Xing the Line - Tomorrow

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 5th December

ALLEN FISHER
ROB HOLLOWAY


The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
7.30pm
£5/£3

Polyply > 22 Ground Cover - 7th Dec

POLYply > 22 - Ground Cover
Friday 7 December

• Daniela Cascella
• Rod Mengham + Mark Atkins
• Post-Works
• Kit Poulson

The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG.
7pm
Free entry.

Materials Launch - 30th Nov, Cambridge

MATERIALS Launch

Poetry + Film from
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LISA JESCHKE
DAVID GRUNDY
JEREMY HARDINGHAM

STAFF

+ This is the launch for ‘MATERIALS’, a new magazine of poetry, prose, pictures & polemix. The first issue of ‘MATERIALS’ features material by Danny Hayward, Mattin, Lisa Jeschke, David Grundy, Staff, Jeremy Hardingham, George Osborne, David Stent, Patrick Farmer, Lucy Beynon, et al, & it features A FREE CD. At the launch there will be readings from Lisa Jeschke, David Grundy & Jeremy Hardingham, and a film from Staff. Copies of the magazine will be available.

DATE: Friday 30th November, 8.00pm.

LOCATION: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TA.

http://material-s.tumblr.com/

Alba #3 Launch - Friday 30th Nov

ALBA #3 Launch
Friday 30th November

Please come along to Birkbeck Room 632 to enjoy an evening of poetry with:

Tim Atkins
Albert Pellicer
Elizabeth Guthrie
Tom Slingsby
Silvia Terrón

There will be wine and chocs!

Room 632, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX
7pm

Intercapillary Places - Dec 13th

Nina Power & Redell Olsen

Beside an electric train, a tray of coal and Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' in the winter pavilion, join us at Parasol Unit for Intercapillary Places

Programme

Nina Power: 

A talk on the philosophy and control of public space

Redell Olsen:

London launch of 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (Subpress, 2012)

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW

Thurs 13th Dec

Drinks from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.00pm

Arrive early to view the retrospective of work by Jannis Kounellis as well as Shezad Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' in the winter pavilion

Tickets: £5/£4 conc

Free wine 

Biographical Notes

Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and is the author of 'One-Dimensional Woman' (Zer0 Books, 2009).

Redell Olsen's recent projects include films and texts for performance: ‘Bucolic Picnic (or, Toile de Jouy Camouflage)’ (2009), ‘Newe Booke of Copies’ (2009-10), 'SPRIGS and Spots' (2011-12) and the site-specific collaboration for film and performance "Lost Pool" (2010). Her previous publications include 'Book of the Fur' (rem press, 2000) and 'Secure Portable Space' (Reality Street, 2004). 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (2012) is just out from Subpress. She is a Reader in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. For more see: http://redellolsen.co.uk/wordpress/

Jannis Kounellis was part of the Arte Povera movement in Italy that emerged during the 1960s. On show at Parasol Unit will be works such as Untitled (Carboniera), 1967; Untitled (steel plate and braid),1969, on loan from Centre George Pompidou, Musée national d’art; Metamorphosis, 1984, and Untitled, 1977, an electric train moving on steel plates installed around one of the pillars of the gallery.

Tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal - 

To book your ticket please contact Lucy Britton on lucy@parasol-unit.org / 020 7490 7373 ext. 20

Please book ahead as spaces in the gallery can fill up

To keep up to date on Places events follow @intercapillary 

More information on the Jannis Kounellis exhibition http://www.parasol-unit.org/jannis-kounellis

Intercapillary Places: https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/

The Other Room - 5th Dec, Manchester

The Blue Bus - 20th Nov

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 20th November

Allen Fisher & Tim Allen

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5/£3
7.30pm sharp

Small Publishers Fair - Readings - Saturday 17th Nov

Small Publishers Fair 2012
16th & 17th November 2012
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (11am to 7pm)

Readings Taking Place on Saturday 17th Nov:

2.00 Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway: Jennie Cole, Rachel Deakin, Annie Runkel, Juliet Troy, Emma Wootton & tba
3.00 Road Books: Judy Kravis launches ‘Flashes & Floaters’
3.30 seekers of lice & VerySmallKitchen launch: ‘Theatre of Objects’: Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, and tba
4.00 West House Books & Reality Street Editions: Geraldine Monk, Johan de Wit, Giles Goodland, Sean Pemberton & Robert Sheppard.
5.00 Equus Press:  Louis Armand & David Vichnar
5.30 Veer Books: Peter Larkin, Carol Watts, Doug Jones, William Rowe, Holly Pester, and Danny Hayward 

