Vents

Hi Zero - 31st January, Brighton

2012-01-18T04:56:00.000-08:00

Xing The Line - 18th January

2012-01-15T06:02:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-04T05:38:00.000-08:00

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

Mulling the Line - 21st Dec

2011-12-08T07:23:00.000-08:00

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 21st December

Lucy Harvest Clarke + Martin Corless-Smith

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

Veer Books Launch - 7th Dec

2011-12-01T03:59:00.000-08:00

Veer Launch
Friday 09 December 2011

Demosthenes Agrafiotis, James Cummins, & Justin Katko

Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
7pm, entrance free, all welcome

PPP - 6th December

2011-12-01T03:57:00.000-08:00

Greenwich - 23rd November

2011-11-17T08:06:00.000-08:00

POLYply > 14 - 10th November

2011-11-04T07:23:00.001-07:00

Thornton, Jarvis & Weber - Cambridge - Friday 4th November

2011-11-02T06:09:00.000-07:00

press free press @ curzon soho - 7th Nov

2011-10-27T05:25:00.000-07:00

Second of monthly nights in Curzon Soho bar:
JOHANNA LINSLEY with SOPHIE ROBINSON

Monday 07/11/2011
from 6.30pm

This month's question:

What could you contribute to the space mission?
All replies considered, no guarantees are made.

(Bring a reply - max 50 words)
See http://pressfreepress.com

Sad Press 2011 London & SE Poetry Festival

2011-10-26T15:03:00.000-07:00

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER
“The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre”
The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, London WC1E 7HX
6pm – Launch of The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (intr. Ken Edwards)
7.30pm – Launch readings murmur by Maggie O’Sullivan and The Conglomorization of Wot by Jennifer Pike Cobbing (Veer)

THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER
“Crossing the Line”
The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 2AE
7.30pm – Holly Pester & Stephen Emmerson

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER
“A Foule Reading”
The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF
7.30pm – Frances Kruk, Mike Wallace-Hadrill, Ed Luker & Caitlín Doherty

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
“Hi Zero!”
The Hope, 11-12 Queen’s Road, Brighton BN1 3WA
8pm – Sean Bonney & Harry Gilonis

WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER
“The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre”
Room 112, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD
7.30pm – Launch reading of David Miller’s Black, Grey and White, Tom White’s My Camp, & Gilbert Adair’s sable smoke (Veer)
&
“POLYproject”
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
6.30pm – Pre-concert discussion
7.30pm – Cut & Splice: Grúndelweiser, with Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts & Manfred Werder

THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER
“The Situation Room”
Unit 12, 7 Fountayne Rd, London N15 4QL
8pm – Launch reading of Timothy Thornton’s Jocund Day (Mountain)

Admissions vary from free to a fiver -- more details below.

Reality Street launches - 5 November, Hastings

2011-10-25T15:26:00.000-07:00

Maggie O'Sullivan & Jennifer Cobbing Pike Launch - 26th Oct

2011-10-23T12:50:00.001-07:00

The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, Wednesday 26th October 2011, 18:00-21:00.

Launch of the ‘Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan’, & launch/reading of Maggie O’Sullivan’s ‘murmur’ and Jennifer Cobbing Pike’s ‘The Conglomorization of Wot’.

The Other Room - 26th Oct, Manchester

2011-10-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

The Foule Readings - 28th October, Cambridge

2011-10-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

THE FOULE READINGS
Friday 28th October

"The second reading in the Foule Reading Series will feature the high-end-almighty contemporary poetry of Frances Kruk, Mike Wallace-Hadrill, Ed Luker and Caitlín Doherty. There'll be free wine, a book table, a Foule publication & a cigarette break in a Japanese garden. It's all free"

7.30pm
The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Xing The Line - 27th Oct

2011-10-15T08:35:00.000-07:00

XING THE LINE
Thursday 27th October

Stephen Emmerson +++ Holly Pester

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

Hi Zero #8 - 31st October, Brighton

2011-10-15T08:33:00.000-07:00

Kinsella, Mayer, Milne - Cambridge - 14th Oct

2011-10-10T14:22:00.001-07:00

Friday, 14 October, 7.30 pm.

Special Poetry Event / Reading:

John Kinsella
Sophie Mayer
Drew Milne

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Free Entry. All welcome.

This event marks the beginning of John Kinsella’s residence as this year’s Judith E Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow.

