Write Out Loud November Newsletter
Welcome to the November Newsletter from Write Out Loud.
This month :
* Changes to Hebden Event
* Kulture Klub Rochdale Special
* Perform in Manchester
* Write Out Loud events in
November
* Poetry Competitions
* Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
* Review article from Jane Holland
This month's article comes from Tom Jenks who introduces us to experimental poetry in the other room Manchester
Changes to Write Out Loud Hebden Bridge Event
The Write Out Loud, Hebden Bridge, open-mic event is moving to the first Tuesday of the Month at the "Hole in the wall" public house, Hangingroyd Lane HX7 7DD.
So the next one will be start at 8pm on Tuesday 4th November
Kulture Klub Special in Rochdale
Write Out Loud, in association with Cartwheel Arts, is putting on a special event on the 19th at Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale.
As well as guest's Zahid Hussain, Gosia McKane, Nabila Suriya and Julian Daniels the night will include the launch of "Dress Code" magazine. Looks like being a great night so be there.
Perform in Manchester in January
There's a one day festival being organised in Manchester on the 17th of January at the Dancehouse Theatre and you can be a part of it. http://tinyurl.com/5bbyyx
Write Out Loud Events
All our other regular events continue through-out the month
6th - 7pm Caffe Nero, Wigan TBC check gig guide
13th - 8.30pm Tudor House, Wigan
16th - 8pm Howcroft Inn, Bolton
19th - 7.30pm Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
23rd - 8pm Boars Head, Middleton
Full Details of these and gigs from around the country in the Gig guide on the web site.
Poetry Competitions
Check out all the latest poetry competitions - see our News Section for the latest and send us details of your competition
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is taking place from the 7th to 9th November and is a mixture of performance and workshops. See News for more details
Review from Jane Holland
Read Jane Holland's review of Brendan Cleary's new book in our review section
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The Other Room
By Tom Jenks
The Other Room is a bimonthly reading series at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. Its somewhat unusual setting (the Science Park at dusk is like a J.G. Ballard novel with its empty executive parking spaces and haunted seminar rooms) fits with its mission. The Other Room is about doing something different.
The original impetus came from Alex Davies, who, with Steve Willey, runs the Openned readings in London. These evenings feature exciting, innovative writers and performers, from first timers to alumni of the leftfield such as Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan. Exiled to the frozen north (Wigan, to be precise) for crimes the precise nature of which he has yet to divulge, Alex set about creating something similar in Manchester. He and Steve got together with James Davies, Tom Jenks, Alex Middleton and Scott Thurston to talk about what was and wasn’t happening in the north west. From these discussions in various hostelries of ill-repute and across cyberspace came the notion that, whilst the poetry and performance scene in Manchester is strong and vibrant and attracts some dynamic and interesting individuals, there wasn’t anything that consistently featured the kind of writing that we all lean towards. Defining that kind of writing precisely is difficult, but the words ‘innovative’ and ‘experimental’ go some way towards it, as does that contentious retro-futurist phrase ‘avant garde’. Above all, The Other Room is about and for writers and performers who take risks, try different things and are, like Macbeth, in the grip of vaulting ambition, although we promise that no-one who attends The Other Room will be slain in a stairwell as The Old Abbey Inn is only on one floor.
The first event was in April 2008 and featured Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk and Tom Jenks. There was magic in the air that night as Alan deconstructed Ashbery and Geraldine brought the shade of Mary Queen of Scots blinking into the light beside the beer pumps. The response was warm and gratifying, affirming what we had felt and hoped to be true – that there is an audience in Manchester for work that is bold, and out of the mainstream, work which often gets labelled as ‘difficult’. The second evening, in June 2008, featured Alex Middleton reading her own translations of the Danish system poet Inger Christensen, Robert Sheppard and Hariet Tarlo. Future evenings, as well as continuing to showcase an array of dynamic contemporary writing, will also incorporate music, dance and multimedia elements.
As well as all of this, The Other Room is a great place to hang out and meet interesting people, where someone in one corner will be talking about Satie whilst in another someone else will be calibrating the socio-political meaning of Fernando Torres. The Other Room, as the name suggests, is all about creating a space where exciting things can happen. That space is now open. I suggest that you watch it.