Feelings - Tommorrow (15th Nov)

FEELINGS
Thursday 15th November

An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poems:
Justin Katko
Elizabeth Guthrie
Edmund Hardy
Jon Melling

Film TBA

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London N16 7XB
8pm
£3

Department in Manchester - 27th Nov

 

Poetry /// from Department Press 

Please join Department Press at Kraak, Manchester on Tuesday 27 November from 7.30 pm to hear readings from Sarah Crewe, Andy Spragg, Gareth Twose and Rhys Trimble. 

Entry is free. 

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Sarah Crewe has recently co-edited Catechism: Poems For Pussy Riot. Her chapbook Aqua Rosa was released by erbacce earlier this year. She has a forthcoming chapbook, flick invicta, with Oystercatcher in 2013. She co-edits M58, an ezine for visual poetry, with Andrew Taylor. She has had work in Department, Otoliths, the Red Ceilings blog, erbacce and has work forthcoming in Tears In The Fence.  

Andrew Spragg is a poet, performer and critic. His books include The Fleetingest (Red Ceiling Press), Notes for Fatty Cakes (Anything Anymore Anywhere) and cut out (Department Press). He edits Infinite Editions, a blog that publishes free poetry postcards for download and distribution. 

Gareth Twose is currently organiser of Writers' Forum North.  Co-organiser of recent Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event.  Has recently had poems published in Sunfish, Depart, Assent, Litter web zine and 3 am (forthcoming).  Formerly a newspaper journalist. 

Rhys Trimble: welsh poet of degrees & cutter & perforce performer DEARHWCH, PRY-LLWYD BLAIDD-BLOEDDIWR rascal...Bilingual poet based in Bethesda, North Wales . Improvisor interested in medieval welsh DEAD language & bilingual poetry, music/poetry, collaborations, digital-art and avant POST garde writing practices. Editor of Ctrl+Alt+Del http://cad.theabsurd.co.uk Ezine and studying for a ‘psychomythogeographical’ PhD in creative writing. Stick banger, SHOUTYMAN. 

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http://departmentzine.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/events/472928599418299/

http://www.kraak.co/home/

HI ZERO - Mon 29th Oct, Brighton

Cinnamon Buns launch night - "Better Weird than Dead" - 4th Nov

 SUNDAY 4th NOVEMBER
BETTER WEIRD THAN DEAD

Cinnamon Buns Fanzine is a queer trans-faggy body positive zine and we love food, smoking hot babes, good music and dancing.

LIVE BANDS:
Halo Halo

Faggot
Left Leg

POETRY!!
Linus Slug
Nat Raha
E.A.V.E Ffrench

ARTWORK:
Cinnamon Buns Fanzine
Sina Sparrow

DJs:
DJ Zomboy & DJ Supercasio (Bad Reputation)
The Choo Choo Trains

Free Cinnamon Buns for the 50 first people, goodie bags, all the Cinnamon Buns Fanzine swag you can imagine and other surprises!!

Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper St, London N1 1RU
7.00pm - 1.00am
£4

Advanced tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187869
http://cinnamonbunsfanzine.tumblr.com/

Cooke, Melville, Rowe, Birkbeck - 19th Oct

nick-e melville teleports from edinburgh to present an evening of fencing and duende with jennifer cooke and william rowe.
 
Friday 19th Oct
538 Birkbeck main building
7.30pm

donations for the poets are warmly encouraged.
and there will also be wine.

Feelings - Thursday 18th Oct

FEELINGS
An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poems:
Sean Bonney
Steve Willey
Rachael Allen
Sophie Robinson

Film:
Timothy Smith's 'Le Weekend'
Benjamin Sebastian

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Vogue Fabrics 66 Stoke Newington Road,  London N16 7XB
8pm
£3

XING THE LINE - Tonight!

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 17th October


Antony John
Andy Spragg
Juha Virtanen

The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
7.30pm
£5/£3

Poetry for Sonic Youth - 26th October

Poetry for Sonic Youth
Friday 26th October

Poems inspired by/featuring/giving the nod to Sonic Youth. Oversized stripey jumpers, doe eyed, swaying movements all welcome. General lo-fi vibes abound. Bring your Kotton Krown.

