Lancaster University: The Critic Artist As the Artist Critic

Saturday 27th June 2009

the critic artist as the artist critic …exploring or enacting what it might now mean to fuse literary criticism and creative writing – or, if you will, the work of the critic and that of the artist…

Speakers/readers:

• Valentine Cunningham (Oxford)
• Paul Farley (Lancaster)

Plus:

• Susan Bradley Smith (La Trobe, Melbourne)
• Sarah Brown (Anglia Ruskin)
• Abi Curtis (Sussex)
• Helen Farish
• Ewan Fernie (Royal Holloway)
• Simon Palfrey (Brasenose, Oxford)
• John Goodby (Swansea)
• James Holden (Nottingham Trent)
• Sarah Jackson (Sussex)
• Simon King
• Dr Kevin Mills
• Harold Schweizer (Bucknell)
• Tony Sharpe (Lancaster)
• Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill)
• Will Slocombe (Aberystwyth)
• Jonathan Taylor (De Montfort)
• Oliver Tearle (Loughborough)
• Dr Scott Thurston (Salford)
• Sam Trainor (Lille 3)

£35 speakers / £15 salaried / £10 unsalaried (includes lunch, coffee, tea, day will conclude with wine reception sponsored by sussex academic press). All papers will be considered for inclusion in an edited volume of writings to be published as part of Sussex Academic Press’s series ‘critical inventions.’ University of Lancaster, Department of English and Creative Writing Website

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Writers House: Robert Coover

I just spent a wonderful two days with Robert Coover, visiting us as a Writers House Fellow, our first of three this spring (next up is Joan Didion). The reading Bob gave last night was riveting. He read all languagy stuff - prose-poems, really. Antic, thick with sound, featuring some of his many imitative American voices.

Head to Al Filreis for links to audio.

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Double Change

Two DVD sets of readings from the Paris Double Change poetry series, featuring: Set 1, 2004/5:

• Charles Bernstein | Juliette Valéry
• Jean-François Bory | Rosmarie Waldrop
• Rae Armantrout | Philippe Beck
• Cécile Mainardi | Joe Ross | Yannick Liron
• Jacques Roubaud | Keith Waldrop
• Norma Cole | Emmanuel Hocquard
• Cole Swensen
• Valérie Mréjen | Bill Berkson
• Walt Whitman Hom(m)age 2005 | 1855

Set 2, 2005/6:

• Joseph Mouton | Robert Grenier
• Oscarine Bosquet | Kristin Prevallet
• Yves Di Manno | Jerome Rothenberg
• Jerome Rothenberg
• Isabelle Garron | Tracy Grinnell
• Tom Raworth | Pierre Alferi
• Pierre Fourny | Thalia Field
• Bernard Heidsieck | Karen Mac Cormack | Steve Mccaffery
• Kathleen Fraser | Ryoko Sekiguchi

camera by Meryem Delagarde edited by Abigail Lang & Dominique Pasqualini Purchase Double Change website

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26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)

In November of 2008, derek beaulieu approached a number of poets and conceptual writers. He asked each to fulfill a series of simple instructions: "On a single sheet of paper in letters approximately one half inch tall write the alphabet from A to Z".

Includes work from:

• Gareth Jenkins
• Lorenzo Menoud
• Oana Avasilichioaei
• Helen Hajnoczky
• Robert Fitterman
• Donato Mancini
• Gregory Betts
• Jonathan Ball
• Nico Vassilakis
• Mark Laliberte
• Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
• Christian Bök
• Harold Abramowitz
• Johanna Drucker
• Giles Goodland
• Ross Priddle
• Gitte Broeng
• John Bennett
• Crag Hill
• Peter Ganick
• Jeff Hilson
• Peter Jaeger
• Nick Thurston
• Stephen McLaughlin
• Kjetil Røed
• Kevin McPherson Eckhoff

Produced in an edition of 100 copies, 48 of which are available for purchase for $25.00 at Lulu.

via Crg Hill

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La Langoustine est Morte

Saturday 7th March, 7.30pm

• AnnMarie Eldon
• Stephanie Leal
• Cristina Viti
• Stephen Watts
• Michael Zand

Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London (Tube: Covent Garden) Admission is free.

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Latta on Reality Street Book of Sonnets

John Latta on Jeff Hilson's Reality Street Book of Sonnets:

The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008), edited by Jeff Hilson, land’d in the new books here and I snatch’d it up, drug it home, thumb’d it up and down, read through Hilson’s bounty-bag of an introduction and am here to say it is terrific, a bigger, woollier beast than I’d imagined, absolutely trophy material.

Latta's blog posts are consistently impressive.

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Amiri Baraka reads Charles Olson

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3_bZw_poc] via Possum Ego

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Cambridge Readings

Every Wednesday in March, 1.15 - 1.45pm Four contemporary poets read the works of four 20th century poets, each intimately connected with artists exhibited in the house.

• 4 March J.H. Prynne responding to Ezra Pound
• 11 March Leo Mellor responding to David Jones
• 18 March Melanie Challenger responding to Adrian Stokes
• 25 March Ian Patterson responding to W. S. Graham

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge (Black door on the small courtyard opposite the gallery entrance from 1 pm). via Vents

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Toilet

An exhibition which has opened in New York takes the unlikely step of placing fake works of art on display. The Brooklyn Museum, like many others, began buying ancient Coptic and Pagan sculptures after World War II. However, the museum's curators recently discovered that roughly a third of their collection is fake. The resulting exhibition places genuine sculptures from the 4th Century AD alongside a small group of forgeries, probably from the mid-20th Century.

via the BBC

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Gertrude Stein B-Day Playlists, Pt. 3 & 4

Pt. 3 Pt. 4 Courtesy of Paul Baker.

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