Link: http://www.openned.com/manchester
This month :
* Changes to Hebden Event
* Kulture Klub Rochdale Special
* Perform in Manchester
* Write Out Loud events in
November
* Poetry Competitions
* Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
* Review article from Jane Holland
This month's article comes from Tom Jenks who introduces us to experimental poetry in the other room Manchester
Changes to Write Out Loud Hebden Bridge Event
The Write Out Loud, Hebden Bridge, open-mic event is moving to the first Tuesday of the Month at the "Hole in the wall" public house, Hangingroyd Lane HX7 7DD.
So the next one will be start at 8pm on Tuesday 4th November
Kulture Klub Special in Rochdale
Write Out Loud, in association with Cartwheel Arts, is putting on a special event on the 19th at Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale.
As well as guest's Zahid Hussain, Gosia McKane, Nabila Suriya and Julian Daniels the night will include the launch of "Dress Code" magazine. Looks like being a great night so be there.
Perform in Manchester in January
There's a one day festival being organised in Manchester on the 17th of January at the Dancehouse Theatre and you can be a part of it. http://tinyurl.com/5bbyyx
Write Out Loud Events
All our other regular events continue through-out the month
6th - 7pm Caffe Nero, Wigan TBC check gig guide
13th - 8.30pm Tudor House, Wigan
16th - 8pm Howcroft Inn, Bolton
19th - 7.30pm Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
23rd - 8pm Boars Head, Middleton
Full Details of these and gigs from around the country in the Gig guide on the web site.
Poetry Competitions
Check out all the latest poetry competitions - see our News Section for the latest and send us details of your competition
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is taking place from the 7th to 9th November and is a mixture of performance and workshops. See News for more details
Review from Jane Holland
Read Jane Holland's review of Brendan Cleary's new book in our review section
_________________________
The Other Room
By Tom Jenks
The Other Room is a bimonthly reading series at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. Its somewhat unusual setting (the Science Park at dusk is like a J.G. Ballard novel with its empty executive parking spaces and haunted seminar rooms) fits with its mission. The Other Room is about doing something different.
The original impetus came from Alex Davies, who, with Steve Willey, runs the Openned readings in London. These evenings feature exciting, innovative writers and performers, from first timers to alumni of the leftfield such as Charles Bernstein and Maggie O’Sullivan. Exiled to the frozen north (Wigan, to be precise) for crimes the precise nature of which he has yet to divulge, Alex set about creating something similar in Manchester. He and Steve got together with James Davies, Tom Jenks, Alex Middleton and Scott Thurston to talk about what was and wasn’t happening in the north west. From these discussions in various hostelries of ill-repute and across cyberspace came the notion that, whilst the poetry and performance scene in Manchester is strong and vibrant and attracts some dynamic and interesting individuals, there wasn’t anything that consistently featured the kind of writing that we all lean towards. Defining that kind of writing precisely is difficult, but the words ‘innovative’ and ‘experimental’ go some way towards it, as does that contentious retro-futurist phrase ‘avant garde’. Above all, The Other Room is about and for writers and performers who take risks, try different things and are, like Macbeth, in the grip of vaulting ambition, although we promise that no-one who attends The Other Room will be slain in a stairwell as The Old Abbey Inn is only on one floor.
The first event was in April 2008 and featured Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk and Tom Jenks. There was magic in the air that night as Alan deconstructed Ashbery and Geraldine brought the shade of Mary Queen of Scots blinking into the light beside the beer pumps. The response was warm and gratifying, affirming what we had felt and hoped to be true – that there is an audience in Manchester for work that is bold, and out of the mainstream, work which often gets labelled as ‘difficult’. The second evening, in June 2008, featured Alex Middleton reading her own translations of the Danish system poet Inger Christensen, Robert Sheppard and Hariet Tarlo. Future evenings, as well as continuing to showcase an array of dynamic contemporary writing, will also incorporate music, dance and multimedia elements.
As well as all of this, The Other Room is a great place to hang out and meet interesting people, where someone in one corner will be talking about Satie whilst in another someone else will be calibrating the socio-political meaning of Fernando Torres. The Other Room, as the name suggests, is all about creating a space where exciting things can happen. That space is now open. I suggest that you watch it.
Link: http://www.openned.com/manchester
Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:49 am
