Otoliths issue fifteen

Issue fifteen of Otoliths is now online. Check here for the extensive list of contributors.

LEAN UPSTREAM

Chris Goode is in the midst of a number of performances of his work taking place throughout November. Go to LEAN UPSTREAM for more information including dates, venues and guests.

Alien Memory Machine

Some new poems from the London section of Marcus Slease's Alien Memory Machine have been posted on The Argotist Online.

Positive Action

Saturday 21st November, 7.30pm

POSITIVE ACTION presents A BENEFIT for U-TURN

The U-Turn project is a Bethnal Green based charity that is both under exposed and under funded. Its main aim is to help and work with "vulnerable and hard to reach women of all ages who have been trapped in the cycle of prostitution, drug addiction, physical abuse and homelessness from a young age". U-Turn offers them "an opportunity to self-determine their future in their own communities". Their main mission is to "support women who have suffered cruelty and abuse and encourage them to make sustainable changes in their lives." U-Turn helps to try and change these forgotten women’s lives around. 

Performing on the night will be a mixture of bands and poets:

• Vile Vile Creatures
• Bitches
• Frances Kruk (yt communication)
• Trash Kit
• Francesca Lisette (Chlorine Readings)
• La La Vasquez

The Victoria, 110 Grove Road, Mile End E3 5TH

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Small Publishers Fair 2009

Friday 13th - Saturday 14th November, 11am - 7pm

Poetry presses include:

• Colin Sackett
• Coracle
• Essence
• Leafe/Bamboo
• Moschatel
• Reality Street
• Shearsman
• Veer
• West House

Saturday afternoon readings by:

• 1.30pm Royal Holloway Poetic Practice: Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, Karen Sandhu
• 2pm Shearsman Books: Linda Black & John Welch
• 2.30pm Kurt Johannesen: Everything & Nothing
• 3pm Les Coleman: Written, Drawn & Stapled (NY mimeos)
• 3.30pm Road Books: Judy Kravis
• 4pm Loose Teeth Press: Joey Comeau
• 4.30pm Reality Street: Wendy Mulford
• 5pm Light-Trap Press: Angela Gardner
• 5.30pm Veer Books & Torque Press: Will Rowe, Piers Hugill, Aodan McCardle, Tony Trehy, Antony John & Carol Watts

Plus an exhibition of vintage NY mimeos curated by Les Coleman and John Janssen.

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Admission free to exhibition and readings.

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Blue Bus Reading

Tuesday 17th November, 7.30pm

• Frances Presley
• Simon Smith

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room)

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Kent Johnson Interview

Jeffrey Side has interviewed Kent Johnson for the The Argotist Online.

Maggie O'Sullivan - ALTO

Maggie O'Sullivan's new book presents work from the 1970s & '80s: these powerfully constructed poems offer a place from which it becomes possible to exercise vital thought … rather than just to suffer life; to ride in sound and syntax the sinewy entanglement of material existence.


This publication, and all other Veer Books, will be available at the Small Publishers Fair 2009, as well as at various upcoming CPRC Birkbeck events, or by post directly from Veer. Contact Veer Books at veerbooks[at]gmail[dot]com for more information.

ISBN: 978-0-9558763-7-0

£7.50

The Other Room - Oxjam Videos

Videos of readings by Stuart Calton, James Davies and Tony Trehy at The Other Room's Oxjam event are now available to view on The Other Room website.

David-Baptiste Chirot - Zero Poem

Zero Poem, read by David-Baptiste Chirot over the score of the visual poem.

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