Jennifer Pike Cobbing 90th Birthday Celebration

Saturday 10th July, 4pm onwards

The workshop featuring some work specially prepared for the occasion will commence at 4pm. After a short interval, at approximately 6pm, a second session will feature performances by:

• Sean Bonney
• Patricia Farrell
• Ulli Freer
• Frances Kruk
• Robert Sheppard
• Mike Weller

The 13th issue of AND, edited by Adrian Clarke and Ulli Freer, will also be launched at this event. Jennifer's new book from Veer Books, The Conglomerization of Wot (Veer 029), will also be available on the day.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BL

Admission is free, all welcome.

New Bob Cobbing Publications

Dandelion Collaboration

Price unknown, No Press, 2010 (hand-sewn, 40 copies available) 

LOUISE GATE

$3, No Press, 2010 (hand-sewn, 25 copies available)

Contact Derek Beaulieu to order copies.

Knives, Forks and Spoons Offer

Alec Newman is running special offers over at Knives, Forks and Spoons Press:

Any three books for £10

Any 10 books for £30

Plus a whole batch of new publications.

CLR3:TRANSLATION

Now available to order, featuring:

Poetry

• Joel Calahan: Four Genovese Poets
• Anne Blonstein: [Psalm] 13.
• Caroline Bergvall: The Fried Tale (London Zoo), Part 1
• Reitha Pattison: Four poems from the French of Bertran de Born
• Raymond Geuss: Avis Pacis and other poems
• Jonty Tiplady: Two poems
• Marianne Morris: Pierre Reverdy’s Art Moderne Retouché
• Henri Deluy: The Oath of Strasbourg, translated by Jacqueline Kari
• Peter Manson: extracts from Mallarmé’s The Marrying of Hérodiade: Mystery
• Ian Heames: Sonnet and Out of Villon
• Charles Lambert: Readings of Jean Genet
• Nicholas Moore: Eight Poems from the Nicaraguan
• Richard Owens: Four Ballads
• Andrzej Sosnowski: Three poems, translated by Rod Mengham
• Grzegorz Wróblewski: Richard’s Head, translated by Agnieszka Pokojska
• Alistair Noon: Two poems by Osip Mandelstam
• Adam Polnay: Versions of a poem by Hesse
• Sean Bonney: after Rimbaud Prose

Prose

• Eric Hazan: Faubourg Saint-Antoine [translated by David Fernbach]
• Kurt Schwitters: The Onion (Merzpoem 8) [translated by Peter Wortsman]
• André Gide: The Evolution of Theatre [translated by Julian Evans]
• Jeremy Hardingham: Enter Unfolding Exit
• Emily Critchley: Some Curious Thing

Essays

• J.H. Prynne: Difficulties in the Translation of “Difficult” Poems
• Lydia Davis: The Architecture of Thought
• Haun Saussy: Jean Métellus: A Portrait of the Artist as Horse
• Nick Jardine: Old friends (as opposed to falseand fickle)
• Yonatan Mendel: The Politics of Non-Translation: On Israeli Translations of Intifada, Shahid, Hudna and Islamic Movements
• David Bellos: Halting Walter
• Christopher Burke: Back to basics: Otto Neurath and Isotype
• Peter Zinovieff: Nuzuh

Richard Barrett - Sidings

£5, White Leaf Press, August 2010 (89 pages)

ISBN 978-0955193279

Pre-order via the Bookshelf.

The Arthur Shilling Back Catalogue

Now available, featuring:

• Harry Godwin - The Benholm Potato Growers
• Richard Barrett - Pig Fervour
• Linus Slug - the ffrass gazette
• Michael Zand - kval
• Nat Raha - Notes on Tauheed
• Neil Addison - The Everyday of Irma Kite
• Simon Howard - ZOOAXEIMPLODE
• Stephen Emmerson - 'X'
• Mark Cobley - The Flaming Man
• Joseph Stohlman - I love you
• William Garvin - no exit
• Posie Rider - tristanundisolde

12 titles for £25.

CHICAGO REVIEW 55:2

Now available. Featuring:

• Matt Briggs
• Durs Grünbein
• Rob Halpern
• Simon Jarvis
• Kristina Jipson
• Pierre Joris
• Gary Lutz
• Stéphane Mallarmé (trans. by Peter Manson)
• Erika Mikkalo
• Jennifer Moxley
• Susan Stewart
• Jean Valentine
• John Wilkinson
• Elizabeth Winer
• Andrew Zawacki

Jon Clay - Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative Intensities

John Hall:

With wonderfully patient intelligence, and without ever succumbing to polemic, Jon Clay puts to work the lexicon of Deleuze (and Guattari) on a question that has haunted modernist poetics: what is it that poems do when you read them, especially when they are “difficult”? Very carefully, he sets out the terms and, just as carefully, he demonstrates their practicality through reading poems, many of them “recalcitrant”, by contemporary UK-based poets, including Andrea Brady, the late Douglas Oliver, J.H. Prynne and Denise Riley. His close readings confirm the validity both of the method – one that is necessarily self-unsettling – and of the poems thus encountered.

This book is a very welcome contribution to the poetics and pragmatics of reading. It shows how it is possible to say what it is that poems do and how this is not the same as saying what they (seem to) say, all the while arguing that another(’s) reading would be a different reading and thus call, perhaps, for another writing.

£48.96, Continuum, May 2010 (208 pages)

ISBN 978-0826424242

Available via the Bookshelf

J.H. Prynne - SUB SONGS

This is the first book by Prynne since Triodes in 1999 to depart from the sequence of reiterated stanzaic blocks into a suite of more freely shaped individual lyrics. It's the first since Bands Around the Throat in 1987 to give individual lyrics each with its own title. The dimensions of the object point a comparison with Brass, 1971.

£10 + £4 P&P, Barque Press, May 2010 (22 pages)

New from Knives, Forks and Spoons

2010 (33 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9565418-9-5

2010 (40 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9565418-8-8

Both publications: £6, Knives, Forks & Spoons Press.