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Neu! Reekie! Festival Double Bill

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Via Michael Pedersen:

Friday, August 26 at 7:00pm – August 27 at 10:00pm

Scottish Book Trust Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson bring you Neu! Reekie! the best in avant-garde poetry, music and film fusions.

The night promises to shock and stun, playing host to the sinister and sanguine.

WE’RE DOING A FESTIVAL DOUBLE BILL

FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST – 19:00 – 22:00

– Poetry by –
ROSS SUTHERLAND – www.rosssutherland.co.uk
DES DILLION – www.desdillon.com
– Films by –
TORSTEN LAUCSHMANN – www.torstenlauschmann.com
CARLA EASTON – starring DUGLAS T. STEWART & NORMAN BLAKE
www.carlajennifereaston.co​m
– Music from –
BILLY PAGE – www.billypage.com
EMELLE – www.myspace.com/emellebros

SATURDAY 27TH AUGUST – 19:00 – 22:00

Poetry by:
KEVIN CADWALLENDER – www.redsquirrelpress.com
MICHAEL PEDERSEN – www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
GRAHAM HARDIE – www.grahamhardie.co.uk
Film by:
EWAN MORRISON- www.ewanmorrison.com
Music from:
PAUL HAIG (EX JOSEF K) – www.rolinc.co.uk
ALAN MCKIM – www.alanmckim.com

Both night will feature animations from across the globe.

COST
One Show: £5 or £4 concession
Both Shows: £7 or £6 concession

DRINKS £2 ALL NIGHT – An absurdity in itself.

email: Michael_eats_oranges@hotma​il.com to reserve tickets NOW!

Tickets will be available from Elvis Shakespeare (specialist record and book store) on 347 Leith Walk as of Monday 1 August – www.elvisshakespeare.co.uk

Maintenant #69: Márton Koppány

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Márton Koppány’s opus of visual poetry stands as a remarkable entry into the ledger of post WWII European poetic innovation and expression. Behind him sits a life’s work, denoted by intellectual rigour and brilliance, as he has quietly, but indelibly, edged his medium forward. Producing work of immense quality, consistently, in the field of visual poetry for over thirty years, he has inspired new generations of poets while working from the inside out of his environs in Budapest and with a capacity for profound inflection and wholly accurate understatement (to a level of humorous / satirical reverence so poorly missing from much experimental poetry) he has tackled the nature of his own family history and it’s entwining with the darker days of modern Hungary. His work is thus indicative of the possibilities, and even the necessities, of visual poetry, his fundamental mode one of honesty in expression, led by a suspicion and engagement with the limits of language. Koppány has always maintained an incisiveness that has attracted the plaudits from poets in his field, and his sophicated, intellectual and urbane corpus has rendered him simply one of Europe’s finest poets and an immense contributor to often the most stimulating field of contemporary poetry.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-69-marton-koppany/

Incorporated into the interview are 13 poems by Marton, selected to display the width and evolution of his work over the last 30 years.

Coming up this September

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We are delighted to announce an extra Other Room evening, this autumn at Manchester’s Anthony Burgess Centre on September 26th. This will feature Phil Hall, Alan Halsey performing six works of Hugo Ball accompanied by Mick Beck on bassoon and saxophone and Vanessa Place. More details to follow.

Alec Finlay – some activities

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April 2011 reader Alec Finlay has many irons in many fires. For details of his current projects, see below.

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Mountaineering in Counterpane

Alec will read ‘Mountaineering in Counterpane: a Report to the Armchair Mountaineering Club; other speakers include Misha Myers and Matthew Beaumont.

One-day symposium, presented by the University of Sunderland W.A.L.K. research initiative, seeking to interrogate the practice of walking in all its cultural, ethnographic, poetic, and geographical ramifications.

The Gymnasium, Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Thursday 28th July 2011, 12.30 – 17.00

For information contact Heather Yeung at: WALK@sunderland.ac.uk


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the road north

St Weems http://the-road-north.blogspot.com/2011/06/33-st-weems_23.html

Killin and Acharn http://the-road-north.blogspot.com/2011/06/7-killin-acharn_27.html

Monreith http://the-road-north.blogspot.com/2011/06/9-monreith.html

the hidden gardens http://the-road-north.blogspot.com/2011/07/53-hidden-gardens_07.html

You can follow Ken and Alec’s steps on their blog http://the-road-north.blogspot.com/

Visit The Road North website, where you can read Basho’s Oku-no-Hosomichi, the work that inspired the project http://www.theroadnorth.co.uk/

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mapping the road north

This hand-drawn map documents all of the ‘stations’ visited by Alec and Ken on their year-long journey, with a mirror-map listing Basho’s Japanese place-names.

You can view or download the full-size map here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1599958/TRN%20mirror-map%20%28final%29.jpg

For a free map, send an A4 SAE to Luke Allan, Studio Alec Finlay, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ.

