Vents: July 2011

Openned Press Launch - Sean Bonney's 'The Commons' - 21st September

Openned Book Launch: Sean Bonney - the commons

The book will be launched 7:30 p.m, Wednesday 21st September
at
Carnivale, 2 White Church Ln. London E1 7QR

further details to follow at www.openned.com

Hi Zero #6 - Better Than Language Launch, Brighton - 8th August

Hi Zero 6 - Which Will Be The Brighton Launch of Better Than
Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries, ed. Chris Goode,
and featuring poets FROM the book, including but not limited to:
Francesca Lisette, Josh Stanley, Linus Slug, Tomas Weber, Jonny Liron,
Nat Raha, Sarah Kelly et. al. Note too that Hi Zero magazine 6 will be
OUT as well, featuring pomes + potentially even an editorial.

Monday, August 8th
The Hope, Queen's Rd.,
Brighton

Doors 7:30, £4 for all

The book will be on sale to buy. You will not.

(don't forget that the London launch leg takes place tomorrow (28th July))

anything anymore anywhere - 23th July, Edinburgh

anything anymore anywhere presents new poetry:

Richard Barrett + Stephen Emmerson + Gareth Durasow + Julias' Daughters (music)

Saturday 23rd July
18:30 - 21:30
Fifth Floor Seminar Room, City Art Centre, Market Street, Edinburgh

Pugilistica - a literary celebration of boxing, 28th July

Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing
Thursday July 28th, 7pm
Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
entrance free

Launching SJ Fowler’s “Fights” cycles I-XV (Veer books)

Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair Of History Of Art at Birkbeck college presents ‘Stilling the Punch’ a talk & presentation on boxing imagery

Kasia Boddy, author of Boxing:a Cultural History & Senior lecturer at UCL presents ‘Save the Public’s Soul by Punching Its Face’: Modernist Poetry and Pugilism

Tim Atkins celebrates the legendary heavyweight bout between Jack Johnson v. Arthur Cravan in the Monumental bullring, Barcelona, April 1916

Michael Zand reads “The Klitova-Klinchko Kuntador”

Patrick Coyle reads ‘The first painting i ever sold was of Muhammad Ali’.

Better Than Language Launch (London) - 28th July

Edited by Chris Goode, Better Than Language brings together the work of thirteen young poets engaging with the broadest conceivable range of late modernist modes and strategies. Sometimes difficult but always enticing, the restlessly smart poems collected here offer a wide-open invitation to adventurous readers.

The poets represented are:
SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

Paperback 234x156mm: 253pp
Publication date: 25 July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563706-1-7

Launch events:

Thursday 28th July:
Stoke Newington International Airport
London N16 7NJ
7.30pm
£5, or free entry with book purchase (£10 on the night)

Brighton Leg - Monday 8th August - Hi Zero - details to follow
http://hizeroreadings.tumblr.com/

Paul Buck
Nat Raha
Nic Scott

The Lamb (upstairs room), 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1
7.30pm (prompt)
Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Vents

Openned Press Launch - Sean Bonney's 'The Commons' - 21st September

Hi Zero #6 - Better Than Language Launch, Brighton - 8th August

anything anymore anywhere - 23th July, Edinburgh

Pugilistica - a literary celebration of boxing, 28th July

Better Than Language Launch (London) - 28th July

Xing The Line - 27th July

Knives, Forks & Spoons Launch - 16th July, Liverpool

The Other Room - 20th July, Manchester

The Blue Bus - 12th July