Friday, November 30, 2012, 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
Room 632, Birkbeck, University of London, Main campus: Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX
- Tim Atkins
- Albert Pellicer
- Elizabeth Guthrie
- Tom Slingsby
- Silvia Terrón
Tom Jenks
Theatre of Objects
Knives Forks and Spoons in Liverpool
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12:00pm until 3:00pm.
The Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale Street, Liverpool, L3 2JH.
- Geraldine Monk
- D. E. Oprava
- Bobby Parker
- Ian Seed
The Debris Field
The Debris Field: Salvaging The Titanic in Word, Sound and Image, Thu 15 Nov 8pm, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Check the site for tickets.
In this new, multi-media production, a key historic event – the sinking of the Titanic – is explored. Evocative text and performance by poets Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe, with original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The performance takes you on a resonant tour of the cultural debris of this iconic catastrophe.
Allen Fisher symposium
Seekers of Lice: a preview
Seekers of Lice will perform at The Other Room on Wednesday 5th December, at the Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester. 7 PM start. Free entry. The other performers are Alec Newman and Nat Raha. Previews of both will appear on the site over the next few week.
Bio.
seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch.
seekers of lice creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. Its practice is concerned with objects and text.
Works range from interventions, participation in curated projects and exhibitions in galleries to book publishing and multiples.
In 2012 work by seekers of lice has been published in Soanyway 13, quarter after, VerySmallKitchen, Rattle 3 and VLAK 3. The most recent book is THEATRE OF OBJECTS published by VerySmallKitchen in November 2012.
Links:
Theatre of Objects at VerySmallKitchen.
Artist profile at the Axis site.
A Minor Poet of the Twenty-First Century: text.
Leaves, read at X Marks the Bökship.
The Bride of L’Amor-mor-l’amor at onedit.
Text pieces in quarter after.
Composite feedback – films
Films from this Mercy organised event at Manchester’s Cornerhouse are now available, featuring SJ Fowler, Nathan Jones and Hannah Silva, above. You can also watch SJ Fowler’s lecture on poetry and violence.
poetry /// from Department Press
Binders Full of Women’s Poems
A binder, full of outspoken poems by writers who identify as female, trans, intersex or gender-neutral, featuring Sarah Crewe, Nia Davies, Amy Evans, Maria Gornell, Sarah Hesketh, Kirsten Irving, Mara Katz, Rowena Knight, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Agnes Marton, Sophie Mayer, Sally McAlister, Michelle McGrane, slmendoza, Steph Pike, Chella Quint, Nat Raha, Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Jacqueline Saphra, Claire Trévien, Jackie Wills, Alison Winch. More here.
London Small Publishers Fair
Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November 2012. Open 11am to 7pm admission free. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers, The programme of readings and talks includes Sean Pemberton, Giles Goodland, Johan de Wit and Robert Sheppard reading for Reality Street on Saturday 16th at 4PM. More about the fair here.
Alloa Poetry Jamboree
We’ve posted about this before, but the full itinerary for this event, starting tomorrow, is now available and is:
FRIDAY 2nd November
7:30pm JAM
Frank Kuppner, Peter Manson, Samantha Walton and Andrew Duncan
Alloa Tower, Alloa Park, Alloa FK10 1PP. £5 (£3 concessions)
SATURDAY 3rd November
1. 10.30-11.00
Dorothy Alexander
nick-e melville
Alloa Tower, FREE
2. 2.00-4.00
Bill Herbert
Lila Matsumoto
David Kinloch
Jim Ferguson
Donny O’Rourke,
Alloa Tower, FREE
4.30-6pm
Workshop on Cut Up poetry run by Jennifer (JL) Williams of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Resonate Arts House, FREE
3. 7.30-9.20
Tom Leonard
Drew Milne
Kathleen Jamie
Alloa Tower, FREE
SUNDAY 4th November
Ochills Poetry Walk: walk and reading of poems commissioned for the event by:
Gerry Loose
Thomas A. Clarke
Leaving at 11am from Dollar Museum. FREE.
Read the brochure for more details. Book tickets via the booking portal.
The Blue Bus
Tuesday 13 November, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 – admission: £5 / £3 (concessions) .
Including readings by:
- Paul Buck
- Brian Marley
- Stephen Watts
- M J Weller
- David Miller
Catechism: Poems For Pussy Riot
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 19:30.
Thomas Restaurant & Bar, 49-51 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1NA.
Readers confirmed so far are
- Richard Barrett
- Leanne Bridgewater
- John Calvert
- Ursula Hurley
- Judy Kendall
- Anna Percy
- Steph Pike
- Sian S. Rathore
- Adrian Slatcher
- Gareth Twose
- Steven Waling
with more readers to be added. For further information or to enquire about reading please contact barrett.richard1@googlemail.com
WFN
The next WFN meetings at Madlab, Edge Street Manchester, M4 1HN are:
- Saturday 15th December
- Saturday 19th January
Workshop runs from 2-4 pm. Bring a poem you like (by someone else) and copies of your own poems.