Poets include:

* Amy Key
* Nat Raha
* Godkin Mor
* Becky Cremin
* Chrissy Williams
* Tim Wells
* Chris McCabe
* Swithun Cooper
* Saradha Soobrayen
* Andra Simon
* Roddy Lumsden
* Francesca Lisette
* Michael Zand
* Marcus Slease
* Pascal O'Loughlin
* Sarah Crewe

plus others to be confirmed. 

Mascara Bar
7.30pm

72 Stamford Hill, London N16 6XS

The Blue Bus - Tuesday 16th Oct

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 16th October

Lee Harwood & Maurice Scully

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5/£3
7.30pm sharp

POLYply >21 - Thurs 11th Oct

Intercapillary Spaces - 25th October

An evening of politics, poetry & the fictions of modern love
Danny Hayward, Jennifer Cooke, Reina van der Wiel and Felicity Allen

7.00pm, Thurs 25th Oct
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Arrive early to view the exhibition of sculptures by Bharti Kher
Tickets: £5/£4 conc

Programme

Danny Hayward:

‘How to be Dominated, or, Night Thoughts on Poetry and World History’

The talk will attempt to specify a category of writing that wishes not only to contest the ownership of the category of the popular, but which wants actively to ownthat category. In its first parts it will offer a polemical history of its central category for the previous two centuries of capitalist development, from Schiller via Wordsworth to Brecht, before proceeding to a more speculative discussion of contemporary writing that wishes to seize (and not merely to gain) popularity from the interests for whom popularity is a synonym of turnover. Setting itself in equal opposition to Adorno's view of "high" and "low" culture as two torn halves that will not be added together, and the profitable therapeutics of anything goes, the talk will argue that a contemporary communist popular culture can only function as a comedy of domination instated at the level of syntax, prosody, and narrative. Broadly speaking, the talk will claim that the poetic writing, if it wishes to maintain some relation to historical development, must learn how to work with its own domination.
In conclusion, and with a view less towards the operationalisation of the category than towards its collectivisation, the talk will use the category of a comedy of domination to guide some readings of what it takes to be failed and successful poems.
‘Love is.... very fictional’

Jennifer Cooke, Reina van der Wiel and Felicity Allen
To mark the forthcoming book edited by Jennifer Cooke, Scenes of Intimacy (Continuum, 2013), Cooke will be joined by two contributors to the volume to discuss how love is.... very fictional. Felicity Allen will talk of how 19th century love shapes present desires, then Jennifer Cooke will discuss with Reina van der Wiel new theories of relationality and how they try to by-pass some of the problems of modern love.

Biographical Notes

Felicity Allen is an artist, writer and educator. Her current work includes a dialogic portraits series in prose and watercolour. As guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute (2011-2012) she reviewed Nahnou-Together, a social art project with artists and young people from Amman, Damascus and London between 2004 and 2010. Two books came out in 2011: Education(MIT/Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art) and Your Sketchbook Your Self (Tate). She has been involved in gallery education for the last two decades, most recently leading the education department at Tate Britain (2003-10). www.felicityallen.co.uk

Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (Palgrave, 2009) and has published articles on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary poetics, and Hélène Cixous. She is currently writing a monograph about intimacy, affect and innovative writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is editor of a special issue of Textual Practice entitled Challenging Intimacies: Legacies of Psychoanalysis (2013).
Danny Hayward is a poet and polemicist based in London. His Two Essays: Best and Worst in Poetry / Perfect Capitalism was published by Veer Books in 2012. His poetry is published inVierSomes 000, also from Veer in 2012.

Reina van der Wiel is a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of the forthcoming Twentieth-Century Literature and Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson (Palgrave, 2014), and has also published on Jeanette Winterson and Frida Kahlo. Her current research focuses on intimacy, solitude, and a ‘poethics’ of care in twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Booking

Booking is advised. Tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone or email. To book your ticket please contact Charlotte Hale on charlotte@parasol-unit.org / 020 7490 7373 ext. 20.

Intercapillary Places website:

https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/

Alloa Poetry Jamboree

2-4 November: Tom Leonard Lila Matsumoto Peter Manson Drew Milne Bill Herbert Andrew Duncan Jim Ferguson Donny O'Rourke Kathleen Jamie Dorothy Alexander nick-e melville David Kinloch Samantha Walton Frank Kuppner Gerry Loose Jennifer Williams Brochure!