POLYply #13 - 13th October

2011-10-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

All the Bourgeoisie Know is How to Kill - Unkant Launch - 6th Oct

2011-09-30T04:21:00.000-07:00

The Association of Musical Marxists (AMM) invite you to the launch of two books from Unkant Publishers

Ray Challinor - The Struggle for Hearts and Minds: Essays on the Second World War

Sean Bonney - Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud

Ray Challinor's book was first published on his Bewick imprint in 1995, and is now out of print. It is REQUIRED READING for any anti-war activist since it demonstrates conclusively that the Allied effort 1939-1945 was NOT a war against fascism, but a war for empire and profits. Challinor's account of ruling-class machinations is by turns shocking and hilarious.

Sean Bonney's book retrieves Arthur Rimbaud from the tired beats and decadents who celebrate him (Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Nick Cave, Aidan Dunn, etc.) and reveals that his joys and sorrows revolved around the Commune, that glimpse of post-capitalism achieved by the Parisian working class in 1871 which the French bourgeoisie drowned in blood.

Our strapline for both: "All the bourgeoisie know is how to kill"

Upstairs at The Blue Posts, Rupert Court/Rupert Street, London, W1 (MAP)

7pm Thursday 6th October 2011

all welcome

Poetry, History, Politics and Music no longer struck dumb by bourgeois specialisation!!
Great words and great laughs courtesy the AMM!!

http://www.unkant.com/

Xing the Line - 5th Oct

2011-09-27T04:57:00.000-07:00

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 5th October, 7.30pm

Laurie Duggan + Phil Hall

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

press free press @ curzon soho - 3rd October

2011-09-24T12:40:00.001-07:00

Crossing the Painted - 24th & 25th Sept

2011-09-14T04:47:00.000-07:00

Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September, 3.00 pm
at Whitechapel Art Gallery, Art Book Fair

Readings of new work from poets in a collaboration between Painted, Spoken magazine and the Crossing the Line live poetry series. For two events only, six poets read individually, prefaced and ‘afterworded’ by a rules-based group work. Although representing a vast range of poetry practice the poets all come from modernist traditions with art practice selfconsciousness: hear how their work diverges and overlaps, creating a unique live event. Vahni Capildeo, Giles Goodland, Jeff Hilson, Francesca Lisette, Richard Price and Simon Smith.

Free. Presented at the The Portable Reading Room, the Wild Pansy Press stand. For more information see: www.wildpansypress.com

The Other Room - 26th Sept

2011-09-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

Conceptual Gestures - Vanessa Place - 24th Sept

2011-09-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

A reading by Vanessa Place

The reading forms part of the first 'Conceptual Gestures' event organised by Carol Watts and Edmund Hardy at Birkbeck's Contemporary Poetics Research Centre

24 September · 18:30 - 20:00
32 Tavistock Square, London WC1
Free, Open to all

Intercapillary Places - 15th September

2011-09-13T08:45:00.000-07:00

"you are outside, lost somewhere": Cutler & Fox on September 15th

Amy Cutler - 'L/andedness ends': British Coastlines in contemporary poetry

Dominic Fox - poetry reading & launch of 'Half Cocks' (Intercapillary Editions)

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW

7.00pm, Thurs September 15th 2011, £5/£3 conc

Free Drinks + 'Interior Ears' for all

Openned Press launch Sean Bonney's 'the commons' - 21st Sept

2011-09-07T03:04:00.000-07:00

HI ZERO #7 - 19th September

2011-09-06T03:39:00.000-07:00

Critical Scree Punch Launch - 9th September Edinburgh

2011-09-05T03:49:00.000-07:00

Treble intersecting trajectories Punch Press (Frances Kruk & Danielle Collobert, Frances Crot) / Critical Documents (Posie Rider, Francis Crot [?]) / Scree issue 3 (Relax, Alland, Walton, Thomas, McCaffery, Brand, Ferguson, melville, Matsumoto, Surgery, Cheer, 'las Firs, Field Mo', tomthenoisemo', iliop, T&C, 'he Family Simpson at least) launches.

Time to clean up. Friday 18:45 at The Wash Bar. Part of Conversify.