At the End of the World: Shearsman book launch
Wednesday 31 October at 7:00 pm
Sofia Gallery
(inside the Bulgarian Embassy)
186-188 Queen’s Gate
London SW7 5HL
More at the Shearsman site.
What is Field? Michael Pisaro talk
What is Field? Michael Pisaro and the Poetics of Geo-sound
Speaker: Michael Pisaro
Respondents: Paul Bavister, Drew Milne, Carol Watts
Monday 12 November, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 7pm
Presented by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London
This event is an exploration of the intersection of composition, text and field recording. American composer Michael Pisaro, a member of the Wandelweiser collective, will talk about his recent CDs July Mountain (the score of which develops from a poem by Wallace Stevens) and Crosshatches, a collaboration with Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. A panel of respondents will comment on the work presented: architect Paul Bavister (UCL/ Bartlett) and poet-critics Carol Watts (Birkbeck) and Drew Milne (Cambridge).
The Cinepoem project
Thursday November 22nd 2012 from 7.30 the Richmix arts centre, the main space. 35-47 Bethnal Green road, E1 6LA. 020 7613 7498. Free entrance for all.
- Tom Raworth & Avi Dabach
- Emanuella Amichai & SJ Fowler
- Tim Atkins & Ran Slavin
A ground breaking collaborative exchange between three Israeli film-makers / video artists and three British poets, translating the medium of poetry into the practise of film to produce three original, poetic films, or cinepoems.
The aim of the project is to transform the auspices of a selected, single poem into short, conceptual films, that will be screened on November 22nd in London, at the Richmix Arts centre. The event will also feature poetry readings from Tom Raworth, Tim Atkins and SJ Fowler, and a panel discussion exploring the unique nature of poetic / filmic collaboration and the potentiality of poetry as a medium adaptable to film.
The project is designed to show that the potential for poetry to be realised in the narrative of film and film-making may lay the path for a wide future between these mediums, enriching them both in the process. This is the first instalment of the Enemies project, a year long exploration of poetry and collaboration, curated by SJ Fowler, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Programme of events:
- A poetry reading by the poets: SJ Fowler, Tom Raworth, Tim Atkins.
- Ran Slavin will introduce a film based on Tim Atkins’ poem: ODES I / 32+ODES II /3
- – Avi Dabach will introduce a short film based on Tom Raworth’s poem “TAXOMONY”
- Emanuella Amichai will introduce a short film based on SJ Fowler’s poem :”38 meditations on strong tea”
- A panel discussion exploring the unique nature of poetic / filmic collaboration
- Please contact steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for details.
Paula Claire: BIRDBRAINED?
A second performance of Paula Claire‘s poem/artist’s book devoted to migrating birds will take place at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop in Oxford on Monday 12th November at 7.30 pm. Giles Goodland will also read. This is part of a series of poetry recitals and, where it overlaps, jazz and poetry evenings throughout November 2012.
Maggie O’Sullivan at Edge Hill
Maggie O’Sullivan
Rose Theatre (the Arts Centre, Edge Hill)
31st October 7.30-9.00
£4.50
Maggie O’ Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. In 1996 she edited Reality Street’s now classic anthology of innovative writing by women, Out of Everywhere (see below). Her work has been anthologised widely, including in Poems for the Millennium Vol 2. She lives in the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Charles Bernstein concludes: ‘O’Sullivan cleaves to charm: striating song with the visceral magic of shorn insistence.’
Just published by Reality Street in the form of five visually rich text sequences, Waterfalls is a companion to red shifts, both works comprising the poetic project her/story:eye (1994-99).
Maggie O’Sullivan at http://www.maggieosullivan.co.uk/
● WATERFALLS (new paperback edition: Hastings: Reality Street, 2012)
● murmur (London: Veer Books, 2011)
● ALTO (London: Veer Books, 2009)
● WATEFALLS (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2009)
● Windows Opening (Brooklyn, New York: Belladonna Chapbook #108, Belladonna Books, 2007)
● Body of Work (Hastings: Reality Street, 2006)
● “all origins are lonely” (London: Veer Books, 2003)
● Palace of Reptiles (Ontario: The Gig, 2003)
● red shifts (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan Books, 2001)
● etruscan reader III (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 1997)
● that bread should be (London: RWC issue 35, 1996)
● Ellen’s Lament (Toronto: PUSHYbroadsides, 1993)
● In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street, 1993)
She has performed a number of times at Edge Hill and this reading represents a welcome return to celebrate Waterfalls.
Also reading: Joanne Ashcroft and Tom Jenks.
The Other Room ensemble: ABC in Sound
Last night’s spectacular celebration of Bob Cobbing included an ensemble performance of his ABC in Sound, featuring Tim Allen, Joanne Ashcroft, Richard Barrett, Leanne Bridgewater, Matt Dalby, Phil Davenport, James Davies, Ollie Evans, Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Alan Halsey, Michael Haslam, Tom Jenks, Angela Keaton, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Holly Pester, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Slatcher, Scott Thurston, Gareth Twose, Steven Waling, Steve Willey and Nigel Wood. You can watch the film above.
Films of the first half readings by Clive Fencott and Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell will follow soon.
otherroom.org 