Tom Jenks

Fatty Cakes

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Between Soundings presents Notes for Fatty Cakes 8th October 2011 at 8.00 PM
Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX £3
To mark the release of Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes (published by Anything Anymore Anywhere) Between Soundings has prepared a performance of the text with sound from Julie Groves and Matt Cockshutt. Utilising ambient recordings and live performance, the music has been composed as a specific soundscape response for the occasion.Praise for the book:
‘Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ Tom Raworth
FC is going to be rubbed into your carefully composed faces, into your delicately frozen critical measurements {…} The punctuation, which has been so diligently learnt in defence of the contemporary, is spilt and walked over with chant and serious weirdness{…}The shrill swazzle of Mr Punch is wired sideways through the PA or intimately whispered over and over again.’
Brian Catling

‘Ranging from ocean to dry-land pub, prairie to outer space, this book’s good-humoured restlessness provokes us to think about relations between self and other. Andrew Spragg is a poet who can love; this book is in love with language without losing a grip on the world.’ Vahni Capildeo Matt Cockshutt http://yellotone.com/mattdefence.htm Julie Groves http://www.juliegroves.com/ Andy Spragg www.brokenloop.blogspot.com Anything Anymore Anywhere http://www.anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk/

Friends magazine

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Can be bought for $10 / €5 / £4 at http://plantarchy.us/friends2.html and features:

* End-paper collages by Stuart Calton
* Sean Bonney’s “Letter on Poetics (After Rimbaud)”
* 7 poems by Michael Cannon
* A selection from “Recovery” by Ulli Freer
* 3 poems by Fabian Macpherson
* A play by Emma Hogan
* A poem by Will Stuart
* 2 poems by Caitlin Doherty
* 3 poems by Joshua Strauss
* 2 poems by Nat Raha
* A poem by Mahmoud Elbarasi
* A poem by Tom Raworth
* 3 notebooks poems by Tom Leonard
* A poem by Ollie Evans
* A poem by Ian Heames
* A selection from “Sourdough Mutation” by Peter Manson
* A selection from a sonnet sequence by Richard Parker
* A poem from Drew Milne’s sequence of architectural poems
* 2 poems by Colin Herd
* A selection from “Truffles grafts ducks” by Henri Deluy (trans. Jacqueline Kari)
* 2 poems by Lucy Sheerman
* A poem by Matia Szeghy
* 3 poems by Peter Morelli
* 3 poems by Keith Tuma
* A story by Jonathan Redhorse
* 3 poems by Rachel Warriner
* 4 poems by Ed Luker
* A selection from “Shouts From OK Glamour” by Ryan Dobran
* 2 poems by Tessa Whitehouse
* A selection from “Punk Faun” by Redell Olsen
* 4 poems by Matthew Klane
* 3 poems by Stephen Emmerson
* A poem by James Staniforth
* A poem by Posie Rider
* 4 poems by Sarah Kelly
* A selection from “FLASH BANG” by James Cummins
* 3 poems by Steve Willey
* A poem by Rosa van Hensbergen
* A poem by Neil Pattison
* A poem by Josh Stanley
* 7 poems by Will Rowe
* 3 poems by Jeremy Hardingham
* A review of Ian Heames’ Gloss To Carriers by Louis Jagger

Art and Writing events Sept – Oct

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Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September, 11-6pm daily
Whitechapel Gallery, London
London Art Book Fair: Wild Pansy Press Portable Reading Room

“‘Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?’: a new work by Tamarin Norwood will be installed in the Portable Reading Room. Visitors are invited to contribute to a catalogue of popular reason, responding to questions drawn from the lyrics of popular songs.”
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-art-book-fair-2011
http://www.wildpansypress.com

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Sunday 25 September, 4-6pm
The Mews Project Space, 15C Osborn Street, London E1
Artists Books Weekend

“or-bits.com presents “On The Upgrade”, a new limited edition series in a box.
Contains new commissioned printed works by Patrick Coyle, Benedict Drew, Jamie George, Tamarin Norwood, Damien Roach and David Rule, each of which has been conceived as an extension of the work previously produced for the website.”
http://or-bits.com

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Wednesday 28 September, 6-8pm
Format at PMS Watershed, Bristol
Tamarin Norwood: Artist Talk

“Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. Her work addresses the possibility of reciprocation between art and writing; practice and everyday life; production and circulation. Projects usually take the form of performance, objects or text. In her talk she will suggest a few ways of framing her practice, discuss her methods and influences, and present some untested work for discussion.”
http://www.formatnetwork.com
http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/about-pervasive-media-studio

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Saturday 8 October 12-5pm
Spike Island, Bristol
LemonMelon Press at The Artists’ Books and Zine Fair

“’Limonade es war alles so grenzenlos.’ was one of Franz Kafka’s last sentences in his Aus den Gesprächsblättern published in Briefe 1902–1924. Cixous’s translation of Kafka’s sentence ‘Lemonade everything was so infinite.’ forms the basis of a series of seven titles written by seven different writers / artists – David Berridge, Julia Calver, Emma Cocker, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marit Münzberg, Tamarin Norwood and Mary Paterson.”
http://www.spike-island.org.uk/events/book_zine_fair
http://tinyurl.com/64zwong

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Saturday 15 October, 7pm
RichMix, Bethnal Green Rd London
Maintenant Poetry IX: The Camarade Project

“Nine pairs of Britain’s most vital poets read original collaborations, specifically written in partnership for this event: Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks, Jack Underwood & Sam Riviere, Holly Pester & Patrick Coyle, Tamarin Norwood & Emily Critchley, Tom Chivers & Ben Borek, James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq, Sean Bonnery & Jeff Hilson, Tim Aitkins & Marcus Slease, James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar. With Latvian, Macedonian, Russian poets Ilya Kaminsky, Igor Isakovski, Lidija Dimkovska, Anna Auzina, Karlis Verdins.”
http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/

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Saturday 22 October, 2-5pm
Tate Britain, London
BP Saturdays: Going Public
Tamarin Norwood: Doing Words with Things

“Encounter a collaborative visual conversation between a BSL poet and a sculptor of wire who are engaged in a series of symmetrical exchanges, leaving bundles of conversation discarded throughout the gallery.”
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/musicperform/24647.htm

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Saturday 15 October – Saturday 5 November
Soundfjord, London
Cast and Figment, curated by Matthew Mackisack

Including a re-broadcast and live discussion of my radio work “Musica Practica”, first broadcast on 1 and 5 February 2010 on Resonance 104.4FM.
http://www.soundfjord.org/

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The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life, published May 2011 in activate (Issue 1, Vol 1.)
http://www.thisisactivate.net/2011/05/20/the-inscription-of-art-and-everyday-life/

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www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk

Maintenant #73: Lidija Dimkovska

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The poetry scene in Europe seems, from the vantage of the UK, to be far more fluid and less divisive than that of the UK. This may not be true, but there certainly seems, through the regular festivals, readings, residencies and academic exchanges, a sense of physical communication between poets who traverse many nations, languages and traditions. In the case of a poet like Lidija Dimkovska, we seem to have an individual whose experience is truly pan-Balkan, traversing Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania … but whose reception is continent wide. She carries her influences with a fidelity that makes them invisible within her explicitly well considered and captivating poetry. A formidable academic, a poetic folklorist, a respected translator and an innovative and elastic lyric poet, we are pleased to introduce Lidija Dimkovska as the 73rd edition of Maintenant (and furthermore, we are very pleased that she will be reading at the Maintenant IX event on October 15th 2011 thanks to Literature across frontiers and Arc publications.)

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-73-lidija-dimkovska/

Accompanying the interview are four poems by Lidija translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/four-poems-lidija-dimkovska/

WFN poetry workshop

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01 October · 14:00 – 17:00
Madlab
36-40 Edge Street
Manchester, United Kingdom

After the workshop this month:

Steven Waling on Charles Reznikoff: ‘Walking & Listening To New York’

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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.