POLYply > 12 - Thurs 8th Sept

2011-08-30T03:38:00.000-07:00

The Other Room - 24th August, Manchester

2011-08-20T09:37:00.000-07:00

Xing the Line - 24th August

2011-08-15T13:46:00.000-07:00

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 24th August, 7.30pm

Amy De'ath + Robert Vas Dias

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

Knives, Forks & Spoons Launch - 31st August, London

2011-08-15T13:42:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 31st August

Marcus Slease launches 'hello tiny bird brain'
Wayne Clements launches 'western philosophy'
collections published by Knives forks & Spoons press
(http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/)

also readings by
Tim Atkins - Elizabeth Guthrie - Michael Zand - Linus Slug - SJ Fowler - Patrick Coyle

Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London
7pm

The Blue Bus - 16th August

2011-08-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

The Blue BusTuesday 16^th August
Kater Murr’s Press poets: Participants in this event are likely to include Christopher Gutkind, Stephen Watts, Sharon Morris, Keith Jebb, Lesley McKenna, James Harvey, Richard Leigh and John Gibbens, with music from The Mind Shop (Armorel Weston, John Gibbens and David Miller).

at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1.
£5 / £3 concessions. 7.30pm sharp.

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

2011-07-31T02:31:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-27T03:52:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-22T03:36:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-20T03:23:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-20T03:19:00.000-07:00

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/

Xing The Line - 27th July

2011-07-13T07:03:00.000-07:00

XING THE LINE
Wednesday 27th July, 7.30pm

• Amy Evans
• Christine Ann Reynolds
• Marcus Slease

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

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

2011-07-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

FREE POETRY EVENT

Saturday 16th July, 1pm

MICHAEL EGAN

JOANNE ASHCROFT

PATRICIA FARRELL

NATHAN THOMPSON

&

Mello Mello

40 - 42 Slater Street
Liverpool
L1 4BX

http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk

The Other Room - 20th July, Manchester

2011-07-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

The Blue Bus - 12th July

2011-07-04T06:19:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 12th July

Paul Buck
Nat Raha
Nic Scott

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

2nd Annual Sussex Poetry Festival - 1st & 2nd July, Brighton

2011-06-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

The Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival takes place across 1st & 2nd July 2011
at The Nightingale Theatre, Grand Central, 29-30 Surrey Street, City Centre, Brighton

full schedule of readers and ticket details at http://sussexpoetryfestival.org.uk

Intercapillary Places - In Utero - Thurs 23rd June

2011-06-20T11:51:00.001-07:00

"Intercapillary Places" - In utero - Thursday 23rd June

Carol Watts: A talk on craniality and political economy

Marianne Morris: Poems with Beats

Arrive 6.30pm for drinks provided on the gallery's covered terrace.

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW

£3.00 / £1.50

Join us for this craniotomy among the spiderwebs, massed soldiers, ghost-warriors and silver torsos of Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Also, free 'Interior Ears' for all.

Map and further details

See you on thurs,

Edmund & Felicity, organisers

Half Circle 3 Launch - 16th June, Cambridge

2011-06-14T06:02:00.000-07:00

Thursday 16th June, 5.30pm

Readings by:

Emily Critchley
Amy De'Ath
Jonty Tiplady
Laura Kilbride

Christ's Pieces, 15 Emmanuel Rd, Cambridge CB1
Journal ( £4 at launch / £5 usual price)
http://halfcirclepoetry.blogspot.com/

Maintenant Slovakia Reading - 18th June

2011-06-14T05:59:00.000-07:00

{Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications}

Saturday 18th June 2011 - 7pm - Entrance Free

The Rich Mix arts centre, 5 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA www.richmix.org.uk

Ivan Štrpka - Mila Haugova

- Colin Herd - Marcus Slease - Tamarin Norwood - Jonty Tiplady - James Wilkes - Michael Zand

Arc Publications' Six Slovak Poets includes work by a generation who started publishing in the 1960s, who lived through the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and saw the 1993 division of the country give birth to today’s Slovak Republic. Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka, two of the collection’s contributors, will be joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series held at the Rich Mix arts centre in London's Brick Lane. As ever, the Maintenant series will advocate a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities - collecting together some of the most interesting performers Europe has to offer.

for info email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com

lineup subject to change

http://www.maintenant.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/maintenantpoetry

The Foule Readings- 17th June, Cambridge

2011-06-09T05:01:00.000-07:00

THE FOULE READINGS are a series of contemporary poetry readings in Cambridge organised by undergraduates in English (Caitlín Doherty, Andrew Griffin, Connie Scozzaro and Tomas Weber).

Friday 17th June

POETS:
Peter Riley
Neil Pattison
Rosa van Hensbergen
James Staniforth

7.30pm
New Cellars, Pembroke College, Cambridge

The Pembroke New Cellars are found beneath Foundress Court, the new building at the back of Pembroke. The porters will help you. Entry will be free. Wine will be free.

