Threads of Investigation: GOS SIP

A Reading

Written on November 3, 2011

Thursday 3rd November

Flat 1/1, 247 West Princes Street, 8pm

The Glasgow Review of Books and Glasgow Open School present the first of an occasional series of readings – of poetry, prose and everything in-between and far beyond. Literature knows few borders, save those which we impose on it, and these readings are interested in writing which engages with all periods, all countries and all styles.

The inaugural readers are:

PETER MANSON

Peter will be reading from the end of his sequence of poems “Sourdough Mutation”, due to be published as part of a book called Poems of Frank Rupture next year.

Peter’s books include For the Good of Liars and Adjunct: an Undigest (both from Barque Press) and Between Cup and Lip (Miami University Press, Ohio). His book of translations, Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse is forthcoming, also from Miami UP.

petermanson.com

BEN KNIGHT

One third of Helhesten and one half of record label and small press Psykick Dancehall, as well as a contributor to the Glasgow Review of Books, Ben will perform several short vocal pieces in different rooms making use of the objects and acoustics of each space.

psykickdancehallrecordings.com

FLORRIE JAMES

Florrie’s recent project The… Read more

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Glasgow Open School meets Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery

Written on June 10, 2011

Friday 10th June. 3pm – 5pm

Canadian experimental poets Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery are returning to Glasgow and will meet with the Open School to establish points of contact, and to share and discuss ideas, thoughts and activities. Exploratory with an eye on future work

Initial sources:

http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/carnival/

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/phillytalks/Philly-Talks-Episode19.html

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Meditations in an Occupation

Written on March 10, 2011

Proposition for Studies in Poetry No.3

Proposed Readings

Frank O’Hara – Meditations in an Emergency

Laozi – Selected Extracts from ‘Daodejing’

Proposed Location

The Free Hetherington

Propositions

1. We will begin by reading Meditations in an Emergency, and the selected extracts of Laozi out loud.

2. We will discuss the relationship between situation, occasion and the reading of poetry.

2.1. How does the situation and occasion when a poem was written affect the poem?

2.2. How does the situation and occasion when a poem is spoken affect the poem?

2.2.1. How does reading a poem aloud in a space / situation like the Free Hetherington affect the poem?

This is yours. Alter, expand, elucidate, discard?

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Silence and Symbolism

Written on February 10, 2011

Proposition for Studies in Poetry No.1

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker” – Mallarmé

Proposed Readings

Stéphane Mallarmé - Collected Poems and Other Verse

Propositions

1. The session will last for one hour

2. We will base this time around one text of poetry

2.1 That text will be the Collected poems of Mallarmé http://aaaaarg.org/text/13592/collected-poems-and-other-verse

3. We will model our practice upon the forms of a Quaker meeting.

3.1. “A Quaker Meeting is based on silence, an expectant silence of waiting, in which we seek to come nearer to each other and to God. Occasionally a Meeting will pass in total silence. The silence may be broken if someone feels compelled by the Spirit to speak, pray or read. The Meeting ends after about an hour with the shaking of hands.”

3.1.1. For Quaker meetings, the common text is the Bible, for our meeting the common text is Mallarmé

3.1.2. Each person present can speak only once

3.1.3. If you are motivated to speak, you can choose to read directly from Mallarmé or offer responses and thoughts to the work or the words of others

3.2. At the start of the session, we will… Read more

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