CLRs 1–4 are now available for £5 (€7, $12) all in at the Cambridge Literary Review site.
Tom Jenks
Openned book launch: The Commons
- Wednesday 21st September, 7.30pm;
- Admission is FREE;
- Carnivale, 2 White Church Ln., London E1 7QR (opposite Aldgate East Tube station (Whitechapel Gallery exit);
- Readings from Sean Bonney, Ulli Freer, Nat Raha, Steve Willey;
- A special edition run of The Commons will be available, featuring a couple of extra goodies.
Flyer with full line-up now available from openned.com.
Reality Street sale September 2011
This year’s Reality Street sale includes an opportunity to pick up some choice items from the Reality Street backlist at bargain prices – subject to their being in stock, including:
- Barbara Guest’s If So, Tell Me
- Nicole Brossard’s Typhon Dru, in French with a creative parallel translation by Caroline Bergvall
- The original 1996 edition of Out of Everywhere
More on the Reality Street site.
The Emblem of My Work
Opening at Shandy Hall on the afternoon of Sunday September 4th, The Emblem of My Work celebrates the 250th anniversary of the marbled page (page 169) in Volume III of Tristram Shandy and has largely been put together by chance. 169 artists are participating, including Other Room reader Alec Finlay. More at the dedicated site.
Mark Cobley: Andrew Seems Popular
Out now on The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Conversify
There are still a small numbers of tickets left for the conference Conversify: Poetry, Politics and Form taking place at the University of Edinburgh on the 10th and 11th of September 2011. The keynote speakers are Esther Leslie, Sean Bonney and nick-e melville, and confirmed poets include Emily Critchley, Jim Ferguson, Robert Sheppard, Ben Watson and John Wilkinson. The registration fee is set at £25 for everyone and includes a buffet lunch on both conference days, and a wine reception at the Scottish Poetry Library on 10 September. Evening events, without conference attendence, are free for all.
Covers and Knives Forks and Spoons videos
The first six installments of the Covers series:
Atkins covers Notley – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlzkhxiXmKg
Coyle covers Andre – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkP60yJFMLY
Fowler covers Griffiths – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9dv24uVJw
Slease covers Carey – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4wnd8VR_U
Mendoza covers MacSweeney – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuNs2PGIU8
Zand covers Jaeger – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMPnyoWSrw
At the Soho Curzon: Knives forks and spoons launch:
Tim Atkins – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzTvox8ExI
Elizabeth Guthrie – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah8WwlN8ZAg
Michael Zand & Mendoza – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCDZT2HbqmM
Patrick Coyle & his best friend – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbXyj86o-lc
Wayne Clements – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDT6OVSYyg
Marcus Slease – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Lj9mNsNcE
PN Review 200
PN Review marks its 200th issue with an event at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Thursday 8th September with wine, discussion and debate. To find out more, read the invitation.
The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan
Maggie O’Sullivan has been a significant force in the alternative British poetry scene since the 1970s. Her international reputation has continued to grow and she is widely regarded as one of the foremost feminist avant-garde writers working in Britain today.
This new volume of essays and interviews locates O’Sullivan in the wider context of contemporary British poetry and draws to light the wide-ranging influences which inform her work and her own influence upon a new generation of feminist avant-garde writing.
Tackling textual, visual and sound elements in her work her poetry is complex, challenging and rewarding. O’Sullivan is also a compelling performer of her work. Thematically she is capable of tackling animal vegetable and mineral ideas in her writing, drawing on mythological and even shamanistic components that are provocative and sensual.
This volume contains contributions from Charles Bernstein, Mandy Bloomfield, Ken Edwards, Romana Huk, Peter Manson, Nicky Marsh, Peter Middleton, Maggie O’Sullivan, Redell Olsen, Marjorie Perloff, Will Rowe, Robert Sheppard, Scott Thurston and Nerys Williams.
For more information, visit the Salt website.
Eugen Gomringer
The celebrated artist Eugen Gomringer (born 1925) will be visiting the UK in September 2011. Gomringer has spent a lifetime immersed in the creation of text based work, concrete poetry and minimalist art, as well as publishing, editing and curating. This is a rare opportunity to see and hear examples of his work.
Check his schedule for more.
Maintenant #72: Johannes Göransson
A Swede who is an American, an American who is a Swede. The irrelevancy of the nationhood of Johannes Göransson is never more obvious than in the multifarious and rapacious nature of his work – it calls on traditions too intertwined, too psychological and introverted to make its genesis of much interest. What is of interest is his industry as a translator. As well as being one of the most interesting and acerbic poets and educators currently at large in the US, he is also a vital conduit to the breadth and brilliance of contemporary Swedish poetry. For Maintenant in it’s 72nd guise, the excellent Johannes Göransson
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-72-johannes-goransson/
Accompanying the interview is a significant selection from Johannes’ most recent publication.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/entrance-to-a-colonial-pageant-in-which-we-all-begin-to-intricate/
UbuWeb: visual poetry
Edited by derek beaulieu, the UbuWeb visual poetry archive contains an array of interesting stuff, including Ian Hamilton Finlay’s seminal journal Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
Black Dogs Presents Next To Nothing
Thursday, September 15 at 5:00pm – October 1 at 6:00pm
The Light (Top Floor), Leeds City Centre
lack Dogs presents
Next To Nothing: An Exhibition on The Cost of Nothing and the Value of Everything
The Light (Top Floor), Leeds City Centre. 15th Sept – 1st October, 2011.
