Out now. Read about it here.
Tom Jenks
Robert Sheppard: Bad Poems for Bad People
Robert Sheppard’s prose piece dedicated to Sean Bonney is online at Intercapillary Space.
Otoliths 26
New issue out now, including work by SJ Fowler, James McLaughlin and Jo Langton, above.
zimZalla 016: Female Versions of Christ by j/j hastain
Nine texts accompanied by eight illuminations. The texts, printed on high quality textured card, are discrete but kindred blocks, obliquely referenced and counterpointed by the illuminations, which are full colour collages, printed on transparencies. The texts and illuminations are in labelled envelopes, with these envelopes in turn housed inside a full colour outer envelope. More information, including how to buy, can be found at the zimZalla site.
Stephen Emmerson: Albion
Stephen Emmerson
Albion – 9th & 10th August @ Inland Studios, Camberwell
6pm – 9pm
A poem-installation
William Blake was a visionary English poet and artist who wrote, etched, and printed illuminated books. He despised organised religion, but claimed to see visions of angels and devils, and regularly spoke to the spirit of his dead brother.
Whilst living on Hercules Road in Lambeth he composed many of his prophetic works including ‘The Book of Urizen’,’The Four Zoas’, and ‘Europe: A Prophecy’.
He also set his poems to music, though there are no surviving notations.
Albion is a poem-installation based on psychogeographical information and psychic and paranormal investigations that explore Blake’s complex methods of composition and mythopoetics. It is also an attempt to reconnect with the political aspects of Blake’s work.
Albion is an invitation to help Blake complete a new poetic work. Participants can channel Blake using a pentagram and a series of typewriters, and by translating the audiovisual landscape into text.
Inland Studios
25a Camberwell Church Street
London
SE5 8TR
Maggie O’Sullivan at eclipse
An important addition to the essential online archive sees eight of Maggie O’Sullivan’s early books now available for free reading and download:
Concerning Spheres, 1982
An Incomplete Natural History, 1984
Un-Assuming Personas, 1985
A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts, 1985
From the Handbook of That & Furriery, 1986
Divisions of Labour, 1986
States of Emergency, 1987
Unofficial Word, 1988
plus eXcLa (1993, written in collaboration with Bruce Andrews). The first eight titles are also available in black and white facsimile in Maggie’s book Body of Work (Reality Street, 2006).
Stealth-Exile-Inventory
Neil (Fraser) Addison’s first full collection, Stealth-Exile-Inventory is now available via gosubsist in printed and bound form. And also as a boxed set (as if the House of Lentheric fell to gift-wrapping aura with added value
in mind). Death, Ikea, Basquiat, etc.
Xing the Line: Three for a Fiver
Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 7:30pm. The Apple Tree, London WC1X.
- Tim Atkins
- Steven Fowler
- Fabian Macpherson
Iain Britton: tusitala of white lies
New pamphlet out now from Nikolai Duffy’s Like This press:
“Comprising six sequences, tusitala of white lies is a meditative, fragile and frequently beautiful collection of poems. Concerned with delicacy of phrase as well as the space of the page, Iain’s poetry is about breath, and thought, and the way language maps the shape and rhythm of a life.”
Knives Forks and Spoons: latest releases
Alec Newman’s juggernaut rolls on unchecked with new publications appearing regularly. Latest out of the infernal machine is Paul Sutton’s Cabin Fever.
4somes: Veer Books Launch
Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 8:00pm.
Poetry Library, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Veer Books will launch a new series of variously named publications featuring work by younger innovative writers, four at a time, called ‘VierSomes’ (or ‘4somes’ or ‘Quartets’ …)
This event will launch the series with readings from some of the featured authors:
Becky Cremin, Amy Evans, Edward Hardy, Danny Hayward, Frances Kruk, slmendoza, Nat Raha
Admission free but space is limited – to book a place guests must email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk
PoemTalk: Charles Reznikoff
A discussion with Peter Cole, Henry Steinberg, and Michelle Taransky, of two poems by Charles Reznikoff from the PennSound archive. Number 56 in the PoemTalk series.
Program notes and links to the PoemTalk discussion and recordings of the poems are available at Jacket2 and at the Poetry Foundation:
https://jacket2.org/content/poem-talk
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/3490
Establishment Magazine
New online magazine of poetics, reviews, vispo, art and essays, edited my James McLaughlin, Jo Langton and Alec Newman. Launching 1st August here.
DEPT/zimZalla
Crater Press – Jeff Hilson
Jeff Hilson, From ORGAN MUSIC: AN ANTI-MASQUE NOT FOR DANCING, a new and ongoing narrative and non-narrative sequence (not) about the English organ adding obfuscation to an already obfusced instrument. Available now at the Crater Press site.
Seaside Special
Seaside Special, a set of 31 literary postcards by Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe with an all star cast including John Betjeman, Allen Ginsberg and an unfeasibly large sausage, is now available for £10 plus £2.50 post and packaging in the UK and £5.00 post and packaging elsewhere. To view the project online and buy a set, go here. Just the thing for a donkey ride with a maiden aunt.
The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
“…if we take Conceptualism and Conservatism as two poles in our current poetry culture, as you are proposing, then the curious thing is that the most extreme examples at either pole converge in one very important way: in the purported transparency of their language. Both subordinate the materiality of language to other aims: for the Conservator, the goal is emotional identification achieved through either narrative, or the semblance of epiphany, or what have you, and for the Conceptualist, the goal is revelation of the framework which governs the text. ” Matvei Yankelevich responds to Marjorie Perloff at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ways of Describing Cuts
A collaborative chapbook by Steven Fowler and Sarah Kelly, out now on the unstoppable Knives Forks and Spoons.
MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH… Kenneth Goldsmith
From Radi0 Web Macba: “Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb – the most important online repository on sound experimentation –, takes us on a journey through his personal history as a collector of sounds that spans from his childhood to adult life and the creation of Ubuweb, by way of different stages of obsession with what he calls the ‘accumulation of cultural artefacts’.”
The Robin Hood Book
131 poets in support of a Robin Hood tax. Includes Other Room readers Ira Lightman, Chris McCabe and Steven Waling. Out now at The Recusant.
otherroom.org 