Susana Gardner interviewed for The Other Room, June 2nd 2010.
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Tom Jenks
The Situation Room
Sean Bonney, Frances Kruk. Saturday 12th June 2010. Unit 12, 7 Fountayne Rd., London, N15 4QL. More here.
Nicole Mauro
Nicole Mauro reads at The Other Room, June 2nd 2010.
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Nicole Mauro – interview
Nicole Mauro interviewed by The Other Room, June 2nd 2010.
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Peter Manson – interview
Peter Manson interviewed by The Other Room, June 2nd 2010.
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Peter Manson
Peter Manson reads at The Other Room, June 2nd 2010.
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Perception
An exhibition of work by second year photography students from The Manchester College. Each student will display their final major project at 52 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6JX. A diverse range of photographic styles that embraces portaiture, landscape, documentary and fashion. 8th June, 6.00 – 8.oo pm; 9th – 11th June, 12 – 5 pm. Free drinks on entry.
if p then q book launches in just over two weeks
if p then q readings & book launches
@ Odder Bar
14 Oxford Road (opposite The BBC), Manchester, UK
23rd June 2010
6.30 pm [1:30 pm Eastern Time in the US]
Free admission
Performers:
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
Geof Huth
Tom Jenks
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Programme:
6.30: Joy as Tiresome Vandalism present Nøjagtig Pamplemousse
7.00: Geof Huth (live stream – watch at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/geof-huth)
7.45: Lucy Harvest Clarke (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
8.15: Tom Jenks: (watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tom-jenks-lucy-harvest-clarke)
If you can’t be there in person use the above URLs to watch on the internet. Please be aware that all times are approximate.
Openned Zine #2
■Peter Philpott explaining reasons and motivations behind the Great Works website
■Save Middlesex Philosophy
■Emily Critchley and Carol Watts provide a schedule for the Women’s Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival in Greenwich
■Jeff Hilson, Edmund Hardy, Richard Owens and Peter Riley on Mendoza, or, Linus Slug
■Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu on press free press
■Harry Gilonis Edmund Hardy, Tessa Whitehouse and Michael Zand on Klatch 3: Dérive
■Luke Roberts looks back on the Sussex Poetry Festival
■Stephen Mooney on the launch of the new Voiceworks website
■Matt Dalby on a new sound-text-performance series in Manchester, Counting Backwards
■Timothy Thornton close reads Ryan Ormonde’s firstdraftofhypertextrespondingtoalicefallingdownrabbithole
■Johanna Linsley on I’m With You, a series of live art events in Clapton, London
■Alex Davies on the Openned Table
Plus a set of regular new features:
■Bookface
■Birk Puke
■Photography: in this issue, Sharon Borthwick, Marianne Morris, Nat Raha and Malcolm Phillips
Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.
More here.
Streetcake 11
Now online, featuring:
- Shane Allison
- Devreaux Baker
- Ashley Bovan
- James Burt
- Sarah Kelly
- Sergio Ortiz
- Bobby Parker
- Daniel Rooke
More here.
Two new books from Knives Forks and Spoons Press
Mark Cobley and Antony Rowland.
Samples here.
Klatch 2
*Klatch 2* is now available as a PDF download from Openned. The magazine was assembled on Friday 29th January 2010. It features work by: Alex Davies, Amy De’Ath, Edmund Hardy,Elizabeth Guthrie, Francesca Lisette, Georgie M’Glug, Johanna Linsley, Karen Sandhu,Linus Slug, Michael Zand, Nat Raha, Rebecca Cremin, Sophie Robinson, Steve Willey,Tessa Whitehouse, Tim Atkins.
*Klatch 3 *is now available in page based format. 15 copies are being made available to those on this list-serv. Klatch 3 was assembled on Friday 14th May 2010. It features maps and poems by: Harry Gilonis, Richard Parker, Edmund Hardy, Michael Zand, Jeff Hilson, Tessa Whitehouse, Andrea Brady, slmendoza, Nat Raha, Steve Willey.
More here.
The Openned Book Table
Openned is setting up a book table in conjunction with Café 1001 in London’s East End.
Openned will have a presence at Café 1001 on the first Saturday of every month. The first event is on Saturday 5th June and runs from 12 – 6 pm.
Attendance is free as long as you bring one book to donate to Café 1001’s Book Orphanage. The book orphanage is a large bookshelf in the main bar space where anyone can wander in and read a book, for free, and then put it back on the shelf for the next person to read.
Alongside the selling of books on the Openned Table (which is in fact two tables, and more if we need it) there will also be some very short three-minute Openned Readings throughout the day.
More here.
