Recording The Other Room, Wednesday 1st April 2009

The Other Room, 01/04/09 (AAC, 17min, 7MB) A recording of the latter part of the second half of The Other Room reading featuring Phil Davenport and Lisa Samuels, which took place in the Old Abbey Inn, Manchester on Wednesday 1st April 2009. Unfortunately I was unable to catch any of Tim Atkins' reading due to the lacklustre recording equipment available to me at the time. The Other Room is organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.

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Sundays at the Oto

Sunday 19th April, 3 - 5pm

• Abigail Oborne + Gagarin
• Holly Pester
• James Wilkes

18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL Admission £4

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Notes on Recurring Poetry

John Sparrow:

Of particular interest in the subsequent discussions (which are here), the comment that blog posts outside of the ‘poems proper’ actually form part of the wider reading of these poems — something which will surely be lost when finally published in its own context in a bound book.  For sure, in the blog context, the composite texts arrive in a chronology which invites digressions, interruptions, as part of an ongoing reading process.

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Torque Press

Piers Hugill:

I am very happy to be able to announce the re-launch of Torque Press, a small press dedicated to publishing contemporary poetry, which is supported by the University of Southampton. It has been a long time coming, but together with the news about the press we are also very pleased to announce the launch of a new book by Caroline Bergvall, Cropper, beautifully designed and constructed by Marit Münzburg, which in two articulating sections considers the experience of multilingualism, and the way bodies and language(s) interact across their many borders. We are also now making available for purchase (while stocks last) the backlist of Torque Press, which published ten titles between 1984 and 1997.

• Allen Fisher (1, 1984), Boogie Break, pp. 12.
• Wendy Mulford (2, 1985), The A.B.C. of Writing, and other poems, pp. 32. (sold out)
• Alan Halsey (3, 1987), The Capitalist Twilight Revisited, pp. 18 (sold out)
• Michael Carlson (4, 1988), By the Sound, pp. 22.
• Robert Sheppard (5, 1988), Internal Exile, pp. 15. (sold out)
• Johan de Wit (6, 1989), Spread Eagle, pp. 20.
• David Miller (7, 1989), Messages, pp. 12.
• David Marriott (8, 1991), Clouds & Forges, pp. 20.
• Ken Edwards (9, no date), Lyrical Ballets, pp. 17.
• Allen Fisher (10, 1997), Fish Jet, pp. 52.

I have listed the whole backlist, although, as indicated, some of the titles are no longer available. You can get copies of Caroline Bergvall's book (Cropper, ISBN: 978-1-906851-01-9, pp. 15) for £7, plus 50p P&P, and any of the titles still available from the previous series of Torque Press at the price of £5 for each title, with a further 50p for P&P, from: Jane Glenn, 65/2063, English, School of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ (J.Glenn@soton.ac.uk). Please make cheques payable to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

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Heidegger vs. Kindle

Dan Piepenbring:

The Kindle may feel, at present, isolated and bereft of context, but this is because its readiness-to-hand is concealed by a lack. Something is missing, or, to use Heidegger's jargon, "obtruding." Birkerts maintains that the issue is one of context, but this is perhaps irrelevant. What matters is not the nature of what's missing but that something is missing at all. In Heidegger's philosophy, people will resist imperfect equipment, especially when its faults obtrude upon their interactions with the world.

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Lucy Harvest Clarke Reading At Openned, 25th March 2009

[wpvideo SxaWACH1] Lucy was the second poet to read at the night. We heard about her through the poet Scott Thurston, one of the organisers of the Other Room reading series in Manchester. The first poet that read at the night was Jim Goar (editor of Past Simple magazine) his reading was excellent but unfortunately I forgot to turn the camera on for his performance. Just one too many things to think about. The flyer for the night is displayed below:

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Luke Roberts Reading At Openned, 25th March 2009

[wpvideo RzyQdRht] Luke Roberts was the third poet to read at the Openned night. Luke's poem 'The Pretty Red Head' is published in Klatch magazine. Both Luke Roberts and Steve Willey read instead of an ill Keston Sutherland. Thanks Luke!

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Steve Willey Reading at Openned, 25th March 2009

[wpvideo WGJB5z4o] Steve Willey was the 4th poet to read at the Openned night and read from a work entitled 'Mercurial Jokes' a poem which was published in Klatch magazine under the name 'Mercurial Articulations' (10 of which were available for free on the back table). This work is part of a longer sequence which is as of yet untitled, this longer work includes the sequence Venus & Other Noises.

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Steve Willey/Luke Roberts Collaborative Reading at Openned, 25th March 2009

[wpvideo 1kAqYAZF] This collaborative reading by the poets Luke Roberts and Steve Willey was provisionally entitled: 'Mangle Something <" It's what flarf wishes it was">'   The collaborative element of this reading was completely improvised.

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