Hi Zero! #Five - 23rd June, Brighton

2011-06-09T04:59:00.000-07:00

Announcing the fifth Hi Zero poetry reading of the season, featuring the tongues in action of:

JOHN WILKINSON (Chicago)
DREW MILNE (Cambridge)
ED LUKER (Brighton)

Upstairs at THE OPEN HOUSE, next to London Road Station

146 Springfield Road, Brighton

Full details & directions on the FB event

Doors 7:30 for an 8 o'clock start - £4 for all.

POLYply 11 - 16th June

2011-06-09T04:55:00.000-07:00

The Blue Bus - 14th June

2011-06-09T04:53:00.001-07:00

Tuesday 14th June, 7.30pm (prompt)

Jeremy Hilton
Tom Lowenstein

The Lamb (upstairs room), 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

PRECESSION: THE CYNICS - Leeds TONIGHT

2011-06-09T04:52:00.000-07:00

Thursday 9th June, 7.30pm

Mik Artistik
Matthew Bellwood
Gareth Durasow
Stephen Emmerson
Dave Kane
Tony O/Neill
Eleanor Snare
Chris Stephenson

In putting together poets, performance and Leeds-based Cynics, whether it works or not, we wish to provide an entertaining, thought provoking evening ... & try to question what it is to be CYNICAL today?
Expect an enjoyable evening of ideas, expression, poetry and performance of contemporary merit with DJ playing records between.

TEMPLE.WORKS.LEEDS, Marshall Street, Leeds LS11 9YJ

Admission £5 (over 18s only). Buy tickets.

Website

Xing The Line / Birkbeck Reading - Thursday 2nd June

2011-05-25T07:00:00.001-07:00

Xing The Line/CPRC Birkbeck presents:

Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, Bill Bissett and Adeena Karasick

Thursday 02 June 2011
7.00pm start
32 Tavistock Square, London WC1

Surrey Poetry Festival - 21st May

2011-05-12T07:48:00.000-07:00

SURREY POETRY FESTIVAL
Saturday 21st May 2011
hosted by the University of Surrey

A day of modern and contemporary poetry, featuring readings, talks, and installations by:

Sophie Robinson
Tim Atkins
Peter Gizzi
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Emily Critchley
Robert Hampson
Jonty Tiplady
Justin Katko
Elizabeth Guthrie
Holly Pester
Edmund Hardy
Francesca Lisette
Joe Luna
Nat Raha
Jennifer Cooke
Sarah Kelly
David Ashford
Nick Spicer
Amy De'Ath

plus readings by Poetry Workshop students from the University of Surrey

The Angel Posting House & Livery

91 High Street
Guildford
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/6jbqywr

£6 / £4 concessions
refreshments and lunch served

The University of Surrey is located in Guildford, a 35-minute train ride from London Waterloo station.

Organised by Amy De'Ath, University of Surrey Poet in Residence
For more details please email a.de'ath@surrey.ac.uk

Crater Spring Event - 16 May

2011-05-12T04:03:00.000-07:00

Monday 16th May, 7.30 - 10.30pm

Ken Edwards
Gareth Farmer
Rob Holloway
Joe Luna
Gregorio Fontaine (singing songs)

The Old Red Lion Pub, 42 Kennington Park Rd, London SE11 4RS
Admission is free.

The Blue Bus - 17th May

2011-05-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 17th May

Frances Presley
Zoë Skoulding

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.), 7.30pm sharp

David Gaffney and James Davies book launches - 10th May, Manchester

2011-05-08T11:22:00.000-07:00

A reading to celebrate the launches of

David Gaffney’s The Half-Life of Songs published by Salt

and

James Davies’ Plants published by Reality Street

May 10th, 6.30pm
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester
This is a FREE event

via If P Then Q

Fuck the Festival - Brighton TONIGHT

2011-05-06T03:03:00.001-07:00

Xing the Line - 11th May

2011-05-06T03:02:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 11th May

James Davies
Carol Watts

The Apple Tree (upstairs), 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1X 0AE

7.3pm
Admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)

CRS Tonight

2011-05-06T03:00:00.001-07:00

Friday 6th May, 7pm

Jonny Liron
Joe Luna
Marianne Morris
Sophie Robinson

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Intercapillary Places Launch - Thursday 17th

2011-03-16T03:40:00.001-07:00

The first ever "Intercapillary" live event is nearly here - "I Know Something About Love"

"I Know Something About Love"

Thursday March 17th, 2011

6.30 for 7.00 pm at Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW

A walk around the 'Jardin d'amour' maze installation by Yinka Shonibare

Elizabeth Eger - A talk on 'Jardin d'amour'

Reitha Pattison - Reading from 'Some Fables'

£3 / £1.50

Important: As the capacity for the event is limited, please book in advance by emailing Charlotte Jones at events@parasol-unit.org or calling on 020 7490 7373 ext 20. Please be aware that if you haven't booked in advance and turn up on the night, this is fine but please be aware that if capacity is reached then you may not be allowed in.

