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zimZalla object 001 conference paper

zimzalla — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:18 +0000

Opposable Dumbs by Tina Darragh is the subject of a paper at the Contemporary Poetry and Source Conference at Plymouth University. This object is available as a free PDF download. You can watch Tom Jenks’ interview with Tina Darragh for The Other Room below and find her accompanying reading on The Other Room site.

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Board game – a hiatus

zimzalla — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:01:51 +0000

Production difficulties mean object 014 – Stephen Emmerson’s A never ending poem read with dice that goes on to explore the possibilities of human intervention within the context & illusion of chance – is currently out of stock and not available to buy. This object will become available again at a later date.

Future Everything 19th May

zimzalla — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:00:32 +0000

zimZalla will be pitching its tent (a carbon neutral avant garde yurt) at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention at Victoria Baths, Manchester on Saturday 19th May, part of the Future Everything festival. A whole range of objects will be on sale, including a very limited number of Poetea by Jo Langton, the next zimZalla object, which will not be officially released until 11th June. In addition, the stall will also stock books by if p then q and The Red Ceilings, with whom zimZalla has signed non-alignment pacts for unspecified strategic reasons.

Live Gnomes

zimzalla — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:37:21 +0000

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks will be reading at The Angel Centre in Salford on Sunday 6th May at 3.30 pm as part of the Sounds of the Other City festival. In addition to individual sets, they will be performing both of their Camarade collaborations in full. Here is a film of Gnomes, the first part of the sequence, read at the Rich Mix in London in October 2011.

object 014 now available

zimzalla — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:13:40 +0000

zimZalla object 014 is A never ending poem read with dice that goes on to explore the possibilities of human intervention within the context & illusion of chance by Stephen Emmerson. This is a fully playable board game which generates multiple aleatory readings of poem text fragments. These readings are created by dice rolls and disrupted by disaster cards. The set also includes a single player version of the game. In total, the game box contains a full colour fabric board, three game counters, a six-sided die, a twelve-sided die, thirty-six poem cards, twelve disaster cards and a single player text booklet. Available now for £5 including postage and packaging. Email for details or pay by Paypal.

The Camarade project: édition II

zimzalla — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:14:16 +0000

Maintenant Poetry X entrance free for all
The Camarade project: édition II – 11 pairs of Britain’s most vital poets read original collaborations written specifically, in partnership, for this event.

Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland, Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks, Sophie Collins & Sam Riviere, Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle, Maria Fusco & Andrea Brady, Richard Barrett & Nathan Jones, James Davies & Stephen Emmerson, Philip Terry & Jeff Hilson, Tim Atkins & Carrie Etter, Katerina Kashchavtseva & Lucy Harvest Clarke, Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease. Check the Facebook page for more.

A World According to G.W.

zimzalla — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:24:05 +0000

zimZalla writer Grzegorz Wróblewski is interviewed at Jacket Magazine.

Gnomes

zimzalla — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:14:14 +0000

Many would call Tom Jenks the orverlord of zimZalla if they only knew who he was. As evidence of his existence, here is a book by him and the estimable Chris McCabe, entitled Gnomes and available for £3.50 from Red Ceilings Press.

A review of zimZalla Object 005

zimzalla — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:22:40 +0000

“…an unusual item consisting of a cotton bag containing a magnifying glass and a miniature booklet not much bigger than a postage stamp. The whole thing was delightfully novel for my first ever Sabotage review, and challenged any pre-conceptions I might have had about reviewing poetry in print.”

By Suzannah Evans at Sabotage.

object 013: now available

zimzalla — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:42:46 +0000

zimZalla object 013 is Many Species, a poem by James Harvey with pictures of fishes, birds and bees by Elfreda Harvey. Many Species comes as a mostly prior assembled hanging mobile with a simple drop mechanism requiring only a wire coat hanger to complete the construction, and is accompanied by an illustrative poem. Available to buy now for £6 including postage via PayPal.