Fisher, Black Ponds], Oscar Towe, Victoria Ward, Jonathan Skinner, Patricia Farrell, Angus Sinclair, Jill Khoury, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, bruno neiva, Kathrine Sowerby, Sean Bonney, Lucia Sellars, Ethereal], Sarah Cave, Geoffrey Gatza, Ellen Dillon, hiromi suzuki, Will Maclean, Florence Lenaers, Robert Kiely, Rebecca Close, William Fuller, Tessa Berring, Carol Dalton, cris cheek, Saskia McCracken, Keith Tuma, Eleanor Careless & Dominic Hale.
Molly Bloom 14
With Dorothy Lehane, Sheila Hamilton, Anthony Mellors, Frances Presley, David Greenslade, Rachel Sills, Ian Seed, Jon Thompson, Sarah James, Laurie Duggan, Dave Shortt, Iain Britton, John Muckle & Aidan Semmens, here.
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette #24
Saturday 23rd September
An afternoon of alternative poetries
4.00 – 6.00, Deansgate Waterstones
Free entry, free wine
Sally Barrett, Cathy Butterworth, Calum Gardner, Judith Goldman, Claire Potter
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SALLY BARRETT ~
lives and writes in Manchester, works in Salford and is from the right side of the Pennines (Leeds). She has been published by Redceilings blog, 3am Magazine (in collaboration), Hypnopomp magazine and will be published in Picaroon magazine later this year. She has self-published a booklet titled ‘They’re coming to take me away’ and one in collaboration: ‘67, 100, sometimes 10’. Her blog can be found at mcbarrettblog.wordpress.com.
CATHY BUTTERWORTH ~
is an artist who makes work at the intersection of writing, performance and visual art. Her recent pamphlet Cimmerian was published by Dock Road Press. Performance actions, writing and visual art projects include: Sketches for Britain (Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2010), 22 Mondays (durational performance with Mark Greenwood, 2015), Everyone in Your Life is a Figment of Your Imagination (Delhi, 2015), Elective Affinities (Tate Liverpool 2016) and True Blue: 26 Lost Performances (2016). Her literary object, Fortunate, was published by zimZalla in December 2016.
CALUM GARDNER ~
is a poet and the editor of Zarf magazine, and currently teaches at the University of Leeds. Calum’s poems have been published in places like datableed, Poetry Wales, The Literateur, and Jungftak.
JUDITH GOLDMAN ~
is the author of Vocoder (Roof), Deathstar/Rico-chet (O Books), l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya), and agon (The Operating System). Her current project _______ Mt. [blank mount]: “Mont Blanc” + Mont Blanc / light + color / grieving Earth writes through past futures and future histories of ecological catastrophe, using the lens of Mont Blanc. She is core faculty in the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo and Poetry Features Editor for Postmodern Culture.
CLAIRE POTTER ~
Born in Merseyside, Claire Potter is an artist writer working across performance, publication, installation and film to reconsider modes of reading, writing and speaking by giving precedence to forms of vernacular and modes of articulation. Author of Mental Furniture (VerySmallKitchen, 2014) and Round That Way (Ma Bibliotheque, 2017). Collaborates with all necessary difficulty and joy on trauma-focused sonic works with artist and musician Bridget Hayden. More info at clairepotter.net
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir at The Other Room
Part of our evening of poetry from Iceland in July. More films here.
Canalchemy Nantgarw
Nantgarw China Works Museum, Tyla Gwyn, CF15 7TB Nantgarw, Rhondda Cynon Taff. Saturday, September 23 at 2 PM.
Canalchemy at Nantgarw China Works Museum Saturday 23rd of September 2-4pm. Poetry performance and exhibition of the Canalchemy project so far: including live performances, as well as images and films of previous performances by Lyndon Davies, Rhys Trimble, Nia Polly Watts Davies, Chris Paul, Wanda O’Connor, John Maher, Julia Lewis, John Goodby, Mamta Sagar, Allen Fisher, Anthony Mellors and Steven Hitchins filmed on location at sites along the route of the Glamorganshire canal. Arrive before if you want a look around the china works.
Judith Goldman & Eley Williams
Monday, September 18 at 7 PM. Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre, 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 3RF. Free.
JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof, 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books, 2006). l.b.;or catenaries (Krupskaya, 2011) and agon (The Operating System, 2017). She teaches in the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo and is the Poetry Features Editor for the online journal Postmodern Culture. She is currently at work on —- Mt. [blank mount], a critical-creative project that writes through P.B. Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the context of past futures and future histories of ecological collapse, and she recently performed a collaborative digital poetics project Ice Core Modulations, at The Ammerman Centre Biennal Symposium on Arts and Technology (2016). Her scholarship focuses on contemporary poetry as “extinction sink.”
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ELEY WILLIAMS debut prose collection Attrib. And Other Stories (Influx Press) was chosen by Ali Smith as one of the best debut works of fiction published in 2017. Twice short-listed for the White Review Short Story Prize, works have appeared in the London Review of Books, the White Review, Ambit and the Cambridge Literary Review. Currently co-editor of fiction at online journal 3:AM Magazine, a new pamphlet of poetry Frit (Sad Press) was published in July 2017.
Matthew Welton at The Other Room
Both parts of Matthew Welton’s reading for us in June.
