An eclectic and elegant arts and culture blog by Michael Murray with writing on a diverse range of poetry, including Lyn Hejinian and Inger Christensen.
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Adrian Clarke: Exiting Through the Singular
Now available from the Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
POLYproject 1: Poetry as Score
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, Wednesday 2nd November, 7.30pm (pre-concert discussion 6.30-7pm)
Jürg Frey – Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder – 2009/4
Michael Pisaro – A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger – Confidential Letter #7 (2011)
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
This event launches Sound and Music’s Cut & Splice Grúndelweiser festival, which runs from 3 to 6 November:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/cut-splice-grundelweiser
WFN
Saturday, November 5 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Madlab, Manchester.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
You Call Him Doctor Jones!
Sat 22 October
7pm – 1am
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street
London E1 7EX
Join a host of poets, performers, musicians and comedians for a monkey-brain-packed adventure through 30 years of Indiana Jones. Expect Indy trivia quizzes, prizes, an impromptu archaeology seminar and giant boulders. There will be a professional eyelid painter so you can flutter a message to our own in-house Dr. Jones (with only minor risk of exposure to tomb-raiding Nazis). Bring along an object for the Museum of Antiquities, try your hand at brass-rubbing and guessing the weight of the Golden Idol, find out what Marian Ravenwood really thought of Jones, and be careful not to drink the blood of Kali Ma. If that’s not enough whip-cracking Indynerd action for you, the entertainment will be followed by our stylish Obi-Wan Club DJs until late.
Produced by Penned in the Margins in association with Bad Dates
LINEUP
Poetry & performance from Jack Underwood, Kirsten Irving, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Julia Bird, Chrissy Williams, SJ Fowler & Patrick Coyle
Music from Gwyneth Herbert
Comedy from Rich Sandling & Tom Bell
Performance publishing by Ladies of the Press*
Obi Wan Club DJs til late
PLUS
The Museum of Antiquities
Guess the weight of the Golden Idol
Lego Indiana Jones
Eyelid painting
Brass rubbing
Eyeball soup & special cocktails
TICKETS
£6.50 on the door
£5 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/134968
Maggie O’Sullivan & Jennifer Pike Cobbing
The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, Wednesday 26th October 2011, 18:00-21:00.
Launch of the ‘Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan’, & launch/reading of Maggie O’Sullivan’s ‘murmur’ and Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s ‘The Conglomorization of Wot’.
Colin Herd: a preview
Colin Herd will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. For a flavour of his work, watch his reading at the Maintenant Slovakia event in London or read selections of his work in Blart and Streetcake. Or check out his images from the recent I AM NOT A POET festival in Edinburgh. Or his interviews with Steven Fowler and Kevin Killian.
The other readers are Jennifer Cooke and SJ Fowler.
Xing the Line – Stephen Emmerson & Holly Pester
Xing the Line, Thursday, October 27 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
Maintenant Camarade films
Films of the event at the Rich Mix centre near Brick Lane in London on 15th October are now online at the Maintenant site. As a taster, check out Tim Atkins and Marcus Slease.
Author Talks Series: Richard Price
Tuesday 25th October, 17.00-1800
As part of the University of Strathclyde Author Talks series the novelist and poet Richard Price will be returning to Strathclyde University, where he was a student twenty-five years ago, to give a reading from a range of his work – fiction and poetry.
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Free entry and refreshments will be provided.
Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=124120641023966
Maintenant #76 – Kārlis Vērdiņš
One of the most versatile young poets writing in the Baltic, Latvian Kārlis Vērdiņš is a renowned critic and a prize winning poet. Already included in two of the most important anthologies of young poets from Central and Eastern Europe in the English language ‘A Fine Line’ (Arc Publications, 2004) and ‘Six Latvian Poets’ (Arc Publications, 2011), Kārlis Vērdiņš has already begun to establish his legacy outside of Latvia. We are especially pleased that he is one of the five visiting poets to read at our largest event in London yet, Maintenant XI: Camarade. October 15th will see him read along side some of the finest poets in Europe, undoubtedly where he belongs.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-76-karlis-verdins/
Accompanying the interview are two poems by Kārlis, translated by Ieva Lešinska
Frederick J Fredericks
11am – 4pm, Sunday 30th October, 2011
Frederick J Fredericks is a free one day event taking place in the Brecon Beacons National Park on 30th October, 2011 as part of Powys Arts Month. The event comprises an artist-led journey on foot, to caves at Craig y Cilau National Nature Reserve. The event will include installations, performances, readings and improvised music. The project’s title is derived from 18th Century graffiti in the caves by Frederick J Fredericks.
