The Other Room

Alan Halsey - Beginning to End and other alphabet poems

Free PDF, e·ratio editions, March 2011

An interview with Alan Halsey is also available.

MIMEO MIMEO 4

The fourth issue of MIMEO MIMEO is now available.

Featuring:

• Language: Enemy, Pursuit by Asa Benveniste, poet and publisher of London’s legendary Trigram Press
• Interview with Tom Raworth about Trigram, Zephyrus Image and Goliard (conducted by Matt Chambers and Kyle Schlesinger)
• UK Small Press Publishing Since 1960 by Ken Edwards
• Interview with David Meltzer about British Poetry Revival (conducted by Alastair Johnston)
• Abysses and Quick Vicissitudes: Some Notes on the Mimeo Editions of Bill Griffiths by Alan Halsey
• Selection of letters from Eric Mottram to Jeff Nuttall
• Before I Became Modern Art Interview with Trevor Winkfield (conducted by Miles Champion)
• CAT-Scanning the Little Magazine by Richard Price

Cover by Trevor Winkfield.

via Kyle Schlesinger

First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

Following on from a previous post where it was called the First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival, here is the line-up for the First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival.

Please note, all events are sold out except for Friday afternoon, where all are welcome.

Friday 16th April (afternoon) 

• 1pm Tim Atkins, Luke Roberts, and Carol Watts
• 2:30pm Sussex Student Medley (to include Francesca Lisette, Josh Stanley, Gareth Farmer, and others)
• 4pm Andrea Brady and Alan Halsey

Meeting House, University of Sussex

Admission £8 / £6 (conc.)

Friday 16th April (evening)

• 8pm Jeff Hilson, Vahni Capildeo, Harry Gilonis
• 9.30pm Chris Goode, Jonny Liron

Followed by Barkingside Band

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (afternoon)

• 1pm Michael Kindellan, Justin Katko, Marianne Morris
• 3pm Tom Jones, Trevor Joyce, Sophie Robinson

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (evening)

• 7pm Sean Bonney, Alan Hay, Geraldine Monk

Performance from Jeremy Hardingham

Followed by a reading and music from Stuart Calton and fellow music maker

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Desperate For Love

Ekleksographia

A new issue of Ekleksographia online magazine, ‘William Blake and the Naked Teaparty,’ guest edited by Philip Davenport.

This issue features textworks that emphasise the touch - handwrit and haptic – particularly pieces that consider emotional engagements, human space - that weird trace and corporate/military erasure of the handmade, the human touch, the not-digital. These qualities link into the alternative tradition of poetics - and to 'outsider' artists who are owed a debt by the experimenters (an IOU all the way back to Will Blake, he and the Mrs sitting on the lawn in London afternoons, naked, drinking tea).

Contributors:

• Alan Halsey
• Anna MacGowan
• The Atlas Group
• Ben Gwilliam
• Carol Watts
• Carolyn Thompson
• Darren Marsh
• Dave Griffiths
• David Tibet
• Geof Huth
• George Widener
• Geraldine Monk
• The Gingerbread Tree
• Hainer Wormann
• Harald Stoffers
• Helmut Lemke
• Holly Pester
• James Davies
• Jesse Glass
• Jonathan Penton
• Julia Grime
• Kerry Morrison
• Kirstie Gregory
• Laurence Lane
• Lee Patterson
• Li E Chen
• Liz Collini
• Matt Dalby
• Michael Wilson
• Morry Carlin
• Nick Blinko
• Nico Vassilakis
• Patricia Farrell
• Rachael Elwell
• Robert Grenier
• Robert Sheppard
• Sarah Sanders
• Sean Bonney
• Stephen Vincent
• Steve Waling
• Sue Arrowsmith
• Todd Thorpe
• Tony Lopez
• Tony Trehy

The issue goes online 15th March 2010 and will be launched with a 24 ‘live’ online writing event by Sarah Saunders.

The Series Editor is Jesse Glass.

First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival

Friday 16th - Saturday 17th April

• Tim Atkins
• Sean Bonney
• Andrea Brady
• Stuart Calton
• Vahni Capildeo
• Chris Goode
• Alan Halsey
• Jeremy Hardingham
• Alan Hay
• Jeff Hilson
• Tom Jones
• Trevor Joyce
• Justin Katko
• Michael Kindellan
• Geraldine Monk
• Marianne Morris
• Tom Raworth
• Sophie Robinson
• Jonty Tiplady
• Carol Watts

Information about costs, times, venues, and line-up will be sent out shortly. In the meantime, festival contacts include Keston Sutherland, Daniel Kane, and/or Sara Crangle.

2nd Hay Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th June, 2010

Thursday 3rd:

• 6.30 - 7.30pm Festival launch and reception
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Robert Minhinnick, Childe Roland (aka Peter Meilleur)

Friday 4th:

• 2 - 4pm Keri Finlayson, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola, Samantha Rhydderch, John Goodby
• 5 - 6pm Zoe Brigley lecture, 'Surrealism and Welsh Poetry'
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey

Saturday 5th:

• 11am -12pm Phil Maillard, Ric Hool, Richard Gwyn
• 2 - 6pm Randolph Healy, Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding and other readers from the anthology Infinite Difference; launches of special Welsh issue of Angel Exhaust and of new Poetry Wales; Performance by Kathryn Ashill, other art events
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Elisabeth Bletsoe, Caroline Bergvall

Oriel Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay-on-Wye

Admission to 7.30pm events: £5 / £3 conc.

All other events free (voluntary £2 contribution welcome).

For further details and bookings, contact Lyndon Davies.

Facebook Event

via John Goodby

Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Launch

Wednesday 17th February, 7.30pm

Launch of Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1968-1980), edited by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards. Featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by:

• Sean Bonney
• Ken Edwards
• Allen Fisher
• Alan Halsey
• Geraldine Monk
• Maggie O'Sullivan

Room 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London

Admission fee TBC.

e·ratio 13

Now online, featuring:

• Laynie Browne
• Jill Jones
• Jane Adam
• Jeff Encke
• Joseph F. Keppler
• Mark Cunningham
• Jadon Rempel
• Keith Higginbotham
• Anne Fitzgerald
• Halvard Johnson

Plus an interview with Alan Halsey and e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Scott Wilkerson.

via Geraldine Monk