Theodoros Chiotis: limit.less_an assembly of the sick
This narrative poem attempts to map the visible and invisible limits that sick and afflicted bodies must endure socially and clinically. In a society obsessed with optimum health and perfect bodies, limit.less rethinks the narrative limits of writing the body, raising important questions surrounding solidarity and empathy with (other) sick bodies. Out now on Litmus Publishing.
Boiler House Press
New publications by Colin Herd, Marianne Morris, Emily Critchley and Jeff Hilson, available separately or as a bundle. More here.
Adrian Slatcher: Interesting Drug #3
Yoko Ono’s early 1970s albums have just been reissued on vinyl, so time for a reappraisal of this remarkable artist, musician and icon, including tracks from throughout her career and some associated Fluxus. In addition, we have obituarities for Sam Shephard, Peter Principle of Tuxedo Moon and Glenn Campbell, and focus on art exhibitions at Liverpool Tate, Henry Moore Institute and the Turner Contemporary, Margate. All in just over an hour with music from Ono, Beck, Kurt Schwitters, Patti Smith and others.
New episode of Adrian’s podcast, available here.
KFS at Blackpool Illuminations
Exhibiting work by: Sue Birchenough, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Gareth Farmer, Dylan Harris, Irene Koronas, Julia Lewis, D. E. Oprava, Scott Thurston, Rhys Trimble, and Lydia Unsworth, until 5th November.
Ten Thousand Things by Emily Critchley
Out now on Boiler House Press.
Zarf nine
poems by
adam warne, vik shirley, eley williams,
julius smit, nat raha, edric mesmer,
katy lewis hood, tom crompton, lana hughes,
katie fanthorpe, ellen dillon, gloria dawson,
william fuller, ian cross, rey conquer,
imogen cassels, and eleanor careless
PLUS nisha ramayya reviews eley williams
AND maria sledmere reviews emilia weber
More here.
Hi Zero #53
26th September, 7.30 PM. The Hope & Ruin, 11-12 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA.
Hi Zero returns for another season. Number fifty-three, featuring a complete reading of Verity Spott and Timothy Thornton’s “Poems,” plus more to be announced.
TIMOTHY THORNTON & VERITY SPOTT
Timothy Thornton’s books of poetry include ‘Jocund Day’ (Mountain Press), ‘Working Together for a Safer London’ (Barque Press), and his poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals. He is a composer and musician, and lives in Brighton.
Verity Spott’s books include: ‘Gideon’ (Barque Press), ‘Balconette’ (Veer Books), ‘We Will Bury You’ (also Veer), ‘Trans* Manifestos’ (Shit Valley), ‘Three Poems’ (collab with Megan Alan – Sad Press), ‘Click Away Close Door Say’ (Contraband), ‘Effort to No’ (Iodine), and ‘Poems’ (with Timothy Thornton – Face Press). Work has appeared in Salvage, Prelude, Sundial, Tripwire, Cesura, The Assasin, Litmus, Clinic 4, Alba Londers 07, Romulan Soup Woman and No Prizes issues four and five. She lives in Brighton, where she co-organises the monthly Horseplay night of readings and performances.
Timothy Thornton and Verity Spott wrote ‘Poems’ together, which is published by the beautiful Face Press, and which will be read in its entirety on the night, and available to buy, eat, etc.
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LINDA STUPART
Linda Stupart is an artist, writer, and educator from Cape Town, South Africa, recently completing their PhD in the Art Department at Goldsmiths College with a project engaged in new considerations of objectification. They had a solo show at Arcadia Missa in March 2016, ‘A Dead Writer Exists in Words and Language is a Type of Virus,’ and recently launched their debut novella, ‘Virus,’ also at Arcadia Missa. Their work has been the focus of two solo exhibitions in Cape Town and has also recently been shown/performed at Matt’s Gallery, The Showroom, a.m. gallery, the ICA, Gasworks, and Guest Projects in London.
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MITCHEL PASS
Mitchael Pass is a poet and student of poetry at the University of Sussex.
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The usual music from a thing, books, a bar, etcetera. £3 on the door, upstairs at The Hope & Ruin, just down from the station on Queen’s Road, Brighton.
Accessibility information:
The Hope & Ruin has a stepped street entrace of approx. 10-15cm, and two flights of stairs from the pub level to the venue on the first floor. There is a wheelchair accessible gender nuetral toilet on the ground floor of the pub in the stairwell, but the m/f toilets on the first floor (the venue) are not wheelchair accessible. There is a bar in the venue, and plenty of seating.
This information is not exhaustive, so If you have any other accessibility inquiries, please contact us (Joe Luna or Eleanor Careless) or the venue.
Bryony Bates – States
16pp, A4, card cover, hand assembled with cord binding, presented in clear archival sleeve. Out now on Enjoy Your Homes Press.
The Lost Signals Collection
For two days–September 11 and 12–Lost Signals will be accepting submissions:
- please submit either an image, audio file, or text fragment that you have discovered
- the archivists will examine your submission and cross-reference it with the over 6 million fragments in our collection
- we will then attempt to decipher your submission
- if that proves successful, we will publish your submission along with our commentary here at the site
- please send your submissions to the Supervisory Archivist, care of Nicholas Rombes: nrombesudm@gmail.com
- submissions are open from 5:00 am EST 11 September through 11:59 pm EST 12 September
More here.
otherroom.org 