Join us amid the Jardin d'amour, a large verdant maze installation which visitors can walk around, and which in the centre features three arrangements of headless aristocrats, though dressed in batik-style fabric - Elizabeth Eger will essay the labyrinth work to hand and its 18th century implications, then Reitha Pattison will read from "Some Fables".

We will be gathering in the gallery foyer from 6.30 to 7, allowing time to wander around and get lost in the installed Jardin d'amour maze. Then we will retire upstairs to the events room for Elizabeth Eger's talk on the Jardin followed by Reitha Pattison's poetry reading.

Hope to see you there amid the maze, beside the decapitated rococo lovers. There will be chairs to sit on, & 'Interior Ears' for all attendees...

About the Speakers

Elizabeth Eger is Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. Elizabeth teaches on the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth-century Studies at King's. Her research interests include women’s writing, poetry, visual culture and the conceptual history of ‘luxury’. Her published work includes Bluestockings: women of reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (2010), Luxury in the eighteenth-century: debates desires and delectable goods (co-edited with Maxine Berg, 2003), and critical editions of works by various Bluestocking writers and Maria Edgeworth. She curated the Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-century Bluestockings exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 and was co-editor of its accompanying catalogue. She is currently writing a biography of Elizabeth Montagu, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Reitha Pattison was born in London in 1977. Her first book of poetry, Word is Born, written with Michael Kindellan, was published by Arehouse Press in 2006; her new book, Some Fables, was published by Grasp Press earlier this year.

'Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol Unit' is organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts

For the latest Intercapillary updates follow Intercapillary Twitter
"I Know Something About Love" Facebook event page

The Blue Bus - 15th March - Bonney & Weller

2011-03-13T06:39:00.000-07:00

THE BLUE BUS
Tuesday 15th March

Sean Bonney
Mike Weller

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.), 7.30pm sharp

Runnymede International Literary Festival, London - 12th March

2011-03-07T06:10:00.000-08:00

Saturday 12th March, 2pm onwards

Ian Patterson
Emily Critchley
Tim Thornton
Amy De'Ath
Harry Gilonis
Redell Olsen
Fiona Templeton

Big Room and Atrium, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, King's Cross WC1X 9NG

via Openned

CRS - Patterson + Welish - 11th March

2011-03-07T06:08:00.001-08:00

CAMBRIDGE READING SERIES
Friday 11th March, 7.30pm

Ian Patterson
&
Marjorie Welish

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge University, Cambridge
Admission is free, all welcome

POLYply #8: Pulp - 10th March

2011-03-05T04:04:00.000-08:00

Hi Zero - 22nd March

2011-03-04T04:32:00.001-08:00

The second Hi Zero Poetry Reading Event Will Take Place on Tuesday 22nd March, 2011 at the HOPE in BRIGHTON, UK, and feature the mouths in action of the following poetical subjectivities:

LUKE ROBERTS
(One third of Grasp Press, editor of AXOLOTL, et al, ROBERT's poems are as rigorous in their concatenation of the moral and political as they are delicious in their prosodic inflection. See his work in HOT
GUN! 1, Damn the Cæsars Vol.... N, AXOLOTL, ate cetera, days all round but spiked with invoices.)

FRANCES KRUK
(Editor of YT COMMUNICATION, writer of verse streamlined in its intransitive commerce of geo-physical interaction rites, her poetry has been published in myriad collections from Shift & Switch to Infinite Difference to Damn the Cæsars et. al.,;- A Discourse on Vegetation and Motion was pub'ed by CRITICAL DOX in 2008)

DANNY HAYWARD
(Hayward began developing super-power skillsets in prosodic declamation prior to the application of these skills to Real-World database contamination of the wingspan. See Hi Zero Magazine One, one of the 25 numbered copies). See also how his poetry is the impassioned wingspan of the skillset machinating on the Real-World declamation of the Real)

All this and more with sound and people for £4 on the door, posters coming soon.

Hi Zero Magazine 2 will also be on sale. Submissions & letters. Welcome.

hizeroreadings@gmail.com
hizeroreadings.tumblr.com

Bonney & O'Sullivan - 2nd March, De Montford Uni

2011-02-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 2nd March, 6 - 7pm

Sean Bonney
Maggie O'Sullivan

Clephan Building, Rooms 2.32/2.33, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH
Admission is free but booking is required.