Colin Watts / Judy Kendall / Ade Jackson

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Thursday 22 September 7.30-9.30pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane. Liverpool, L1 3BX
Come to a sparkling evening of poetry from two of the North West’s most outstanding poets.
Colin Watts reads from his latest collection Taking Down The Tree House (Headland, 2011), exploring real and imaginary worlds.
Judy Kendall’s poetry explores the intimate connections between physical, visual and interior worlds. Her most recent collection is Joy Change (Cinnamon, 2010).
Music by our resident musician Ade Jackson.
Admission £3/£2
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
0151 702 5324

Liverpool Poetry Cafe – supported by Arts Council England and The National Lottery

http://www.liverpoolpoetrycafe.com

Knives Fists and Spoons

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Peter Hughes writes about the Knives, Forks and Spoons Press in general and imminent Other Room reader SJ Fowler’s The Red Museum in particular at the Poetry Book Society Poetry Portal:

“Earlier this year, Alec Newman’s Knives, Forks and Spoons Press was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form. It is easy to understand why. KF&S has been putting out an amazing range of innovative poetry at an extraordinary rate. There is a buzz and an urgency about the whole project which has made it a particularly welcome addition to the British poetry scene.”

Crossing the Painted

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Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September, 3.00 pm
at Whitechapel Art Gallery, Art Book Fair

Readings of new work from poets in a collaboration between Painted, Spoken magazine and the Crossing the Line live poetry series. For two events only, six poets read individually, prefaced and ‘afterworded’ by a rules-based group work. Although representing a vast range of poetry practice the poets all come from modernist traditions with art practice selfconsciousness: hear how their work diverges and overlaps, creating a unique live event. Vahni Capildeo, Giles Goodland, Jeff Hilson, Francesca Lisette, Richard Price and Simon Smith.

Free. Presented at the The Portable Reading Room, the Wild Pansy Press stand. For more information see: www.wildpansypress.com

Green Integer

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Beginning in August 2011, Green Integer is publishing several new, older, and out-of-stock Sun & Moon, Green Integer, and other archived titles on line. Most of these will appear for free through the various Green Integer blogs, which can be accessed on the Green Integer Web sites through direct links. Some of these titles, new books and others, will be priced at affordably low prices for  “on net” customers. Titles include Raworth’s Eternal Sections and Wiener’s 707 Scott Street.  More at the Green Integer site.

Juxtavoices in Salford

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ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES

 

Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere is an improvising rock group featuring

 

Martin Archer – organ, saxophones

Chris Bywater – keyboards, laptop

Terry Todd – bass guitar

Sarah Henderson – violin

Walt Shaw – percussion

Steve Dinsdale – percussion

 

Initial starting point for the group’s direction was the music of Magma, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Faust and Amon Duul.

 

Opening group Juxtavoices is Martin Archer’s 25+ voice semi-improvising choir which has been amazing and surprising audiences in unexpected locations across the region since starting to perform in early 2011.  By turns musical, poetic, theatrical and outrageous, this group is genuinely not like anything else you will have heard

 

 

Wed 12th October

THE HARLEY

Glossop Road, Sheffield

8.30 pm

£5 / £3 on the door

 

Wed 19th October

ISLINGTON MILL

James Street, Salford M3 5HW

8.30 pm

£6 / £4 on the door

Venue 07813 276 808

CRITICAL SCREE PUNCH LAUNCH. Poetry with Crot / Kruk / Relax / Walton

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9th September, 7 pm start. Wash Bar on the Mound, Edinburgh. Bios and other information can be found on Facebook.

FRANCIS CROT
RODNEY RELAX
SAMANTHA WALTON
plus readings from FRANCES KRUK

BOOK LAUNCH:

FRANCIS CROT | HAX
London, 2011 — Hackney invades the City.

FRANCES KRUK | DOWN YOU GO, OR ,NÉGATION de BRUIT (APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBERT)
“The most pathetic poem is small people on fire”

POSIE RIDER | CITY BREAK WEEKEND SONGS
Join the Praxis Suffragettes on a weekend of civic unrest in Stratford-upon-Avon. Meet at the Megabus terminal, Victoria Coach Station. Don’t forget your hammer, plus small change for an M&S lunch. Vagina Cakes all round (gluten free).

SCREE
SCREE is an arts+writing little magazine based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The magazine is edited by Lila Matsumoto and was inspired by the tradition of hand-made poetry magazines from the late 1950s/early 1960s e.g. Migrant, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., Resuscitator, and Black Mountain Review, among many others.

Part of CONVERSIFY:

More ConVersify readings on Saturday & Sunday night, see!:
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108791099225598
Conference site: http://www.conversify.co.uk/