Andrea Brady
at Parasol Unit on Tuesday 30 April at 7pm:
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=22
Andrea Brady & Carol Watts + music
at Cafe Oto in Dalston on Sunday 17 May at 3pm:
18-22 Ashwin St
London E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/index.shtm
Grasp Press Reading in Brighton - 28th April
Chlorine Readings are proud to present
A Grasp Press Reading in Brighton
Featuring Keston Sutherland, Timothy Thornton, Luke Roberts and Francesca Lisette.
Tuesday 28th April, 8pm start
@ The Hope, Queens Road Brighton.
Entry £5 waged, £3 concessions.
BE THERE, WITH SOCKS ON.
www.grasp-press.co.uk
A Grasp Press Reading in Brighton
Featuring Keston Sutherland, Timothy Thornton, Luke Roberts and Francesca Lisette.
Tuesday 28th April, 8pm start
@ The Hope, Queens Road Brighton.
Entry £5 waged, £3 concessions.
BE THERE, WITH SOCKS ON.
www.grasp-press.co.uk
Satellites Talking
Hello all!
Just a wee reminder that it is one week until the beautiful wonderland adventure that is Satellites Talking - March of the Mad Hatter!
Saturday 21st March @ The Betsey Trotwood (upstairs), 56 Farringdon Road, 7:30pm..
Featuring:
--> Tim Clare
--> Christopher Horton
--> Dirty Dwellings
--> Jasmine Ann Cooray
--> Gabi Garbutt and the Bread Stealers
PLUS! Serving up the same Mad Tea-Party treats as usual; a trestle table of good music, drinking and dancing between the above...
Come on, you know you're curious...and perhaps even curiouser!
Just a wee reminder that it is one week until the beautiful wonderland adventure that is Satellites Talking - March of the Mad Hatter!
Saturday 21st March @ The Betsey Trotwood (upstairs), 56 Farringdon Road, 7:30pm..
Featuring:
--> Tim Clare
--> Christopher Horton
--> Dirty Dwellings
--> Jasmine Ann Cooray
--> Gabi Garbutt and the Bread Stealers
PLUS! Serving up the same Mad Tea-Party treats as usual; a trestle table of good music, drinking and dancing between the above...
Come on, you know you're curious...and perhaps even curiouser!
11th March
John Wilkinson
and
Peter Manson
Wednesday 11th March,
5.30 pm.
Free entry. All welcome.
Room GR05 (Ground Floor) of the English Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP.
Enquries to:
Drew Milne
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
John Wilkinson is Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches literature and creative writing, having worked in UK mental health services for three decades. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center. The Guardian described his recent book of poetry, "Lake Shore Drive" (Salt 2006), as “multiplex, visionary, ragged, and exceedingly strange because exceedingly true to reality”. Among his recent publications are "The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess" (Salt, 2006) and "Down to
Earth" (Salt, 2008).
Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include "Between Cup and Lip" (Miami University Press, Ohio 2008), "For the Good of Liars" (Barque Press, London 2006), "Adjunct: an Undigest" (Edinburgh Review 2005) and "Before and After Mallarmé" (Survivors' Press, Glasgow 2005). He was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Girton College,
Cambridge. His website, "Freebase Accordion", is at www.petermanson.com. Some audio and video can be found on www.archiveofthenow.com and www.youtube.com
This reading is supported by the Judith E Wilson Fund, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
and
Peter Manson
Wednesday 11th March,
5.30 pm.
Free entry. All welcome.
Room GR05 (Ground Floor) of the English Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP.
Enquries to:
Drew Milne
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
John Wilkinson is Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches literature and creative writing, having worked in UK mental health services for three decades. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center. The Guardian described his recent book of poetry, "Lake Shore Drive" (Salt 2006), as “multiplex, visionary, ragged, and exceedingly strange because exceedingly true to reality”. Among his recent publications are "The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess" (Salt, 2006) and "Down to
Earth" (Salt, 2008).
Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include "Between Cup and Lip" (Miami University Press, Ohio 2008), "For the Good of Liars" (Barque Press, London 2006), "Adjunct: an Undigest" (Edinburgh Review 2005) and "Before and After Mallarmé" (Survivors' Press, Glasgow 2005). He was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Girton College,
Cambridge. His website, "Freebase Accordion", is at www.petermanson.com. Some audio and video can be found on www.archiveofthenow.com and www.youtube.com
This reading is supported by the Judith E Wilson Fund, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
Xing the Line Special
Thursday 5th March, 7.30 pm
Tim Atkins
Sean Bonney
Harry Gilonis
Jeff Hilson
Frances Kruk,
Mendoza
Ben Watson
Steve Willey
Michael J Weller
Johan de Wit
Others TBA
POST-CARCERAL PAUL PARTY: A FUNDRAISER FOR PAUL SUTTON
As many of you know, Paul spent the Xmas period banged up in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison. We thought we’d raise him some cash to make up for his dismal ordeal! There’ll also be a bookstall the proceeds of which will go to Paul. Please bring anything you want to sell!
