Saturday 23 March
1.0 – 2.00: Simon Smith, Adrian Clarke, S.J. Fowler
2.00-3.00: Redell Olsen, Drew Milne, Stephen Mooney
3.15-4.15: Jennie Coles, Rachel Dakin, Annie Runkle, Juliet Troy, Emma Wootton
4.15-5.15: Jeff Hilson, Nata Raha, Sophie Robinson
5.15-6.15: Will Rowe, Prue Chamberlain, Robert Hampson
6.15-7.15: David Herd, David Miller, Frances Presley
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1X 9NG
King’s Cross Underground
All events Free
Tuesday 19th March. 7.30 at The Gregson Arts and Community Centre, (Olive Bar), 33 Moorgate, Moor Lane, Lancaster, LA1 3PY.
Free entrance. Open bar. Books to browse and buy.
press free press RESPOND to two works from the Poetry Library’s current exhibition of visual poetics, running until 14 April 2013: Liliane Lijn, ‘A for Elm’ & ‘Jewel in the Woods’ and Giles Goodland, ‘Hand Made Poem’.
Patrick Coyle will perform at the next Other Room on Monday April 8th at The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. For an indication of his singing skills, try this clip of Patrick performing with Holly Pester at SJ Fowler’s Camarade event in 2011. For more of his work, visit his site or his YouTube channel. The other readers will be Sarah Crewe, Rhys Trimble and Chrissy Williams. Previews of all three to follow over the next few weeks.
Enemies of the North – March Saturday 30th at the Cornerhouse in Manchester. 5.30pm to 9pm in the Annexe room – entrance free. A special Camarade event, a day of original collaborations in poetry, sonic art and visual art, celebrating the resurgent energy of the northwest innovative poetry scene. In addition to the launch of 3 collaborative publications involving SJ Fowler, the event will feature performance by:
Jeff Hilson, Alan Halsey, Angela Gardner, Andrew Duncan, Zoe Brigley, David Gledhill, Paul A. Green, Chris Torrance, Katerina Ilianopoulou, Laurie Duggan, Christopher Twigg, Adrianne Kalfopoulou. Out now at the Junction Box site.
The University of Liverpool’s ‘Port of Call’ international poetry reading series features eight international poets and translators from India, Singapore, Canada, Morocco, France and the United States for an exciting programme of readings and discussions.
March 14th, 5-6pm: Singaporean poet Alvin Pang and British poet James Byrne (translator of Burmese poetry) will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
March 21st, 5-6pm: Belarussian poet Valzhyna Mort and Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
April 24th,5-6pm: American poet Marilyn Hacker and Moroccan poet Rachida Madani will read for 25 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
May 8th, 5-6pm: Canadian poet Priscila Uppal with read with British-Indian poet Tishani Doshi for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
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Out now on Shearsman.
Out now on Stephen Emmerson’s new launched blart books.
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:30.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
The first installment of new media poetry night Syndicate explores the meaning of authorship and identity in a digital context in an evening of poetry readings, music, discussions and web-art screenings.
Sophie Robinson is a London-based poet who is currently working on a long poem about Soviet space travel. She’s interested in the experimental sonnet, contemporary revisions of lyric, and queer space and time. Sophie was Poet in Residence at the V&A in 2011.
Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet with an interest in digital poetics. Tonight, he’ll share works made using Chris Westbury’s ‘user-configurable dynamic textual projective surface’ JanusNode, and wrestle with their critical and theoretical contexts.
Dorothy Butchard is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh who is exploring the ramifications of new media for established narrative techniques and the representation of marginal communities in literary space. She’ll be curating two pieces of digital art and sharing ideas from her research.
Syndicate will close with Edinburgh poet and musician Illiop, whose electronic music is often reminiscent of the call of the Namaqua rainfrog, and/or the sound of a hundred ribbons tied to industrial machines: tonight it will be reminiscent of the voices we’ve just heard. Syndicate brings together writers, musicians, artists and researchers working in and in response to digital technologies, new media and evolving network practices. It is organised by Lila Matsumoto, Jo L Walton and Samantha Walton, in collaboration with Inspace.
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Wednesday 13 March 7:30pm. The Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale Street, Liverpool, L2 2JH.
Readings from:
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Out now as free PDF and as mp3 on Beard of Bees.
“I realised I could use the sounds of a Polish man speaking to write poetry in English. This was the seed of the idea of The Homophone Translator. As a basis for the translation project, I wrote a short story, Silver Linear Cloud, in English. Then, I asked several competent translators to translate one or more of the nine sections of the story into other languages. I provided recordings of the English sections and they returned recordings of their language translation.
Once I received the foreign language translations, I “homophonically” translate the recorded words back into English. To do this, I listened to the sounds repeatedly until English words or sounds emerged I was interested in the process of constructing new poems, being inspired by sounds, rather than following the stereotypical path of seeing translation as an accurate transportation of meaning.”
The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Tuesday 12th March 2012, 7.30. £4.50.
Tim Allen Edited the magazine Terrible Work and ran the Poetry Exchange and Language Club events in Plymouth. Now lives near Preston. Publications include Settings (Shearsman 2008), Anabranch with Slug – a robotic pastoral in honor of Raymond Roussel (Knives Forks & Spoons 2011), incidental harvest (Oystercatcher 2011) and The Voice Thrower (Shearsman 2012), a single long poem of 333 quatrains described by Ian Seed as ‘the fragmented bildungsroman of a generation who have grown up in a postmodern world’. Also co-edited a book of interviews with British poets, Don’t Start Me Talking (Salt 2006).His poetry, though situated in the post-avant, innovative and radical streams, has its roots in symbolist euphony and surrealism.
There will be launch readings by Lindsey Holland, Andrew Taylor and Patricia Farrell.
Thursday 14 March The Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG.
Free entry, 7pm Contemporary Poetics Research Centre and MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway.
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 7.00 PM – 8.30 PM Tickets: £5/£3
Part of Northern Elements, which develops spoken word in the North of England through commissions of new, imaginative and high quality spoken word material, the Bluecoat is working with independent promoter Michael Egan to present performances celebrating lost stories and forgotten voices. Chris McCabe’s commission Mudflats explores where history, language and memory meet across generations for one Liverpool family, played out against the backdrop of an ever changing city and the river that flows through all their lives. Programme also includes Dinesh Allirajah, James Byrne, Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Sharp.
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Wednesday, 20 March, 6.30 PM, Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.
Linda Black’s exhibition of drawings and prints draws on her new book, The Son of a Shoemaker’ (Hearing Eye, 2012). The sequence of nineteen prose poems,based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen, is illustrated by the author. The exhibition includes other illustrations and etchings. There will be a reading and a musical performance.
In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.
Dworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry; he compares Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased De Kooning Drawing to the artist Nick Thurston’s erased copy of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature (in which only Thurston’s marginalia were visible); and he scrutinizes the sexual politics of photographic representation and the implications of obscured or obliterated subjects of photographs. Reexamining the famous case of John Cage’s 4’33”, Dworkin links Cage’s composition to Rauschenberg’s White Paintings, Ken Friedman’s Zen for Record (and Nam June Paik’s Zen for Film), and other works, offering also a “guide to further listening” that surveys more than 100 scores and recordings of “silent” music.
Dworkin argues that we should understand media not as blank, base things but as social events, and that there is no medium, understood in isolation, but only and always a plurality of media: interpretive activities taking place in socially inscribed space.
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