Artists, Poets and Performers include:
- Susan Adams
- Stefhan Caddick
- Morag Colquhoun
- Lyndon Davies
- John Goodby
- Penny Hallas
- Graham Hartill
- Anthony Mellors
- Chris Nurse
- Gillian Stevens
- Team Sports (Matthew Lovett, Jimmy Ottley, Ian Watson)
- Scott Thurston
- Christopher Twigg
- Tessa Waite
On the day there will be two different walks to the caves.
Route A. from Llangattock is 3 kilometres over rugged terrain, with steep climbs. It’s suitable for energetic walkers. This is the guided walk setting out from Llangattock.
Route B is 1.5km to via a disused tramway – mainly level with some uneven ground. This route is unguided. Please make your own way to the caves and to see the work.
GLTI.CH Karaoke (LONDON event)
Meanwhile Space. O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road London, NW3 6LU.
A project that seeks to set up unnecessarily-elaborate portals of amateur singing, GLTI.CH Karaoke posits that there is discernible value & joy in:
1. the collective stumbling & frustrations met in the face of tech limits, language barriers & time zone differences
2. oblique experimentation &
3. embracing & folding in “errors” in future iterations versus seeking to “overcome” or eradicate them.
GLTI.CH asks to be written & rewritten as cracks, bruises & mistranslation errors gather & proliferate through pop songs & datastreams, as people are GLTI.CHed together.
More at the Facebook page and at the Meanwhile Space site.
Blue Touch Paper
Making New Collaborations in Contemporary Culture
London Sinfonietta and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation are pleased to announce three new projects as part of the London Sinfonietta’s Blue Touch Paper programme. Working with the London Sinfonietta musicians, three composers working with collaborators from other arts disciplines will devise innovative and exciting interdisciplinary works to be presented throughout its Music Programme 2011/12.
Following an open, national call the London Sinfonietta has selected a group of composers and multidisciplinary artists to participate in the Blue Touch Paper programme. The three composer-collaborator partnerships, who have all been awarded a Jerwood Blue Touch Paper bursary, are:
- Steve Potter (composer) & Kélina Gotman (Writer/Dramaturg)
- Elspeth Brooke (composer), Seonaid Goody (Puppeteer) & Anna G Jones (Director)
- Philip Venables (composer) & Steven J Fowler (Poet)
SJ Fowler – a preview
SJ Fowler will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. You can read some of his work a the Voiceworks site and much more at his own site. Or watch a film of him reading at the launch of his collection Fights on Veer Publications.
Preview of Colin Herd to follow soon. Click here to read a preview of Jennifer Cooke.
Contemporary Innovative Poetry
The new series of the Research Seminar in Contemporary Innovative Poetry begins Wednesday, 19 October, at 6.00. Dr Jacob Edmond will talk on ‘A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature’
Room 264, Senate House, University of London, Russell Square. Free. All welcome.
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
Jennifer Cooke – a preview
Jennifer Cooke will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn, on Manchester Science Park. You can read some of her work in onedit issue 11, Great Works and “Intercapillary Space”. Previews of SJ Fowler and Colin Herd to follow soon.
POLYply > 13: THE THING
Ryan Dobran
Patrick Farmer
Patrick Farmer
Peter Larkin
Salomé Voegelin
Gillian Wylde
Gillian Wylde
Thursday 13 October, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NGFree entry
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NGFree entry
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Future diffusions:
Wednesday 2 November: POLYproject 1 – POETRY AS SCORE (Cut & Splice Grundelweiser festival launch event)
Works by Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro and Manfred Werder.
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
Thursday 10 November: MEASURE
Simon Jarvis and others tbc
Simon Jarvis and others tbc
John Kinsella / Sophie Mayer / Drew Milne Cambridge reading
Friday, 14 October, 7.30 pm.
Special Poetry Event / Reading:
John Kinsella
Sophie Mayer
Drew Milne
Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Free Entry. All welcome.
This event marks the beginning of John Kinsella’s residence as this year’s Judith E Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow.
John Kinsella has written over 20 books of poetry, as well as plays and fiction. His recent books include ‘The New Arcadia’ (2005); Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful (2008); ‘Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a
Regional Geography’ (2010); and ‘Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley’ ( 2010).
Sophie Mayer’s latest collection is ‘The Private Parts of Girls’ (Salt, 2011). She is the author of ‘The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love’ (2009) and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.
Drew Milne’s book’s of poetry include ‘The Damage: new and selected poems’ (2001), ‘Mars Disarmed’ (2002) and ‘Go Figure’ (2003).
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