Xing The Line - 27th September

XING THE LINE
Thursday 27th September

Emma Bennett + matt martin + Richard Price

The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
7.30pm
£5/£3

Hi Zero #15 - 25th Sept, Brighton

Hi Zero #15, Season 2* Opener, a night of contemporary poetry readings, featuring:

NICK POTAMITIS
Author: The Book of Night Terrors (Salt), and JUBILATE AJAX forthcoming imminently from MOUNTAIN PRESS

STEPHEN MOONEY
Author: DCLP (District and Central Line Project) (Veer), Shuddered, with Aodán McCardle & Piers Hugill (Veer)

JUSTIN KATKO
Author: The Death of Pringle (Veer/Film Forum), Finite Love (w/The Other Brother) (Critical Documents/Bad), Superior City Song (Crit. Dox), and RHYME AGAINST THE INTERNET (Crater)

Wednesday, 26th September upstairs at The Hope, Queen’s Road, BRIGHTON.
Doors 7:30pm.
£4 for all


*May actually be Season 3. Definitely not a repeat.

Manchester Poets for Pussy Rio - 17th Sept

The Blue Bus - Reality Street Launch - 11th September

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 11th September

Maggie O’Sullivan + Paul Brown launch their new Reality Street publications

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ
£5/£3
7.30pm sharp

Veer Books / Crater Press Launch - Tonight!

Veer Books / Crater Press Launch

Richard Parker, Robert Hampson, Jeff Hilson launching and reading from new work from Veer and Crater Press.

Birkbeck College, Room 539, Malet Street Building, London
7.30pm Start.
Free

Poetry Book Fair & if p then q reading - Saturday 8th September

Followed by the if p then q book launch at The Betsey Trotwood

Poets for Pussy Riot - Tomorrow

Poets for Pussy Riot

Wednesday August 29th 2012 – 7pm until late – Free entrance
at the Rich mix arts centre, main space venue,
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA 020 7613 7498

With the news that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich of the Russian punk collective, Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison for a wholly necessary and valid political protest, contemporary poets in London will come together in a unique evening of readings, featuring original poetry and text, as well as the words of Pussy Riot themselves. This event is an act of solidarity through the medium of poetry – a celebration of the courage and spirit of fellow writers of this generation, writing for real political change in a country that needs it.

The event will feature over 30 poets, including Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Harry Burke, Becky Cremin, Nia Davies, Amy Evans, Ollie Evans, Irum Fazal, SJ Fowler, Charlotte Geater, Jeff Hilson, Kirsty Irving, Keith Jebb, Antony John, Marek Kazmierski, Robert Kiely, Francesca Lisette, Chris McCabe, Mendoza, Reza Mohammadi, Sandeep Parmar, Claire Potter, Nat Raha, Will Rowe, Connie Scozzaro, Antonia Seroff, Andy Spragg, Jon Stone, Philip Terry, Jack Underwood, MJ Weller, James Wilkes, Jenny Wong and Michael Zand.

Index on Censorship will also have a presence at the event. You can follow their work regarding the Pussy Riot case here.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/tag/pussy-riot/ / http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/tag/pussy-riot/

Modern Poetry in Translation have also provided remarkable translations of the testimonials of the three women who have been sentenced, and the punk prayer song that was performed in Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow in February, completely free, thanks to the diligence and endeavour of MPT editor, Sasha Dugdale.
http://www.mptmagazine.com/article/pussy-riot-trial-in-moscow-30/
http://www.mptmagazine.com/feature/pussy-riot-testimonies-59/
http://www.mptmagazine.com/poem/virgin-mary-mother-of-god-591/

Feelings - 16th August

FEELINGS: POETRY / FILM / SAD DISCO
Thursday 16th August 2012
8pm to midnight

Featuring:
Francesca Lisette
Johanna Linsley
David Ashford
The Everyday Cosmonaut
DJ Jonathan Kemp
**More TBC**

VOGUE FABRICS, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, N16
£3

Scree - Saturday 4th August, Edinburgh

The Other Room - 14th August

Xing The Line - 15th August

Xing the Line
Wednesday 15th August

Tim Atkins
Steven Fowler
Fabian Macpherson

7.30pm
£5/£3
The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE

Viersomes Launch - 1st August

Veer Books: Viersomes 0 & 1 Launch
1st August

Veer Books will launch a new series of variously named publications featuring work by younger innovative writers, four at a time, called 'viersomes'. The first two in this series feature work by:

Edmund Hardy
Danny Hayward
Mendoza
Sam Solomon

&

Becky Cremin
Amy Evans
Frances Kruk
Nat Raha

8pm at The Poetry Library, 5th Floor Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Free
Booking suggested as space is limited - to book a place email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

Intercapillary Places - July 26th

Come to an evening of space time, where calculation and history collide. Mathematician John Armstrong will speak on special relativity a a theory of the geometry of space time, then the historian and poet John Seed will read from his poetry which investigates labour and the archive.