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Shearsman Reading Series - A Ground Aslant launch, 1st March

2011-02-26T07:57:00.000-08:00

Tuesday 1st March, 7.30pm
The launch of A Ground Aslant - Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo.
Readings from:

Ian Davidson
Mark Dickinson
Peter Larkin
Helen Macdonald
Wendy Mulford (TBC)
Frances Presley
Peter Riley
Harriet Tarlo
Carol Watts

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
Admission is free.

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Howl - Poetry Cafe, Saturday 5th March

2011-02-26T07:55:00.000-08:00

CRS #11 - Alice Notley + Reitha Pattison - 18th February

2011-02-09T11:09:00.000-08:00

All welcome - free admission - free wine

Release of Alba London Magazine Issue nº1 - 17th Feb

2011-02-09T11:06:00.001-08:00

Thursday 17th February, 6.30 - 9.30pm

Tim Atkins
Gregorio Fonten
Harry Gilonis
Alfonso Grez

Plus the release of Alba London Magazine Issue nº1.

Cervantes Institute, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN

Website

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POLYply 7 : Translation - 10th Feb

2011-02-09T11:03:00.000-08:00

Hi Zero Readings, Brighton - 17th February

2011-01-26T15:23:00.000-08:00

Announcing the first of a new run of fiercely fine poetry readings in Brighton, UK: THURSDAY 17th FEBRUARY 2011:

Jonty Tiplady + Amy De'Ath + Francesca Lisette

Upstairs at The Hope, Queen Street, Brighton
Doors at 7:30 for an 8:00pm sharp start.
£4 for all

Readings curated by Joe Luna. See http://hizeroreadings.tumblr.com/ for more.

Beyond Text - 28th January

2011-01-25T12:58:00.000-08:00

press free press presents

BEYOND TEXT: MAKING AND UNMAKING TEXT

an / evening / of / performance

looking / writing / movement / body / lines / dance / listening

@ / centre for creative collaboration / 16 acton st / W1CX 9NG
@ / 18:30 / friday 28/01/2011
@ / http://textmaking.blogspot.com/

Featuring:
Becky Cremin
Elizabeth Guthrie
Maura Hazelden
Alexandrina Hemsley
Eirini Kartsaki
Sarah Kelly
Christopher-Rasheem Mcmillan
Anne-Laure Misme
Ryan Ormonde
Katerina Paramana
Waldemar Pranckiewicz
Kate Wiggs
Steve Willey

CRS #10 - Drew Milne & Nat Raha - 28th Jan

2011-01-07T16:14:00.000-08:00

Cambridge Reading Series #10 - Friday 28th January

Drew Milne + Nat Raha

7.30pm, The Judith E Wilson Drama Studio
University of Cambridge English Faculty
9 West Road, Cambridge

All welcome - free admission - free wine

Emily Critchley & Timothy Thornton at the Parasol Unit - 27th Jan

2011-01-07T16:10:00.000-08:00

Thursday 27th January, 7pm:

Emily Critchley and Timothy Thornton

Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.

Part of the Parasol unit poetry programme in collaboration with writer and poet Barry Schwabsky

POLYply 6 : the Score - 13th January

2011-01-04T12:20:00.000-08:00

full info at http://polyply.wordpress.com

The Blue Bus - 18th January

2011-01-04T12:14:00.000-08:00

A Blue Bus Stop:

Tuesday 18th January
SIMON SMITH + MICHAEL GRANT

Update: please note that the event scheduled for Tuesday 25th January (John Phillips, David Miller & Richard Leigh has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled for later in the year)

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.), 7.30pm sharp

Shearsman Reading - Hjelmgaard & Zand (7th Dec)

2010-12-03T03:13:00.000-08:00

Tuesday 7th December, 7.30pm

Lynne Hjelmgaard
Michael Zand

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

free admission. mince pies rumoured.

Keston Sutherland, Pat Thomas, Martin Hackett - Oxford, Tonight

2010-12-03T03:11:00.000-08:00

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15th December - Tiplady & De'Ath Launch

2010-11-30T01:20:00.000-08:00

LONDON – Wednesday 15th December 2010:

Book Launch: Zam Bonk Dip (Tiplady) and Erec & Enide (De’Ath), both from Salt Publishing. With a video performance by Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary.

The Old Red Lion, 42 Kennington Park Road SE11 4RS.

Nearest tube Kennington.
Entrance free. Kick-off 19.30.

