POLYply 10: VOICINGS

Contemporary Poetry and the University

 

University of Dreams

Tuesday 3rd May, 6 - 8pm

6 - 6.30pm drinks reception and opportunity to browse the exhibition.

6.30 - 8pm Iain Sinclair and Marina Warner will give talks and be in conversation about dream oracles, creative processes and the Essex unconscious (chair, Matt Ffytche); Will Montgomery - composition made from field recordings of the campus at night during the dream-recording fortnight; readings by Jeremy Reed and Ralph Hawkins.

The University of Dreams is a creative project, born out of the Essex Futures programme, that called upon all members of the University of Essex, from each campus, and from every area of work, study and play, to share their dreams. More information on the project can be found at http://www.essex.ac.uk/dreams/

We now invite you to attend the opening of an exhibition which offers a window onto the dream-life of the University. Excerpts from the submitted dreams will be displayed alongside photographs, CCTV footage and sound recordings of the Colchester Campus at night-time.

Lecture Theatre Building Foyer and LTB2, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Elmstead Rd, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ

Attendance is free but places are limited. Please e-mail dreams@essex.ac.uk to reserve your place.

The Claudius App

The Claudius App, an online journal of poetry, negative reviews, and criticism, is now accepting submissions for its first issue. As our statement of aims suggests, we're especially excited to receive submissions from current students and recent graduates. In addition to poems and negative reviews of contemporary books of poetry, we're also potentially interested in negative reviews of groups of books, groups of poems, magazines (including our own), canonical books, canonical magazines, etc.

Stylistically, we're looking for a little more 4chan, a little less Commentary, the All of Hyperion, fisting the hot air balloon whose suspension makes of us not the Hazlitts of our time, but of all time, like how Addison used to edit a magazine and now he owns a disease. Perpetual war for perpetual piecework! That aside, we aren't looking for any particular style or theme, just the best poetry and criticism being written today, and maybe tomorrow.

Submissions are taken via email, as are queries for longer reviews or essays, at submit@theclaudiusapp.com. Our submissions period for the first issue runs til May 15th. While we can pay you no more than attention, the first issue will feature an interview between Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland, so we can at least promise you good company.

Daniele Pantano and Robert Sheppard Reading

Thursday 5th May, 5.30pm

• Daniele Pantano
• Robert Sheppard

B005, ground floor Business Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk campus L39 4QP

Admission is free, all welcome.

Keston Sutherland Recording Online

A recording of a recent reading by Keston Sutherland is available to listen to online.

John Sparrow - Work-in-Progress: Digital Response to Mayer’s "Experiments"

I’ve been working on a digital response to Bernadette Mayer’s Experiments article. In this piece, I use erasure to remove portions of the tet to create new meanings and contexts, all the time using the same ‘material’ textual units (i.e. not dynamically rewriting the text, but removing text). As such, I’m trying to think about how textual economy and marking of texts can be explored on screen. That said, this was done on paper first…!

Check out my progress so far...

Check it out here.

A performance in the context of the exhibition 'Some Variations on a Theme of Bob'

Saturday 30th April, 1 - 4pm

• Jennifer Pike Cobbing (voice)
• Benedict Taylor (viola)
• Lawrence Upton (voice)

Some Variations on a Theme of Bob is curated Lawrence Upton, AHRC Research Fellow at Goldsmiths. Upton worked with Cobbing in a variety of capacities over many years.

SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

Website

zimZalla: Julius Kalamarz - AVENIR

Details here of the next object from zimZalla, due for publication in May.

Lawrence Upton - One Story of Bob Cobbing; POCKET LITTER

Lawrence Upton - One story of Bob Cobbing

A tidied up version of an introductory talk given extempore at the private view of Some variations on a theme of Bob at Space Galleries, London; 24th March 2011.

ISBN 978-1-84254-278-1

POCKET LITTER 1

Featuring work by:

• Tina Bass
• Alfonzo Grez
• Florina Kostulias
• Lawrence Upton
• Mike Weller

Each publication: £1.50 (£1 P&P) (UK), Writers Forum, April 2011 (A4, 16 pp.)

Send £2.50 to Writers Forum, 32 Downside Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5HP

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