Maintenant: the Camarade project, Featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Iily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler.
Out now on Red Ceilings Press.
The book will be launched at The Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 15th October.
….A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality….
Issue 4 out now, including Other Room reader Carol Watts.
One of the stars of the contemporary Latvian poetry scene, Anna Auziņa, already established as a classically trained artist, has emerged as a constant and resonant force in Baltic poetry over the last decade. Her work maintains a resolute affinity with the organic and perhaps overtly poetic language of her own personal journey as an artist. Gifted in both fields, her work reveals this creative agility in its imagery and tone. One of the five non-British poets visiting for the Maintenant Camarade event in the East end of London this October 2011, we are pleased to welcome our 75th interviewee in the Maintenant series.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-75-anna-auzina/
Accompanying the interview are four of Anna’s poems.
The next workshop will be this Saturday 8 October at 4pm at the William IV pub, 7 Shepherdess Walk, Shoreditch, London, N1 7QE, nearest tube Old Street.
Focusing on experimental writing, these workshops offer a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere for poets to share new work. The meetings aim to engage and encourage the broadest possible range of innovative practices.
http://www.unkant.com/2011/09/book-launch-6th-oct-all-bourgeoisie.html
visual poetry Vs text art
an exhibition match
Fri 7th Oct, 6.30-9, Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Featuring text works by nick-e melville, Gerry Smith, Dorothy Alexander, Greg Thomas, Shandra Lamaute, Lisa Temple-Cox, Becky Campbell and Alexa Hare.
Tuesday, October 18 · 7:30pm
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
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A magazine in print for innovative poetry & poetics, for cultural theory & social performance / cultural performance & social theory. A magazine dead set against the dead hand & deadly hands of instrumentalist reason & the banalisation / terrorisation / commodification of everyday life. A situation. Department is edited by Richard Barrett & Simon Howard. More at the DEPT site.
Ron Silliman’s Bury Text, part of the 2011 Text Festival exhibition, has now been installed at Bury Metrolink station. More about the project at Tony Trehy’s blog.
Out now and available on the Blackbox Manifold site, featuring
Poetry:
Reviews:
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Poetry Reading 19th October 2011 at The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Orsmkirk, Lancaster, 7.30: £4.
Tim Atkins is the author of Folklore 1-25 (Heart Hammer), To Repel Ghosts (Like Books), 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Oriental Tapping (Penguin), Horace (O Books), and Folklore (Salt). Another volume, Petrarch, is available from Barque Press. His work to ‘translate’ the whole of Petarch is one of the most exciting poetic projects of our time. He calls them ‘versions & perversions of the love poems of Petrarch’. He is editor of the online poetry journal onedit, Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of East London, a practising Buddhist, practising father, and is lousy at multi-tasking.
Two afternoons at the Harvest Hangout at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Autumn Harvest Show 2011. A line-up of music and readings organised by Helen Babbs:
Tue 4th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Monooka + Buffy – music & poetry (40mins)
2pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone (30mins)
3pm Monooka and her band (30mins)
4pm Herbarium poets readings – Matt Martin, Luke Heeley, Kirsten Irving & Jon Stone(30mins)
5pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
Weds 5th Oct
11am Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
12pm Robin Grey and his band (45mins)
2pm Helen Babbs – readings (15mins)
3pm Allan Shepherd + Herbarium poets Allan Shepherd, Holly Hopkins & MJ Weller(30mins)
Tickets are £5 on Tue; £3 on Weds (free entry to readers and one friend)
Sunday 16 October 5.30 – 6.30pm
Part of the radical literary avant-garde sometimes called ‘linguistically innovative’, Sheppard combines subtle effects of language and tone with a variety of performance styles, from the direct and quick-fire to the musical. His most recent books are Warrant Error, a verbal intervention into the War on Terror and Berlin Bursts, which contains poems that explore one of his persistent themes of human unfinish. Anthologised in the OUP Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry he is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University.