Edinburgh City Art Centre Reading - 3rd December

2010-11-28T05:40:00.000-08:00

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CRS 9: Keston Sutherland & Tom Leonard - Tonight

2010-11-26T04:47:00.000-08:00

Cambridge Reading Series: #9

Keston Sutherland & Tom Leonard

Tonight, 7.30pm
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge
(there's free wine, but someone best remember to bring a corkscrew)

The Situation Room - Nov Sats #4 - 27th

2010-11-24T04:08:00.000-08:00

Saturday 27th November, 7.30pm

Jennifer Cooke
Chris Goode
Jeremy Hardingham
Jonny Liron
Andrew Oliveira
Nat Raha
Steve Willey

Plus collaborative performance from Chris Goode, Jeremy Hardingham, Jonny Liron and Andrew Oliveira.

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, London N15

Admission is free. Full information about the Situation Room, with Maps & all, at http://sitroom.blogspot.com

Counting Backwards #4 - 2nd December, Manchester

2010-11-19T03:38:00.000-08:00

The Other Room, Manchester - 1st December

2010-11-19T03:34:00.001-08:00

Tiplady & De'Ath Salt Books Launch - Wednesday 15th December

2010-11-17T03:24:00.000-08:00

Jonty Tiplady & Amy De’Ath
with Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary

Book Launch: Zam Bonk Dip (Tiplady) and Erec & Enide (De’Ath), both from Salt Publishing. With a video performance by Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary.

The Old Red Lion, 42 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4RS.

Nearest tube Kennington.
Entrance free. Kick-off 19.30.

The Situation Room - November Saturdays #3 (20th)

2010-11-17T03:22:00.000-08:00

Saturday 20th November, 7.30pm

Emily Critchley
Edmund Hardy
Jeff Hilson
Francesca Lisette
Linus Slug
Steve Willey

Plus collaborative performance from Jonny Liron and Francesca Lisette.

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, London N15

Admission is free. Full information about the Situation Room, with Maps & all, at http://sitroom.blogspot.com

3am magazine & the Maintenant: ýr skáldskapur (27th Nov)

2010-11-11T05:03:00.000-08:00

3am magazine & the Maintenant series presents: nýr skáldskapur
Icelandic & British poetry in collaboration

a Free Poetry Reading at the Rich mix centre, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London . E1 6LA

Saturday November 27th - 7pm

• Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Jóhanns

• Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl & Stewart Home

• Scott Thurston & Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir

• Jón Örn Loðmfjörð & Tom Jenks

A truly unique evening of poetry will see the culmination of a rare and powerful collaboration between four of the most exciting new poetic talents emerging from the nation of Iceland and four of the UK's most lauded and iconoclastic writers, the fruit of a project instigated by the 3am magazine Maintenant interview series.

www.richmix.org.uk / www.maintenant.co.uk / www.3ammagazine.com

email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for inquiries

Small Publishers Fair - 12th & 13th November

2010-11-11T04:58:00.000-08:00

Friday 12th and Saturday 13th November 2010

Open 11am to 7pm each day - with readings throughout Saturday.

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

admission free, full details of publishers present &readings here.

The Situation Room - November Saturdays #2 (13th)

2010-11-11T04:56:00.000-08:00

Saturday 13th November, 7.30pm

Amy De'Ath
Elizabeth Guthrie
S. Kelly
Frances Kruk
Johanna Linsley
Marianne Morris
Sophie Robinson

Plus collaborative performance from Marianne Morris and The Ventriloquent Agitators

7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, London N15

Admission is free. Full information about the Situation Room, with Maps & all, at http://sitroom.blogspot.com

Salt Crashaw and Scott Prize Winners Book Launch - 11th November

2010-11-11T04:53:00.000-08:00

Thursday 11th November, 7.30 - 10.30pm

Andrew Pidoux
Nick Potamitis
Susannah Rickards
Jonty Tiplady
Ryan Van Winkle
Anna Woodford

The Phoenix Artist Club, 1 Phoenix Street, London WC2H 0DT

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POLYply.5 - Fear - 11th November

2010-11-11T04:52:00.000-08:00

21st October - PtM

2010-10-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

The Scottish Writers' Centre presents Poems for the Millennium Volume 3, The University of California Book of Romantic & Post Romantic Poetry, Winner of the 2010 American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation.

Thursday 21 October, 7pm. The Clubroom, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD.

Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson will be joined by Scottish poets Aonghas Macneacail, Gerrie Fellows, Tom Leonard, Peter Manson, Jane Goldman reading selections from Poems for The Millennium Vol. 3.

Latin American Poetry Multilingual Reading and Booklaunch - 20th October

2010-10-11T07:52:00.000-07:00

Co-sponsored by the Native Spirit Festival and the Poetics Centre at Birkbeck College.

