An experimental, highly affecting experimental poetry and music performance for unsuspecting audience at Liverpool Music Week, commissioned by Mercy.
Tom Jenks
Book launch: Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs
Via David Berridge:
Please join us at 7pm on Wed 25th January 2011 at X Marks the Bökship for a launch and performance reading of Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs, the inaugural title of the LemonMelon/VerySmallKitchen book series:
The conversation between a poet and an artist at their first meeting was recorded. An extract from the transcription is presented:
‘So how would you where would you how would you describe what you what you do?’
– Sarah Jacobs
This poet and artist are a slippery pair. The gaps left by their absent presence are clearly visible on the page as a space for the reader to interact with the text. The particularity of their laughter disturbs me…ha, ha, ha…heh, heh, heh. Like David Bowie’s laughing gnome I can’t quite catch them yet at the same time get left imagining a scary encounter over lunch in which the pair squirt caviar and honey at one another in a Paul McCarthyesque carnival of filth, whilst their transparent words collide in mid-air, smash into one another and leave us quite spent. Writing this tough is a car crash.
– Dr. Simon Morris
LemonMelon http://www.lemonmelon.org/
VerySmallKitchen http://verysmallkitchen.com
X marks the Bökship,
210/Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9NQ
Hi Zero! #TEN Contemporary Poetry Readings in Brighton
Tim Atkins, Connie Scozzaro, Ryan Dobran. Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 7:30 for an 8:00pm start.
Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol unit
Sanja Perovic – Critical talk ‘On the Control of Time and the French Revolution’. Dominic Lash, David Stent & Sarah Hughes – Music composed by Antoine Beuger and David Shepard. Thursday 12 January 2012, 7 pm, (drinks from 6:30 pm). Parasol Unit,Foundation for Contemporary Art, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW. T 020 7490 7373. £5/£3 concessions – free drinks & “Interior Ears” for all. Booking recommended
A Soft That Touches Down & Removes Itself
By David Tomaloff, a limited edition chapbook from The Red Ceilings Press.
Art Gallery Bouncer by Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler
Available here.
the little shed of various lamps
Published towards the end of 2011 by Mark Cobley’s The Red Ceilings Press, Nikolai Duffy’s chapbook the little shed of various lamps will be launched at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester on 19th January at 6 o’ clock PM. Also reading are Jeremy Over and Ian Seed.
Reality Street Supporter Scheme
For £40 (UK/Europe) or £50 (outside Europe), you will receive copies of all four Reality Street books published during the year. Your name will also be listed in the back of the books ( and on relevant publicity material, unless you prefer to remain anonymous. Books scheduled for 2012 are:
- Paul Brown: Cabin in the Mountains
- David Miller (ed.): The Alchemist’s Mind
- Maggie O’Sullivan: Waterfalls
- Sean Pemberton: White
More details at the Reality Street site.
Junction Box
New issue now online, featuring contributions by Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey, Kelvin Corcoran, Gavin Selerie, Graham Hartill, Alice Entwhistle, Steven Hitchens, Phil Maillard, Ian McLachlan and Scott Thurston plus an impressive editorial on Vaclav Havel by editor Lyndon Davies.
Maintenant #84 – Maarja Kangro
Over the last few decades it has become clear that the Baltic is one of the most prolific and energised sources of contemporary European poetry. Nor is this community of poets of a certain style or movement or form. The writers emerging from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the surrounding nations are radically individualistic, as innovative as they are classically powerful. Amongst them Maarja Kangro is quite clearly one of the most formidable voices of her generation – effortlessly intelligent, wry, considered, incisive, her relentless output of translations, librettos, prose, poetry and children’s stories have assured her place as a leading light in North Eastern Europe, with a reputation striking deep into Germany and Italy and we hope, as her brilliance continues unabated over the coming years, further into the UK and US. For our 84th edition, we welcome Estonia’s Maarja Kangro.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-84-maarja-kangro/
To accompany the interview we present five of Maarja’s poems, translated by Richard Berengarten, Mike Horwood, Brandon Lussier, Ilmar Lehtpere and Maarja herself.
BlazeVOX
60 authors from around the globe, including fifty-three poets and seven prose pieces. Read it on the BlazeVox site.
Four Letters / Four Comments
Four letters first published by Sean Bonney between June and August 2011 at Abandoned Buildings followed by speculative remarks on the letters from Jennifer Cooke, Pocahontis Mildew, Danny Hayward and Lara Buckerton. Available from Punch Press.
3:AM Awards 2011
We are very pleased and honoured to be 3AM Magazine’s website of the year and would like to thank our readers, our audience and, of course, God. Read the full awards list here.
‘Where horizons meet’: a one-day conference on Peter Riley
14 January 2012
Venue: The Keynes Library, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, http://g.co/maps/g46zp
Sponsored by Gylphi as part of the Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays book series (ed: Sarah Dillon, University of St Andrews)
Meditation Traps in Hereford
Via Allen Fisher:
“This is to invite you to attend or at least let you know about an OPENING and VIEW of work at APPLE STORE GALLERY, 3 Bridge Street, HEREFORD.
The evening viewing is on Thursday 5th January 2012, 6 to 8 pm. RSVP
The exhibition runs Tuesday to Saturday from 3rd January until 25th February.
It is an exhibition with a number of artists’ works.
I will have 8 MEDITATION TRAPS in the show.
MEDITATION TRAPS are composed in ink and watercolour on laid papers, framed with cherry wood, they measure 53 x 41 cm. They were made as part of a series in 2003, with images that derive from the shaped pieces of paper hung from a loose rope surrounding an Ainu figure in meditation. They followed my extensive work under the heading Frenzy and Self-Control, which included the series Constructed rush. Three of the MEDITATION TRAPS were used as the basis for prints in my book STROLL & STRUT STEP, published in 2004.”
Department #5. Now available
A4. 44 pages. £2.50.
New work from
- Iain Britton
- JP Duran
- SJ Fowler and Anatol Knotek
- RTA Parker
- Nat Raha
- Andy Spragg
- Steven Waling
Available now at the Department site.
Happy Christmas
Yesterday’s Secret Santa was Ted Berrigan. Happy Christmas from the Other Room.
Secret Santa – 24
This is the last of the Other Room’s Secret Santa series, poets disguised as Santa Claus. Yesterday’s Santa was Ed Dorn. And to finish, who is this? Santa doesn’t like broad beans with his Christmas lunch. They give him terrible spasms.
Maintenant #83 – Daniele Pantano
One of the leading poets of central Europe, a Swiss poet by all rights, is somehow is also one of its leading poets of exile. Daniele Pantano, vigorous, multifaceted, considered and cerebral in his poetry, is one of the most active and highly regarded translators of modern Swiss poets and writers, and has brought to light some of the finest authors of the 20th century in Walser, Dürrenmatt and Trakl. Moreover, he has a fine reputation as a critic, poet and teacher in both America and England. His is a story of living in more than one country, writing in more than one language, pursuing poetry in more than one facet, and anyone who has read his work will not be surprised by the breadth of his background and erudition of his account. Discussing the modern history of Swiss literature, his own journey from Switzerland to America to England and the work that is marking him out as one of the most remarkable talents of his generation, Maintenant presents its 83rd edition and it’s first Swiss poet, Daniele Pantano.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-83-daniele-pantano/
Accompanying the interview are four poems from Daniele’s remarkable, and ever growing, new project, Mass Graves.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fou-poems-daniele-pantano/
Parts XIX-XXII are available on The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Secret Santa – 23
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Christina Rossetti. But who is this? Santa is planning to round off this year’s festivities with an all night session on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. He’s something of a gunslinger.
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