Robert says, ‘What I’m planning to do for this reading, which is an important one for me, is to plug into the Bluecoat’s theme of ‘city of radicals by reading some poems about Liverpool, some poems that I hope are radical in form, and others that are radical in content. While I will read from Berlin Bursts, my 2011 book, I am also going to read from other books and from recent, unpublished work, including a new radical poetry manifesto. This last piece was specially written for the occasion. Reading something new always makes me a little edgy, but that’s good. When I’ve finished I’ll be answering questions, signing books and having a drink.’
Free, ticket required. The best way to book is by phone or via the web.
Book at www.thebluecoat.org.uk or 0151 702 5324 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX (which is also the venue).
“Masterly on its own terms, Occasionals is the kind of book that should appear on prize shortlists – but all too rarely does.”
Carrie Etter reviews Carol Watts’ Occasionals in The Guardian. More about the book, including how to buy it, can be found on the Reality Street site.
Already considered one of the finest poets of Ireland’s new generation, Ailbhe Darcy has gained international recognition for her vibrant poetry and rapidly growing body of work. Being at the forefront of a tradition as considerable as Ireland’s has required her to maintain the idiosyncracy of her own taste and voice, and though undoubtedly, the lilt of her work, it’s care for being read and for being rhymtical, resounds with the narrative tradition of Irish poetry, it is also true her idiom can be disjunctive, unpretentious and colloquial. More vitally she creates poems that are conceptually often unresolved, an act of humility that sits apart from neat lyricism. Yet it is too far to say she has made a break from the tradition of her nation, and many would say this is the bigger achievement. For the 74th edition of Maintenant, our first Irish poet, Ailbhe Darcy. thanks to Michael Schmidt
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-74-ailbhe-darcy/
Accompanying the interview are three of Ailbhe’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3-poems/
Gauss PDF publishes digital works from writers and artists around the world. As opposed to an e-zine, it is Gauss PDF’s mission to publish complete works, much in the way a label or traditional publisher would. It also constitutes an experiment in multimedia publication, having hosted everything from digital video and zip files to YouTube playlists and image collections. It doubles as an archive of this work as well — an archive, hopefully, that effectively documents contemporary writing/art.
Out now:
The Commons
http://www.openned.com/print/category/sean-bonney
“The work was originally subtitled “A Narrative / Diagram of the Class Struggle”, wherein voices from contemporary uprisings blend into the Paris Commune, into October 1917, into the execution of Charles 1, and on into superstitions, fantasies of crazed fairies and supernatural bandits //// all clambering up from their hidden places in history, getting ready to storm the Cities of the Rich //// to the bourgeois eye they may look like zombies, to us they are sparrows, cuckoos, pirates & sirens //// the cracked melodies of ancient folk songs, cracking the windows of Piccadilly //// or, as a contemporary Greek proverb has it, “smashing up the present because they come from the future”.
Out soon:
Happiness – Poems after Rimbaud
http://www.unkant.com/p/publications.html#rimbaud“It is impossible to fully grasp Rimbaud’s work, and especially Une Saison en Enfer, if you have not studied through and understood the whole of Marx’s Capital. And this is why no English speaking poet has ever understood Rimbaud. Poetry is stupid, but then again, stupidity is not the absence of intellectual ability but rather the scar of its mutilation ////// Rimbaud hammered out his poetic programme in 1871, just as the Paris Commune was being blown off the map. He wanted to be there. It’s all he talked about. The “systematic derangement of the senses” is the social senses, ok, and the “I” becomes an “other” as in the transformation of the individual into the collective when it all kicks off. It’s only in the English speaking world you have to point simple shit like that out. But then again, these poems have NOTHING TO DO WITH RIMBAUD. If you think they’re translations you’re an idiot. In the enemy language it is necessary to lie.”
Out soon:
Mountain Press announces the publication of Timothy Thornton’s Jocund Day.
£5 / €7 / $10
http://mountain-press.co.uk/home.html
Forthcoming from Mountain Press, this year:
* Ryan Dobran, Shouts From OK Glamour
* Luke Roberts, False Flags
* The Prose of the English Intelligencer (edited by Luke Roberts, Reitha Pattison and Neil Pattison)
Tuesday, 4 October at 7:30 pm, featuring Linda Black and Ian Seed. Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. Admission is free.
For details of the books that will be launched by the authors:
otherroom.org 