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Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Hosea 4:18 King James Version
3rd August (evening) 2018 at the Ham Marquee, Sidmouth (supporting Peter Knight & John Spiers).
Sidmouth Folk Week.
Country: Britain. Style: Performance Poetry (mainly Comic Monologues).
Lineup: Les Barker (recitations).
Les Barker is from Manchester, and has lived in Wales for many years. His poems are full of wordplays, and he has mostly performed them in Folk Clubs. Either solo or for a period joined by musicians under the banner of the Mrs Ackroyd Band (for what were often parodies of traditional Folk Songs). His selection here were nearly all comic ("An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables", "The Boy Who Was Raised By Lemmings", "The Church of the Wholly Undecided", "Dachshunds With Erections Can't Climb Stairs", "Disaster at Sea", "Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg?", "I don't like my boomerang", "The inflatable boy", "Reg Was a Lonely Glow Worm", "Shi Tzu") and one serious one ("Remembrance"). The atmosphere in the tent was similar to one of those Folk Club which thrives on choruses, with a substantial part of the audience joining in the recitation of their favourite lines.
More information: www.mrsackroyd.com/.
Join us for an evening with Jerome Rothenberg!
8pm
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Library
Arts Court
2 Daly Ave.,
Ottawa, Ont.
More info: abseries.org/
JEROME ROTHENBERG's publishing career began in the late 1950s as a translator of German poetry, first for Hudson Review and then for City Lights Books. Founding Hawk's Well Press in 1959, Rothenberg used it as a venue to publish collections by some of the up-and-coming poets of the era, including Diane Wakoski and Robert Kelly. He also self-published his first book of poems, White Sun Black Sun, under the Hawk's Well imprint. From the beginning, his work embodied experimentation with syntax, image, and form that drew on varied influences and moved in diverse directions. Poetic and artistic forebears such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Dali, the Dadaists, Ezra Pound, and Walt Whitman affected the voice and content of his early work. In a career that has already spanned half a century, including seventy books of his own poetry, plus plays, acclaimed anthologies, and other works, Rothenberg has gone on to explore primitive and archaic poetry, sound poetry, found poetry, visual poetry, collaborations, further translations, his own Jewish heritage, and much more.
Rothenberg identified with both the twentieth-century avant-garde and with "a range of tribal and subterranean poetries" that can provide "a poetics big enough to account for human creativity, human language-making, over the broadest span available." Of his poetry and his experimental "anthology-assemblages," he once wrote: "My own contributions (nomenclature and praxis) have included 'deep image,' ethnopoetics, 'total translation,' poetics of performance, and assorted attempts 'to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present."
Rothenberg is widely and highly respected as a consummate anthologist and poetic theorist as well as a poet. In the massive 1,700-page, two-volume Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, edited with Pierre Joris, Rothenberg presents what Hacsi Horvath of Whole Earth considered "a brilliant kaleidoscope of writing unstuck in time, both in English and in fine translation, from numerous archaic/modern/postmodern voices." Writing in Vort, Kenneth Rexroth described Rothenberg and his poetry in the following way: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of the truly contemporary American poets who has returned US poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature.”
This is a Poem: SENSE/AntiSENSE
This project is the result of a collaboration between Jason Taellious, Richard Thietje, Jim Hill and Meesh Rheault Miller. This project explores the fusion of a new form of performance poetry and experimental film. Contrapuntal language and synchronicity are layered with added strata of visuals, sound and music. The viewer experiences the intention of the words on multiple levels – a sort of ephemeral sound sculpture and visual alchemy the unexpected result of reinventing media.
To view the film go here:
Theatre and stories inside a beautiful caravan. Various events at the 2016 Words in the City and Ilkley Literature Festival.
Photos from #StraightOutTheBox 11.05.16
With performances from Caleb Femi, Dean McCaffrey, Kayo Chingonyi, and MOOZ.
Straight Out The Box offers up a fresh series of events set in Brixton's pioneering space, Pop Brixton, boasting an exceptional line-up of artists from poets to musicians, writers to DJs. curated by Charlie Dark and Roger Robinson.
Photo credit: Nina McDonagh
3rd June 2016 at King and Queen, London W1.
“Dublin Night”, Musical Traditions Folk Club, www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/mustrad/mtc.html.
This evening consisted mostly of songs about or associated with Dublin (e.g. "Biddy Mulligan, "The Forgetful Sailor", "The Maid of Cabra West", "The Ragman's Ball", "The Charlady's Ball"). More specifically of songs relating to James Joyce (given the proximity to the 16th June the annual Bloomsday celebration derived from the day in 1904 on which the action of Ulysses takes place), and concerning the Easter Rising (with the 100th anniversary happening during the preceeding month).
Country: Britain (Irish descent). Style: Performance Poetry.
Lineup: Peter “Racker” Donnelly (recitations).
Racker Donnelly was born in Sheffield to Irish parents. He described Bray as his "spiritual home". He spent time there with his uncle and aunt during the war as an evacuee and in school holidays (and later attended Blackrock College as a border and then UCD). He also returned to Ireland living in Bray (and Sandycove) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Retired from a career in journalism he was now dedicated himself to his poetry. I took photos of him doing a floorspot when Will Duke & Dan Quinn performed at this club in 2012, see: www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/sets/72157632379498657/.
More information: www.rackerdonnelly.com/.
Kirsty Taylor at Bradford Playhouse. Various events at the 2016 Words in the City and Ilkley Literature Festival.
Apples and Snakes: Liz and Rob on Sea - October 2013
Liz Bentley and Rob Auton take to the water at Clissold Leisure Centre for an evening of poetry in the pool!
Photos courtesy of Suzi Corker Photography suzicorkerphotography.tumblr.com/
Poster for Barnstormer 1994 events (the Southwick Alternative), held at the Barn Theatre, Southwick between January and May 1994. Performers included Attila the Stockbroker (who also organised and compered), Levi Tafari, Blyth Power, The Robb Johnson Band, Benjamin Zephaniah, John Cooper Clarke, and Jean Binta Breeze.