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the road north ‘sampler’

As part of the programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, Alec and Ken will present a ‘sampler’ of The Road North, displaying hokku-labels, tea-prints and whiskies that characterized their 53 visits. The sampler can be viewed at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh from 5 August, running till 3 September. Edinburgh http://www.spl.org.uk/about/find.html

On 28 August, 12:00pm, Alec and Ken will be reading from the project, accompanied by director of SPL Robyn Marsack: @ The Hub (Royal Mile, Edinburgh) http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/venues/hub?page=1

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T/H/E/C/I/T/Y/S/A/S/T/O/N/E/B/O/O/K

Alec has created a new civic grove for Victoria Gardens, Leeds. Three inter-related works on the theme of the city & pastoral have now been installed outside Leeds City Art Gallery. Among the formal screen of London Plane trees, 10 nest-boxes painted with QR codes offer e-links to field-recordings of birdsong by Chris Watson; in the Red Oak trees by the gallery entrance, S/I/N/G  W/I/L/D  K/I/N/D  W/O/O/D is an arrangement in 4×4 grids on next-boxes, echoing a phrase from John Berryman’s Dream Songs. T/H/E/C/I/T/Y/S/A/S/T/O/N/E/B/O/O/K is a stone-carved piece laid in the ground at the front of the Gallery, carved by Peter Coates. The digital print of this work will be available from Ingleby Gallery.

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‘Moss on Stone’

Alec & Robin Gillanders have collaborated on a portrait of Stonypath, Little Sparta, for Boulderpavement, published by The Banff Centre, now online at http://boulderpavement.ca/issue004/moss-on-stone/

David Berridge: a preview

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David Berridge will be performing at the next Other Room on Wednesday 24th August, along with Rachel Lois Clapham and Philip Terry. For a flavour of his work, try Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys at Beard of Bees, Black Gardens at The Red Ceilings Press and  SPIT & PRAXIS: DOG MAN SPEAKS in Streetcake Magazine. Check out too his VerySmallKitchen project, which he describes as “inhabiting, defining and exploring spaces of connection between writing and art practice; text, book and exhibition; curating and authorship. ”

Previews of Rachel Lois Clapham and Philip Terry to follow soon.

WFN

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Saturday, August 6 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Madlab, 36 – 40 Edge Street, Manchester

WFW(N) 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.

GLOSS TO CARRIERS By Ian Heames

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New from Critical Documents. £5/$11. 20 pages, 200 copies. Printed colour end-papers. 26 copies printed on a larger format.

Luke Roberts:
Gloss To Carriers is propelled by an internal logic of visor and helmet, tracking mutations on the horizon, ‘a picture of speed on the liquid corn’. The interface we see is heavily sedated warfare, her joysticks wild détourning, spinning through a set of invasive procedures, secret pingbacks between the Gloss and its Carriers. Every reader is also a bystander, totemic radar guilt lining our pockets: ‘goodbye immunity’. Can also be read as an operating-manual for the malfunctioning software of Recent British Poetry. Undetected viruses, get this and sleep in a new position.

Louis Jagger:
A vibrantly sexualised, obliquely emotionalised language of technology demonstrates the oppressions, disconnections, yearnings or compromises of an intelligent species mediated to by laser-wielding overlords and expected to swallow the dumbness of it whole. The poems are fragmented communications, garbled flight-logs of the things delivering death on imperial command, each marrying (or photon-fusing) an assortment of technical details into a concise and curiously unadorned vision of the organic and the intellectual reconstituted as mechanical will to power…This is a poem of protest and of sharp observation…Gloss To Carriers is a pulverising, all-consuming linguistic gun-battle from which nothing escapes.

Herbarium readings online

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Footage from the Herbarium reading on 22nd July,  launching the anthology  edited by James Wilkes for the Urban Physic Garden project.

The Other Room 27: one month away

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The next Other Room will be on Wednesday 24th August at The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY, on Manchester Science Park. The performers are David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham and Philip Terry. 7 pm start. There will be a bookstall stocked with publications from the three performers and other books, chapbooks, pamphlets and objects from the north-west’s vibrant small publishing scene.

The Other Room is always free, but you can book a ticket via Eventbrite. This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.

Details of the three performers below. Previews of each will appear here over the next month.

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DAVID BERRIDGE lives in London, where he curates VerySmallKitchen. He makes language works for exhibition, performance, print and online publication. In print, The Moth Is Moth This Money Night Moth is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press and Kafka Thinking Stations: A Chora(L) Song Cycle by The Arthur Shilling Press. Electronically, Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys is published by Beard of Bees and Black Gardens by The Red Ceilings Press.
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RACHEL LOIS CLAPHAM produces writing on and as performance as part of UK collaboration Open Dialogues and curates radical writing with the Arts Council partnership In a word…. Her own practice points…, punctuates movement and presses on physical gestures as text. Recent work includes Re- (PSL Gallery Leeds, Norwich Arts Centre and John Latham Archive London), WORK TRY HARD (Kaleid Editions) and (W)reading Performance Writing : A Guide (Live Art Development Agency).  wwwopendialogues.com
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PHILIP TERRY was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (Vintage, 2000), Fables of Aesop (Gilliland Press, 2006) and the poetry collection Oulipoems (Ahadada, 2006). In 2008 Carcanet published his acclaimed translation of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality. His latest Carcanet collection Shakespeare’s Sonnets was published in 2010. His chapbook Dante’s Inferno is published by Oystercatcher Press.