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The Other Room

The Other Room 3rd birthday & launch of The Other Room Anthology 3; would love to see you there. 6th April 2011, The Old Abbey Inn, Manchester, M15 6AY, FREE entry Ken Edwards, Carrie Etter, Alec Finlay & Derek Henderson (live stream) Ken Edwards is the editor and publisher of Reality Street. He has had numerous books and pamphlets published including: Good Science: Poems 1983-1991 (Roof Books, NY, 1992), No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-1995 (Shearsman Books, 2006), Songbook (Shearsman, 2009). Carrie Etter is an American poet based in the UK. Her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren Books in June 2009 and in 2011 Divining for Starters was published by Shearsman. She is the editor of the important Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets and is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing for Bath Spa University. Alec Finlay is an artist, poet & publisher. Born in Scotland in 1966, he now lives in the North-East of England. He is author of coun

50 Heads Revealed

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I thought that this would just be a blog that pointed to Phil Davenport's review of my book of 2006 50 Heads , http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2011/03/never-to-have-compromised-with.html which I would illustrate with an image from the installation of one of my texts at the Dubai Drawingspace (above). At the last minute, I thought of adding one of my favourite 50 Heads poems; then came the surprise. On opening the folder, I uncovered maybe another 8 'Heads' poems that I decided not to include because the structural mathematics of the whole only required 49. I had completely forgotten these existed - as my dad jokes the upside of Alzheimer's is you are always making new friends. So here is a new Head: Distance 0. How long ago it was. Closeness is measured by how many fluents change. The place and the placing matter little and for clarity, for order, for certainty. When sweat can move you through the air, stochastic on the way, the heresy lays inside dedication to

Designing the Text Festival exhibitions

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The festival exhibitions are rapidly taking shape!

Copenhagen

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Although Copenhagen was a short holiday, I managed to take in some exhibitions. All three of the spaces I saw were worth the visit just for the spaces themselves. The most enjoyable was Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a delightful architectural experience, really impressive Eypgtian and Roman collections and beautifully curated. http://traveldk.com/copenhagen/dk/highlight/ny-carlsberg-glyptotek The only irritant in the visit was a rather clumsy pink plastic interpretation/response to some of the Roman sculpture by Louise Bourgeois called “Nature Study”. Oddly when I look at a photo of it now http://www.flickr.com/photos/15434282@N00/4927611588/ I quite like it, but in the context of the brilliant set piece curating of the Roman gallery it inhabited it was annoying in its location. Bourgeois wasn’t so impressive either at Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen. Given my previously expressed complete disinterest in anything to do with children and distaste at the desperate romanticism attached t