The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry edited by Tony Lopez has just been published. I have an essay included and there are lots of other exciting looking contributions..
It is a remarkable phenomenon that the foremost among recent sites of this interrogation of boundaries has been a series of festivals located in Bury, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester. World leading artists and poets have been brought together in a range of exhibitions and performances that demonstrate a new and productive collision of different cultural enterprises and expectations. Among those shown at the Text Festivals are Fiona Banner, derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Joseph Beuys, Christian Bok, Brass Art, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Buchler, Augusto de Campos, Zeynep Cansu, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Liz Collini, Philip Davenport, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Eugen Gomringer, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Alexander Jorgenson, Satu Kaikonen, Martin Kippenburger, Karri Kokko, Marton Koppany, On Kawara, Helmut Lemke, Richard Long, Tony Lopez, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjorg Mayer, Steve Miller, Kerry Morrison, Maurizio Nannucci, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Holly Pester, Tom Philips, Shaun Pickard, Kate Pickering, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Spencer Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Ron Silliman, Mary Ellen Solt, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Harald Stoffers, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Aysegul Tozeren, TNWK, Tony Trehy, Nico Vasilakis, Carol Watts, Lawrence Weiner, George Widener, Ming Wong, and Eric Zboya. Artists, poets and curators working in these overlapping fields have written this book. It includes new essays by Tony Trehy (director of the Text Festivals), derek beaulieu, Christian Bok, Liz Collini, James Davies, Philip Davenport, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Tony Lopez, Holly Pester, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Carolyn Thompson, and Carol Watts. OUT NOW from Plymouth University Press or via Amazon.
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 A poem in PowerPoint format published by blart online magazine. If you click HERE you can get to it, you'll need to scroll down a little.
Information on the project reads - This presentation is comprised of 16 slides, each five seconds long. The slides will automatically switch. The next slide contains a portion of Wednesday July 7th, 1971 (A Greyhound Bus Trip) from The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, The Library of America 2012. I'll be reading new work I've been writing with Philip Terry for the last six months or so.  The Camarade poetry festival is a unique one day explosion of dynamic collaboration in contemporary avant garde and literary poetics. 100 poets align in 50 pairs, each writing an original collaborative work, written specifically for the festival and premiered on the day. The 5th Camarade event, and the crescendo of the Enemies project’s first year, this ambitious exploration of the possibilities of collaboration in poetry will evidence the true width and depth of poetry that is happening now.
http://www.weareenemies.com/camaradefest.html {2pm – Session I} David Berridge & Mary Paterson Kirsty Irving & Jon Stone Jeff Hilson & Fabian MacPherson Edmund Hardy & James Wilkes Giles Goodland & Alistair Noon Mendoza & Nat Raha Marek Kazmierski& Wioletta Grzegorzewska Matt Dalby & Steven Waling Tom Chivers & Ross Sutherland {3.30pm – Session II} Marcus Slease & Claire Potter Rhys Trimble & Harry Gilonis Bea Colley & Francine Elena Pascal O'Laughlin& Scott Thurston Ghazal Mosadeq & Ricardo Marques Sarah Crewe & Jo Langdon Andy Spragg & Joe Kennedy Robert Sheppard & Robert Hampson {5pm – Session III} Ahren Warner & Mark Waldron Julia Bird & Sarah Hesketh Ekaterina Paronian& Sophie Mayer Chrissy Williams & Nia Davies Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde Stephen Watts & Will Rowe Zoe Skoulding & Ondrej Buddeus Oli Hazzard & Caleb Klaces {7.30pm – Session IV} Carol Watts & George Szirtes Tim Atkins & Jessica Pujol I Duran Ryan Van Winkle & William Letford Jack Underwood & Alex MacDonald Joanna Rzadkowska& Kristen Kreider Stephen Connolly& Emily Hasler Sophie Collins & Rachael Allen Deborah Pearson & Tamarin Norwood Sarah Kelly & Gabriele Lebanauskaite {9pm – Session V} Holly Pester & Emma Bennett Sam Riviere & Joe Dunthorne Ollie Evans & Robert Kiely Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner Christodoulos Makris& Kim Campanello Reza Mohammedi & Ana Seferovic James Davies & Philip Terry James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks The Enemies project is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Arts Council England. www.weareenemies.com I will be reading at this event in Manchester on 12th October. It starts around 8 o'clock.  |