Wednesday, 28 November 2012
David Berridge, from The Poet is Working
An extract from The Poet is Working by David Berridge, forthcoming from Department Press
Sunday, 25 November 2012
27.11.2012
Poetry /// from Department Press
Please join Department Press at Kraak, Manchester on
Tuesday 27 November from 7.30 pm to hear readings from Sarah Crewe, Andy
Spragg, Gareth Twose and Rhys Trimble.
Entry is free.
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Sarah Crewe has recently co-edited Catechism:
Poems For Pussy Riot. Her chapbook Aqua Rosa was released
by erbacce earlier this year. She has a forthcoming chapbook, flick
invicta, with Oystercatcher in 2013. She co-edits M58, an ezine for visual
poetry, with Andrew Taylor. She has had work in Department,
Otoliths, the Red Ceilings blog, erbacce and
has work forthcoming in Tears In The Fence.
Andrew Spragg is a poet, performer and critic.
His books include The Fleetingest (Red Ceiling Press), Notes
for Fatty Cakes (Anything Anymore Anywhere) and cut out (Department
Press). He edits Infinite Editions, a blog that publishes free poetry postcards
for download and distribution.
Gareth Twose is currently organiser of Writers'
Forum North. Co-organiser of recent Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot
event. Has recently had poems published in Sunfish, Depart, Assent,
Litter web zine and 3 am (forthcoming). Formerly a newspaper
journalist.
Rhys Trimble: welsh poet of degrees & cutter &
perforce performer DEARHWCH, PRY-LLWYD BLAIDD-BLOEDDIWR rascal...Bilingual poet
based in Bethesda, North Wales . Improvisor interested in medieval welsh DEAD
language & bilingual poetry, music/poetry, collaborations, digital-art and
avant POST garde writing practices. Editor of Ctrl+Alt+Del http://cad.theabsurd.co.uk Ezine
and studying for a ‘psychomythogeographical’ PhD in creative writing. Stick
banger, SHOUTYMAN.
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Ali Znaidi, three poems
radiation//radioactivity//
& the red sun discharges its radioactive rays
& the red sun spits radioactive invisible lava
stuffed w/ damp daffodils, the little ditches
smile at the radioactive contrite promises of
the red sun
& the red roses begin to carve a garden of
radioactive blood where children’s laughters
chime
sun red sun
decants red wine
for daffodils
radioactive promises rehearsed
...
...
Fig Hallucinations
reconfigurations
fringe
fridge
achromatic
romanticisation
regiment
...
...
Spelling Mistakes
rite a passage a boat dying your hair
then weight till you get what you want
I want to take notice first
& wash my face w/ a hand full of water
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Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia where he teaches English at Tunisian public secondary schools. He writes poetry and has an interest in literature, languages, and literary translations. His work has appeared in The Camel Saloon, phantom kangaroo, BoySlut, The Rusty Nail, Shot Glass Journal, the fib review, streetcake magazine, Ink Sweat and Tears, Mad Swirl, The Red Ceilings blog, & other ezines. His debut poetry chapbook Experimental Ruminations was published in September 2012 by Fowlpox Press (Canada). He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network—http://sixsentences.
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