Place: Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Date: Thurs 26th July
Time: Arrive 6.30pm for drinks, event begins at 7pm
Tickets: £5/£5 conc - tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal - http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=22

The event also forms part of the 'Islington Exhibits' festival - http://www.islingtonexhibits.com/home

About the Speakers:

John Armstrong is a mathematician and software architect. He currently lectures at King's College, London on financial mathematics, C ++ and Matlab, while researching differential geometry.

John Seed is an honorary research fellow at Roehampton. His book on 'Dissenting Histories' was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2008. His Collected Poems and also two volumes of archive poetry drawn from Henry Mayhew, That Barrikins, are published by Shearsman.

More information at Intercapillary Places

KFS Book Launch - 17th July, Birmingham

Knives, Forks and Spoons Press Launch
Tuesday 17th July

Bobby Parker, Meredith Andrea, and Rhys Trimble

7pm
The Kitchen Garden Bar & Cafe
17 York Road, King's Heath, Birmingham B14 7SA

Coldharbour Gallery Reading - Tomorrow

SAT 14 JULY
POETRY READING

Holly Pester, Jeff Hilson, Tim Atkins

at Coldharbour Gallery, 26 - 34 Southwell Road, London SE5
6pm

There will also be film, music, art stuff going on through the afternoon and evening.

Memorial reading for James Harvey - 19th July

Veer Books / Xing the Line / Writers Forum Workshop (New Series) and The Blue Bus have come together to celebrate the life and poetry of James Harvey, who died last month. 

This memorial reading will take place at Birkbeck College on Thursday 19^th July, from 18.00-21.00 at The Keynes Library, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.

Readers/performers will include Carol Watts, Will Rowe, James Wilkes, matt martin, Jeff Hilson, Holly Pester, Michael Zand, Stephen Emmerson, Juliet Troy, John Gibbens, Keith Jebb, David Miller, Antony John, Edward Carey, Peter Philpott, S J Fowler, Elizabeth Guthrie, and The Children (Armorel Weston and John Gibbens).

Please note that this is a free event.

Xing the Line - 18th July

Wednesday 18th July
XING THE LINE

Frances Presley & Gavin Selerie

The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1
7.30pm, £5/£3.

Feelings - 12th July

FEELINGS: POETRY / FILM / SAD DISCO
12th July 2012
7.30 to midnight

VOGUE FABRICS, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, N16
£3

POETRY
Jennifer Cooke (*not suitable for domestic sublimation BOOK LAUNCH)
Alan Hay
Nat Raha
Connie Scozzaro
Joe Luna

FILM Warren Garland
The Everyday Cosmonaut

SAD DISCO
DJ John Lee Bird

Intercapillary at the Parasol Unit - 26th July

if p than q reading - 8th Sept, London

The Other Room, Leeds 19th July

Polyply 20 - Tonight

Sussex Poetry Festival - 8th & 9th June, Brighton

3rd Annual Sussex Poetry Festival
Friday 8th & Saturday 9th June

Schedule:

Friday:

17:00 - Music TBA
18:00 - Lee Harwood and Elizabeth Guthrie
20:00 - Niels Frank and Reem Kubba
22:00 - Richard Owens, Jow Walton and Verity Spott

Saturday:

14:00 - Drew Milne and Laura Kilbride
16:00 - Sam Solomon and Peter Middleton
18:30 - Dan Spicer, Julie Carr and Holly Pester
21:00 - Ralh Hawkins and Linh Dinh
10:30 - Music: West Hill Blast Quartet

Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, Brighton BN1 9UF (opposite the train station)Full festival ticket: £20 (£15 concession)
Individual readings: £6 (£4 concession)

Feelings - 14th June

FEELINGS
film / poetry / sad disco
14th June 2012

POETRY
Samuel Solomon (US)
Linus Slug (UK)
Frances Kruk (Canada)
Sophie Robinson (UK)
Luke Roberts (UK)