Avant poetry and politics
“Of course poetry helps in its tiny way to change consciousness, just like many other things do. But British Petroleum does what it does with equal disregard for iambs and disjunctions.”
More from Robert Archambeau here.
Alberto Manguel
“I don’t think the book of paper and ink will disappear, as long as we allow for technologies to coexist. The notion that one must replace the other is simply the urge of the new to exist alone on the planet, but it doesn’t happen – it didn’t happen with photography and painting, it didn’t happen with film and theatre, it didn’t happen with video and film, and it hasn’t happened with electronic technology and the printed page. I was delighted when Bill Gates, a number of years ago, wrote his book about the end of paper and then printed it on paper; I think that says a lot.”
More here.
Tom Jenks * now published
Tom Jenks’ second collection is out now:
Tom Jenks’ second collection is an open system interaction with the world and all its contingencies. Using fragments from mass media, signage, management doublethink and myriad other sources, the work slips between inner and outer worlds as they suggest themselves, with the * symbol acting as a wildcard to select everything that is the case.
The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice
“The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice” by Libbie Rifkin at The Argotist Online, here. Excerpt:
“Enzensberger traces the military roots of the term “avant-garde,” breaking it down into its component parts and pushing each to its aporetic limit. The first aporia emerges when the avant-garde moves from the synchrony of the battle field to the diachrony of historical progress. Confronting the enemy up ahead, the “en avant of the avant-garde would, as it were, realize the future in the present, anticipate the course of history”. In spite of tremendous advances in prognostication by the “consciousness industry,” this is, of course, impossible. And yet the whole system depends on this impossibility; the avant-garde is the engine of advancement for the main body of artistic works, but the scene of its reception is, by definition, always just out of reach. The avant-garde’s value, in fact its very identity, can only be determined by the future generations for whom it is already passé.”
Via Jeffrey Side
BlazeVOX 2kX Spring 2010 now online
The new issue of the ever-interesting BlazeVOX is now online here, featuring work from Aaron Lowinger; David Tomaloff; Abbie J. Bergdale; Adrian Stumpp; Andre Zucker; April A.; Ariel Lynn Butters; Arkava Das; Ather Zia; B.C. Havens ; Bree Katz; Brian Anthony Hardie; Brian Spaeth; Bryanna Licciardi; Chris Chambers; Christopher Khadem; Colin Dardis; Constance Stadler; Daniel Godston; Daniel Romo; Dario Mohr; David Patterson; David Koehn; david smith; Dennis Etzel Jr.; Desiree Santos; Edward William Cousins; Edwin Wilson Rivera; Elizabeth Kerlikowske; Emma Ramos; Erik B. Olson; Evan Schnair; Joseph Farley; M. ; Geoffrey Gatza; Geoffrey Babbitt; Gloria ; Harmony Button; Jim Bennett; Isaac James Baker; Jacob Russell; Jaime Birch; Jill Jones; Jan LaPerle; John McKernan; Katie Jean Shinkle; Keith Moul; Kyllikki Brock Persson; Lance Newman; Lucy Hunt; Linda Ravenswood; Travis Macdonald; Leonard Gontarek; Lara K. Dolphin; Leon Whyte; Julie Kovacs; Mark Cunningham; Mark Moore; Marc Paltrineri; Melanie Sevcenko; Michael Rerick; Mick Raubenheimer; Mitch Corber; Natascha Tallowin; Peter Vullo; Valentine Pakis; Parker Tettleton; Peter Golub ; Philip Byron Oakes; Peter Brown Hoffmeister; Yemi Oyefuwa; Walter William Safar; Ken Kesner; R Pang; Rachael Stanford; Ramya Kumar; Raymond Farr; Rebecca Chadwick; Rebecca Lindenberg; Richard Barrett; Rich Follett; Robert Stoddard; Robert Wexelblatt; Sam Silva; Sankar Roy; Santiago del Dardano Turann; Tyson Bley; Scott Sweeney; Serena M Tome; Steve Gilmartin ; Shimmy Boyle; Bart Sonck; Sophie Sills; Stacy Kidd; Stephen Baraban ; Steven Fowler; Steve Roggenbuck; Tim Tomlinson; Travis Cebula; Richard Owens; Peter Fernbach.
Dead Wasp Forum
If you’ve got something on your chest, a monkey on your back or a hot potato in your rucksack, get over to Matt Dalby’s new discussion forum for innovative poetry and poetics here. Expect flaming, lurking, trolling and other verbs.
Counting Backwards website
Counting Backwards, a new event in Manchester organised by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher, now has a website, here. The first Counting Backwards will take place on Thursday 3rd June at Fuel Cafe in Withington and will feature Mike Cannell, THF Drenching and Holly Pester.
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