Readings by (the new) Marjorie Welish - (her own) Geraldine Monk - (our
own) Josh Robinson

>The book stall will be opened and we are delighted that Josh Robinson's 
>book
'Shift Report' is out now from AREHOUSE and on sale for the very 
unreasonable
(its a steal) £2. Josh will be at the event with a potato, some poster paint
and his imagination to carve signatures into said potato, cover it with
poster paint and daub on each fresh purchase of 'Shift Report', his new
book, out now, for £2. Anyone who doesnt buy one will just be daubed. Books
can be purchased from Me or Neil Pattison, let us know on [log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask]

> Monday 31st at 8 p.m.
> Drama Studio
> Faculty of English
> 9 West Road
> see www.barquepress.com
> All Welcome
> Wine will be served.
>

> Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn in 1952, but has moved. Her books
> include "Interregnum" (1994), "Dream Drover" (1999) and "Noctivagations"
> (2001). Texts from Monk's poems have been set to/as music with composer
> Martin Archer and recorded as "Angel High Wires" (2001). Salt published
her
> Selected Poems in 2003. She lives in Sheffield.
>
> Josh Robinson is studying in Cambridge. His first chapbook, the sequence
> "Shift Report", has recently been published by AREHOUSE press - selections
> from this poem have been published previously in Quid.
>
> Marjorie Welish's collections of poems include "The Annotated "Here" and
> Selected Poems" (2000), "Casting Sequences" (1993), "The Windows Flew
Open"
> (1991) and "Handwritten" (1979). Her work has also been widely
> anthologised. Her writing on art has appeared in such magazines as "Art
in
> America", "Art International", "Partisan Review", and "Salmagund", and
a
> selection of her art criticism, "Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 
> 1960",
> was published in 1999. She is the current Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow
at
> Cambridge.
>
> GERALDINE MONK: from INTERREGNUM
>
> ...(Stumbling Survival)...
>
> ...giddy with
>                        it
> sharp
> stumb
>            hotmolt'n
> it give:
>            sinew
>            ligament
> dried mud under painted
>            fing-erd
> nails chipped red
>            lips
> tic grimace
> it give:
>            raw
>            wind-chap
> cheap little finger-ring
> glad-stabbed hanging wish
>            boned...
>
> JOSH ROBINSON: from SHIFT REPORT
>
> Fragrant committee decides on claim to
> own areas declined by misspent youth
> training for missed opportunities. New
> strategies begin to query penalties put
> out by rambling colloquium. Determine
> mediation fulfilment of disputed borders
> ask if permanent exposure will endanger
> as if abduction prohibits heightened scope
> for conscious handling. Settle.
>
> MARJORIE WELISH: from North Perimeter Road
>
> Having to forego open doors for that which is sculpture’s submitting to
> poetry - or unnaming it, "it" assumed to be what? Enter the turnstile
> poetry-as-sculpture that is the name roving through some falling
> decomposition. Poetry-as-sculpture indented through silent matter might
> slip in. Listening in a labyrinth, singing into a corner of a thought:
it
> being sculpted lip-synch without having to say, whispering permanently The
> Haves
>       The Have-Nots
> for that which forego open doors and may be assumed to be
> floating here and here also. Your initials. "It" however is indicative
> of your having submitted to discrepant descriptions
> of unnaming. And here also. Here is your turnstile
> called "performance."

Yours, Neil Pattison (njrp3), Sam Ladkin (sdl24) and Edward Holberton.