DIY art collective Black Dogs returns once more to the group show format with an exhibition containing contributions from over thirty individuals and collectives. Advancing Black Dogs’ critique of the institutional artworld, the contributors occupy various positions in relation to the label ‘artist’; raising questions about when something is art, who can make it and what the worth of calling it art is anyway.
The exhibition results from a series of collective meetings and conversations around notions of value. What is the radical potential of thrift and an economical approach? When and why is something cheap? What does it mean to be not-for-profit or operate in a non-capitalist fashion? How do we value our time and how does this find expression through the things we do or make? When are we working and when do we play?
The backdrop to these discussions has included state-enforced austerity measures, global financial crises and Marx reading groups appearing across the country alongside instances of rioting and looting. Whilst the exhibition avoids directly addressing or representing such issues, they undoubtedly provide context and resonance for the various works. Projects include: sculpture made from scrap, unmasked secrets of visual merchandising, advice on how to be a good shopper, a freely assembled Arcade Machine, traces of ‘everyday resistance’ at work, a homemade Mellotron, unrealised tattoos, reflections on sustaining an art practice when unpaid, and much more in the way of hand printing, diagrams, photography, objects, video and performance.
Next to Nothing takes place in an impressive empty unit in The Light shopping centre in the commercial heart of Leeds, a space and site that is as integral to the exhibition as the works displayed within it. Alongside the exhibition are a programme of events including evenings of music, performance and films held on and offsite. In addition, Black Dogs have used meetings as an opportunity to produce a collaborative fanzine that will be available for free to take away from the exhibition. Both the publication and the exhibition are not intended as end points or conclusions but rather markers of a moment in a collective interrogation of how we value our own and other’s activity and the cost of living.
Next To Nothing opens on Thursday 15th September at 5pm. All are welcome and refreshments will be available. There is a post-opening party and gig featuring Picore from Spain amongst other acts from the DIY (not-for-profit) music community held at Wharf Chambers club for members and their guests. The exhibition continues Monday to Friday 4 – 7pm and Saturdays 12 – 6pm until 1st October. Entry is Free.
See www.black-dogs.org for details.
the modernist – issue 2
Issue 2 of the modernist magazine will be launched at at 6pm on Thursday 15th September at Manchester’s Cornerhouse.
Voewood Festival
Taking place at Voewood House in High Kelling, Norfolk, 27th – 29th August, the Voewood Festival is “dedicated to the written word.” Performers include Emily Critchley and SJ Fowler.
Pugilistica films
The videos from the Pugilistica event held at 43 Gordon Sqaure, in Birkbeck College on July 28th are available to watch:
CM TJ Maintenant
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks are collaborating for a project related to the Maintenant series of interviews, readings and publications organised by SJ Fowler. All work is appearing on a WordPress blog. Comments and suggestions are welcome and any input may be woven into the finished piece.
Vanessa Place interviewed on “Intercapillary Space”
“What is poetry? Poetry is that which is not not poetry.
Poetry sans signifier, poetry after the end of poetry. ”
Read the full interview with Edmund Hardy at “Intercapillary Space”.
Post #1000
This is the thousandth post on The Other Room site. In case you missed any of the preceding nine-hundred and ninety-nine, here is how they look in word cloud form, with the names of the organisers removed.
WFN
03 September · 13:00 – 17:00
Madlab
36-40 Edge Street
Manchester M4 1HN
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.
This month WFN will be starting slightly earlier at 1pm, this is to make way for a discussion at 3pm about the riots and the role of the artist.
The riots that affected parts of Britain recently have been the occasion for much debate: what were the causes? What would be an appropriate response from government/local council to those involved? What can be done to ensure further riots do not occur?
This discussion is to consider what, if any, obligations/responsibilities in the aftermath of the riots are now incumbent upon people involved in creative work of every kind.
Is it necessary now for artists to concentrate on making work critiquing the ruling elite and/or demonstrating solidarity with the alienated populace?
Is it still even important that art is made?
Can art be a means to enable people to experience greater levels of engagement with their society?
Should art be calling for a complete re-organization of society?
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We believe that discussion and debate is necessary to analyse the events that took place on our streets this August and to reaffirm the postion of the artist in these times.
Please come to MadLab on september3, 15:00-17:00 to make your views known.
This event is open to artists of all disciplines.
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