FILM
Abigail Child (USA)
Andrew Kerton (UK)

SAD DISCO
DJ Dr. Kemp (10pm to 12pm)

Vogue Fabrics

66 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XB
7:00pm to Midnight
£3

The Blue Bus - 19th June

The Blue Bus
Tuesday 19^th June

D S Marriott + Sarah Kelly + Robert Sheppard

The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. 
Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
7.30pm Sharp

The Other Room, Manchester - 12th June

30th May - Cambridge

The Paper Nautilus III Launch - 7th June

To celebrate the launch of Issue #3
of THE PAPER NAUTILUS MAGAZINE
and to pass the time:

CAITLIN DOHERTY
FRANCES KRUK
FRANCESCA LISETTE
MARIANNE MORRIS
NAT RAHA
CONNIE SCOZZARO

will read from the mags, their work and each other’s

on Thursday 7th June
from 7pm
Clore 101, Clore Management Building, Torrington Squre, Birkbeck College London

 

http://thepaper0ilus.wordpress.com/
www.thepapernautilus.co.uk

Damn The Caesars Launch - Cambridge, 2nd June

Saturday 2nd June, 2-7 pm 

Damn The Caesars: Crisis Inquiry launch

Featuring performances from:
Sean Bonney
Ryan Dobran
Danny Hayward
Rosa van Hensbergen
Owen Holland
Laura Kilbride
Frances Kruk
Joe Luna
Marianne Morris
Richard Owens
Reitha Pattison
Nat Raha
Luke Roberts

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio | Faculty of English | West Road | Cambridge

Free Entry | All welcome | possibly both Skeletor and Cake

www.damnthecaesars.org | www.mountain-press.co.uk

McCaffery, cheek, Mac Cormack at Birkbeck, 6th June

Wednesday 06 June 2012

Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack

Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
7:30-9:00pm - all welcome

Poetry & Revolution Conference - Readings - 25th & 26th May

Poetry & Revolution Conference Readings

Friday 25th May
XING THE LINE

Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis.


The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1
7.30pm, £5/£5.


Saturday 26th May
VLAK Launch: Special issue on Occupations
Readers tbc.
7-8pm at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, Kings Cross.

POLYPLY
Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak,
8-10.30pm at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, Kings Cross.

Voiceworks 2012 Performance - 23rd May

The culmination of the Voiceworks 2012 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at 17.30.

The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support

Participants:
Group 1: DANIEL BARROW
 & PATRICK BRENNAN & ROSEMARY CLIFFORD
Group 2: IRUM FAZAL & HELGI INGVARSSON & MATTHEW MCGUIGAN & CLAIRE CANDY
Group 3: NELL STEVENS & BENJAMIN GRAVES & ANTHONY BIRNIE
Group 4: OLLIE EVANS & MARTA LOZANO MOLANO & MEGAN QUICK & ADAM GILBERT
Group 5: STEVEN FOWLER & THEODOROS CHATZIDIS & CLARE GHIGO
Group 6: BECKY CREMIN & MARK SIMPSON & GINA WALTER
Group 7: EDMUND HARDY & LOUIS CHIAPPETTA & OSKAR PALMBLAD
.
The performance is free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).


http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/voiceworks-29988

A recording of the Voiceworks 2012 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.

This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC.

Hi Zero #14 - Wed 23rd May, Brighton

Hi Zero Presents, for the 14th time and the last time this year until SEPTEMBER, readings of contemporary poetry by:

NAT RAHA

*and*

DAVID BUUCK


*and*

KAIA SAND


All upstairs at The Hope, Queens Road, Brighton, on Wednesday 23rd May, doors at 7:30 for an 8:00pm start, go on forever, we'll be there. See you there, bring everyone.

£4 for all.

Poetry / Music / Performance / Film - 12-13th May, Cambridge

TWO DAYS of POETRY, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE and FILM in the JUDITH E WILSON DRAMA STUDIO:

DAY ONE
(Friday 11th May, 19:30hrs)
MUSIC from ADAM BOHMAN and LAWRENCE DUNN
POETRY from SOPHIE ROBINSON and NAT RAHA and FRANCESCA LISETTE

DAY TWO
(Saturday 12th May, 19:30hrs)
MUSIC from DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA
PERFORMANCE from LISA JESCHKE & LUCY BEYNON
FILM from IAN HEAMES, JUSTIN KATKO, OLLIE EVANS / JEREMY HARDINGHAM, LUCIA YANDOLI

Curated by DAVID GRUNDY

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

Polyply 19 - 10th May

Xing the Line - TONIGHT

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 2nd May

John Havelda & Philip Terry

7.30pm
£5/£3
The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE

Parry Wing #4 - 20th April (Brighton)

Friday 20th April
Iodine presents PW4.

