Counting Backwards #8

Thursday 2nd June, 8 - 11pm

• Matt Dalby
• Gary Fisher
• Noise Research

FUEL, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 3BW

via The Other Room

Counting Backwards #6 Audio

You can hear audio from Counting Backwards #6 here.

Department #3

£3, Department, Feb 2011

The poetry of Department is poetry that is not content to inhabit “the poetic” (aesthetically elevated spiritualised leisure activity): that with the force of its own intensities & in-densities moves ‘out’ on to the street, moves among political spaces (complicating – & analysing complicities – all distinctions between public & private worlds), & lives in the overlap between sound & discourse, music & information. Department poetry is non-departmental poetry. It does not refuse formal exactness (though it troubles a certain ideology of forms as Universals), but it does refuse constraint; it troubles order to deny all attempts at a control order for poetry (know your place). These principles underlie the practice of Department issue #3. & will underlie the practice of future issues.

Featuring:

Marie-Angelique Bueler

Wayne Clements

Matt Dalby

David Grundy

Catherine Hales

Ryan Ormonde

Posie Rider

Marcus Slease

Tom Watts

Counting Backwards #3 Audio

Audio goodness from the last Counting Backwards is now available online.

Openned Zine #2

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• 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
• Bird 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.

Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards is a new series of text-sound-performance events. It takes place on the first Thursday of alternate months. Counting Backwards takes place at Fuel cafe bar in Withington. The first event is on Thursday 3 June 2010.

Counting Backwards takes as it’s starting point contemporary text-sound practices that question semantics and received traditions and emphasise performability.

The focus is on the exploration of new or unconventional techniques.

A new blog and event series run by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.

Update on Friday 23 April, 2010 by Openned

Knives, Forks and Spoons Second Event

Tuesday 13th April, 7pm

• Matt Dalby
• Alec Newman
• Simon Rennie

The Crescent Pub, 20 The Crescent, Salford, Lancashire M5 4PF

The Other Room Anthology II

£5 + £0.75 P&P (via PayPal), The Other Room, 2010

View free sample.

Featuring:

• Tim Atkins
• Sean Bonney
• Matt Dalby
• Tina Darragh
• Philip Davenport
• Alex Davies
• James Davies
• Craig Dworkin
• Allen Fisher
• Michael Haslam
• Rob Holloway
• P.Inman
• Frances Kruk
• Holly Pester
• Sophie Robinson
• Nick Thurston
• Tony Trehy
• Steven Waling

via The Other Room

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.

New From Knives, Forks and Spoons Press

£5 each, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010

via Matt Dalby