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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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
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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