On Wednesday 20th October at 7.30 pm in Room 421, Birkbeck College, Main Building, followed by a reception.

Cecilia Vicuña will be presenting the recently published Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry in Translation. One of the editors of the book, Cecilia Vicuña is a highly respected Chilean poet, performer, and filmmaker. She will be showing a short film of the visual poetry included in the book and reading her work and work by other poets.

Readers from English: Sean Bonney, Ruth Fainlight, Harry Gilonis, Frances Kruk, Stephen Mooney, James O’Hern, William Rowe
Readers from Spanish: Cecilia Vicuña, Albert Pellicer
From Quechua: Cecilia Vicuña
From Latin: Harry Gilonis

The anthology is distinguished from previous anthologies by the inclusion of visual poetry, of native language poetry in Nahuatl, Mapuche, Quechua, Guaraní and Maya, and of avant-gardist poetry, as well as of poetry from the colonial period. It is by far the best anthology available.

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Other Events

Cecilia Vicuña is presenting her film Kon Kon (54 mins) at the Native Spirit Festival on Wednesday 13th October at 7.40 pm at the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.

The Native Spirit Festival is hosting a poetry reading by Albert Pellicer, Stephen Watts, William Rowe and Cecilia Vicuña at 6.30 pm on Thursday 21st October pm at the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

Xing the Line - October 13th

2010-10-05T07:49:00.000-07:00

William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, Shoreditch, London N1 7QE. Wednesday October 13, 7.30. Nearest tube Old Street.

Take exit 1 out of Old Street station and walk up City Road, turning right into Shepherdess Walk at The Eagle. The William IV is a couple of minutes up the road, on the left.

Laurie Duggan, Susana Gardner, Simon Smith.

Laurie Duggan's The Epigrams of Martial is a new and revised edition of the book published by Scripsi in 1989. Peter Craven describes Duggan's MARTIAL as "sensuous, streamlined, and thoroughly unsavoury" and Hugh Kenner called the translations "remarkable." Poet August Kleinzahler contributed an Afterword to this edition.

Susana Gardner’s [lapsed insel weary]: "As the title suggests this is a sequence of articulations on the enduring themes of loss, separation, and messy love: love is always messy. But Gardner does not indulge in the easy clichés of introspection or confession: here she conjures up an hypnotic, somnambulistic symphony of exquisite desolation. 'No man is an island' wrote John Donne but Gardner knows that is only a half truth, especially if you are a woman. Against a backdrop of the sea the breaking waters of waves and birth crash through these pages with a contradictory melancholic joy. Her island is inescapable but it has a bird and it is shot through with the vitality of colour and the colour of tenacious life. Disturbingly beautiful." --Geraldine Monk

London Bridge, Simon Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, is an accessible, funny and immediate book of poems about life in the City amidst the contingent camera-shake and confusions of the everyday. The book concentrates on the experience of living in London – a book which is accessible, contemporary and sassy.

That’s right – sassy.

Crater Autumn Event - Tuesday 12th October

2010-09-28T02:53:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 12th October, 7 - 11pm

Crater Press's autumn list will be launching at this event. Featuring readings by:

* Tim Atkins
* Sean Bonney
* Elizabeth Guthrie
* Justin Katko
* Michael Kindellan

The Old Red Lion, 42 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4RS

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SJ Fowler launch reading - Wednesday 6th October

2010-09-28T02:51:00.001-07:00

Wednesday 6th October, 7pm

A launch of five SJ Fowler publications by four presses:

* Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Antonio Margarito, by The Arthur Shilling Press
* Animal Husbandry, by Kitt Press
* Arthur Abraham, by Knives, Forks & Spoons Press
* Klitschko, by zimZalla

The event will feature a 40 minute reading from S J Fowler and a sales table with work from the list of each of the presses.

Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY

Admission is free.

The Other Room - October 6th and 19th

2010-09-13T10:48:00.000-07:00

Two events in October:

October 6th
The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY. 7pm. Free admission.

Adrian Clarke
Steve Willey
Emily Critchley

October 19th
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, Cambridge Street, Manchester. 6pm start. Free admission.

Jerome Rothenberg
Allen Fisher
Maggie O'Sullivan

PLUS launch of the third volume of the University of California's Poems for the Millennium co-edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson.

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www.otherroom.org

Xing The Line - 22nd Sept

2010-09-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 22nd September, 7.30pm

To try out the new venue, Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson will walk the planks of the upstairs room, and read.

William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7QE. Nearest tube Old Street.
No eye patches.