POETRY
Sean Bonney.
Chris Buckley.
Timothy Thornton.

MUSIC
Dolly Dollycore.
Kev Nickells.

The Farm Tavern,
Farm Road, Hove.
7pm
To see this it costs £4.

Surrey Poetry Festival - 19th May, Guildford

The Other Room - 19th April, Manchester

Now, Microtheatres - Tomorrow (Hackney)

NOW, MICROTHEATRES
Sat, 14 April, 8pm
//
Performances by
//
David Berridge
Ellie Bradford
Irum Fazal
Jonny Liron
Kieran Kier Brau
Lisa Jeschke
Lucy Beynon
Mischa Twitchin
Ollie Evans
Stefan Riebel
//
Five Years
Unit 66 6th Floor
Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN

Hi Zero #13 - 25th April, Brighton

Hi Zero Presents
Number 13 in the current series, featuring readings from:

ANDREA BRADY

and

JEFFERSON TOAL

and

TOMAS WEBER

Doors 7:30 for an 8:00 start, round abouts. £4 for all.

XING THE LINE - 20th April

XING THE LINE
FRIDAY 20th April

Giles Goodland
Jessica Pujol
Simon Perril

7.30pm
The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
£5/£3

The Blue Bus - 17th April

The Blue Bus is pleased to present a poetry event featuring
Melissa Buckheit, Eléna Rivera, Scott Thurston,

Tuesday 17th April,
7.30pm (sharp)
The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1.
Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).

A Summit of Joyful Old Savages - 18th April

A SUMMIT OF JOYFUL OLD SAVAGES: A WORLD-PREMIERE READING

ANSELM HOLLO - TOM RAWORTH - GUNNAR HARDING - ANDREI CODRESCU

Wednesday 18th April 2012 - Doors at 7.30
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
+44 (0)20 7833 3644 - Tickets - £8 in advance at www.thehorsehospital.com

Xing The Line - 28th March

Xing The Line
Wednesday 28th March

Alan Bernheimer & Ralph Hawkins

7pm (slightly earlier than normal)
£5/3
The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE

The Dismantled Cabaret - 17th March

You are Invited to attend

The Dismantled Cabaret

an evening of poetry, music and performance

that will be taking place at...

]performance s p a c e [
6 Hamlet Industrial Estate
White Post Lane
London
E9 5EN

Overground: Hackney Wick
Buses:26,30,276,388,488

on Saturday, 17th of March, 2012

commencing at 8pm, FREE ENTRY


Benjamin Sebastian (performance)
Iris Garrelfs (laptop voice manipulations)
Xiipal Lapiix (performance)
Sophie Robinson (poetry)
Jessica Hirst (performance)

Nat Raha (poetry)
George Mackenzie (electronica)
Elizabeth Guthrie (poetry)
Zac Gvi (wind instruments & musique concrète)

& others & others & others & others & others
will be involved in a large group performance

Runnymede International Literary Festival - March 17

Runnymede International Literary Festival: March 17: 'Runnymede in London'

MARCH 17:  Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG

12.00: readings and performances by current students from the RHUL MA in Poetic Practice.

2.15: John Kinsella and Amy Evans

3.30: Luke Roberts and Justin Katko

5.00: Jennifer Cooke and Tony Lopez

All events FREE

During the readings there will be a showing of a series of films, including ‘London’s Olympic waterscape’ and work by Kreider & O’Leary.

Further details on the Royal Holloway website

Denise Riley reading in Sheffield - 15th March

Poetry Reading - Denise Riley
 
Where: Tapestry Room, Firth Hall, Western Bank, Sheffield
 
When:
 
7pm Thursday 15th March 2012
 
Denise Riley (born 1948, Carlisle) is an English poet and philosopher
who began to be published in the 1970s. Her poetry is remarkable for
its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her
critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and
philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to
Feminism and Contemporary Philosophy. She was, until recently,
Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East
Anglia and is currently A. D. White Professor at Cornell University.
She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has
held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of
London.
 
More info: A.Piette@sheffield.ac.uk

Hi! Zero #Twelve - 14th March, Brighton

Hi Zero TWELVE, with Poetry Readings From:

JOSH STANLEY

TIMOTHY THORNTON

VERITY SPOTT

All upstairs at The Hope, on Queen's Road, Brighton; doors open at 7:30, £4 will purchase entry. Music from a stereo. More.

WOMEN POETS AGAINST DSK - 9th March, Cambridge

On Friday night the CAMBRIDGE UNION will play host to celebrity sex abuser and internationally renowned MISOGYNIST: Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

We will march on this event and protest at the Union Society's collusion with Strauss-Kahn, a man who is in no way deserving of t...he uncritical platform he has been given to speak upon that night.

Following the protest you are invited to attend an event that defies DSK's attempt to undermine and silence the voices of women who protest at the gross ABUSE OF POWER by men such as he.

A group of RADICAL FEMINIST POETS including:

***Marianne Morris***

***Nat Raha***

***Laura Kilbride***

***Francesca Lisette***

&

*** Reitha Pattison***

will read their work at 9pm in solidarity with all those who have suffered as a result of the actions of this man and all those who have been forced to experience misogynist violence and abuse.

There will be a performed reading of a new work by THE PERFUME RECORDIST (contributed by Lisa Robertson) as well as poems read in tribute to Stacy Doris.

All self-identifying women in the audience will be given the opportunity to read or perform as part of this event, should they wish to take part.

The event will also act as a fundraiser for Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre. Reading venue TBA.

Information on the protest event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/353792344651397/

POLYply #17: Erosion - Thursday 8th March

POLYply > 17: EROSION

Brian Catling
Ian Heames
Dominic Lash

Thursday 8 March, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG

Free entry

A reading by and presentations on the work of John James - Friday 9 March

A reading by and presentations on the work of JOHN JAMES

Friday 9 March 2012

6.00-7.15pm
Short talks by ROD MENGHAM – JOHN HALL – SIMON PERRIL
presentation of the Salt Companion to John James

7.30-8.30pm
Readings
SIMON PERRIL, JOHN JAMES reading from his new IN ROMSEY TOWN (Equipage) and CLOUD BREAKING SUN (Oystercatcher). Both available on the night.

Keynes Library, all welcome
43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link

Hardy Tree Gallery - 24th February

Hi Zero is 1 ! Wed 29th Feb, Brighton

Poems & Music - Cambridge, Friday 24th Feb

•  JUSTIN KATKO
• OUT TO LUNCH
• LASH + STENT
• DRACHMAE LUCKY STRENGTH

+ There will be readings from Justin Katko and Out To Lunch (Ben Watson), as well as music from the duo of Dominic Lash & David Stent (double bass + guitar) and the electronic trio Drachmae Lucky Strength. Books & CDs will be available.

 

Friday 24 February, 7.30pm. Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

XING THE LINE - 15th Feb

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 15th February

ALAN HALSEY
BECKY CREMIN

The Apple Tree (upstairs), 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1X 0AE
Admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)

Shearsman - 15th February

The next event in Shearsman's 2012 Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 15 February at 7:30 pm, and features Tim Allen and Jeremy Reed.

Details of the books that will be officially launched on the evening:

http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2011/reedBV.html

http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2012/allenTVT.html

The venue is:

Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines: 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.

Further details here of the venue:

http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html

Please put these other dates in your diaries -- readers still have to be confirmed for the 2012 dates.

2012 dates:
(all Tuesdays, same venue)

6 March Helen Moore & Sandeep Parmar
17 April readers tbc
8 May tbc
16 October tbc
20 November tbc

POLYPly - 9th February

Lyric & Polis - 17th-18th February, Falmouth

Hi Zero - 31st January, Brighton

Xing The Line - 18th January

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 18th January, 7.30pm

Simon Smith & David Herd perform ROTE with Sam Bailey, Liran Donin & Mark Holub on acoustic guitar, keyboard & double bass

plus readings from Elizabeth Guthrie and Michael Zand


The Apple Tree (upstairs), 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1X 0AE
Admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)

POLYply > 15: COLOUR

POLYply > 15: COLOUR

Sam Dowd
Robert Hampson
Mark Leahy
Nisha Ramayya
Dawn Scarfe

Thursday 12 January, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG

Free entry