The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
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Admission: £5
Tim Atkins
Sean Bonney
Harry Gilonis
Jeff Hilson
Frances Kruk,
Mendoza
Ben Watson
Steve Willey
Michael J Weller
Johan de Wit
Others TBA
POST-CARCERAL PAUL PARTY: A FUNDRAISER FOR PAUL SUTTON
As many of you know, Paul spent the Xmas period banged up in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison. We thought we’d raise him some cash to make up for his dismal ordeal! There’ll also be a bookstall the proceeds of which will go to Paul. Please bring anything you want to sell!
The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN
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Admission: £5
Poetry by David Chaloner at Parasol Unit
The Parasol Unit Readings Series continues on Thursday, 19 March at 7 pm with a reading by David Chaloner.
David Chaloner is one of the most distinguished poets at work today. He was born in rural Cheshire in 1944, and Manchester provided the cultural and social context for his early writing, which appeared in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion, among others. In the late sixties he founded One, a magazine for new writing. He has lived in London since the early seventies, and continues to publish prolifically. His Collected Poems (Salt) appeared in 2005, and his most recent book is Beyond These Lines (Equipage, 2007). Peter Riley has praised Chaloner’s work as “a poetry which draws its discourse from the central history of poetry in English by being an ever-new thing, the script of here and now by its very freshness.”
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.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public. The next reading after David Chaloner’s will be by Andrea Brady, on Thursday, 30 April.
David Chaloner is one of the most distinguished poets at work today. He was born in rural Cheshire in 1944, and Manchester provided the cultural and social context for his early writing, which appeared in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion, among others. In the late sixties he founded One, a magazine for new writing. He has lived in London since the early seventies, and continues to publish prolifically. His Collected Poems (Salt) appeared in 2005, and his most recent book is Beyond These Lines (Equipage, 2007). Peter Riley has praised Chaloner’s work as “a poetry which draws its discourse from the central history of poetry in English by being an ever-new thing, the script of here and now by its very freshness.”
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.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public. The next reading after David Chaloner’s will be by Andrea Brady, on Thursday, 30 April.
Egnep's Tour
Mike Weller's forthcoming readings:
Wednesday 4th March
Klinker South, Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE14
Thursday 5th March
XING THE LINE (benefit for Paul Sutton)
15 Leathermarket St., London SE1 3HN
Sunday 15th March
Sundays at the Oto
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St., Dalston E8
(TBC)
Klinker North, Cross Keys, 126 York Way N1
Tuesday 21st April
The Blue Bus (with Jow Lindsay)
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit St., London WC1
Entrance fees vary.
All events begin around 8pm, except for Sundays at the Oto, at 3pm.
Wednesday 4th March
Klinker South, Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE14
Thursday 5th March
XING THE LINE (benefit for Paul Sutton)
15 Leathermarket St., London SE1 3HN
Sunday 15th March
Sundays at the Oto
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St., Dalston E8
(TBC)
Klinker North, Cross Keys, 126 York Way N1
Tuesday 21st April
The Blue Bus (with Jow Lindsay)
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit St., London WC1
Entrance fees vary.
All events begin around 8pm, except for Sundays at the Oto, at 3pm.
Cambridge readings
POETS AND THE HOUSE: FOUR READINGS
Kettle's Yard
Wednesdays in March, 1.15-1.45pm
Four contemporary poets read the works of four 20th century poets, each intimately connected with artists exhibited in the house. Free of charge.
4 March J.H. Prynne responding to Ezra Pound
11 March Leo Mellor responding to David Jones
18 March Melanie Challenger responding to Adrian Stokes
25 March Ian Patterson responding to W. S. Graham
For entrance please come to the black door on the small courtyard opposite the gallery entrance from 1 pm on the day of the reading.
Kettle's Yard
Wednesdays in March, 1.15-1.45pm
Four contemporary poets read the works of four 20th century poets, each intimately connected with artists exhibited in the house. Free of charge.
4 March J.H. Prynne responding to Ezra Pound
11 March Leo Mellor responding to David Jones
18 March Melanie Challenger responding to Adrian Stokes
25 March Ian Patterson responding to W. S. Graham
For entrance please come to the black door on the small courtyard opposite the gallery entrance from 1 pm on the day of the reading.
La Langoustine est Morte
WHERE: Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Tube: Covent Garden
WHEN: MARCH 7th 2009 7:30
We have quite a linguistic adventure lined up for March. Cristina Viti & Stephen Watts will be reading from their new book Mountain Language/Lingua di montagna is a bilingual prose poem tracing the course of a deep journey into land, language and memory. Stephen Watts's original English text, considering aspects of his family's roots in the Italian Alps, has been translated by Cristina Viti into one of the Italian languages it ultimately came from.
We also have Michael Zand who likes to cross-pollinate languages and is originally from Iran, the resplendent AnnMarie Eldon also with a new book out who likes to slice and dice the words and then sprinkle them with pizazzazzazzz, and a dash of humour for good measure with Stephanie Leal ... Step right up!
WHEN: MARCH 7th 2009 7:30
We have quite a linguistic adventure lined up for March. Cristina Viti & Stephen Watts will be reading from their new book Mountain Language/Lingua di montagna is a bilingual prose poem tracing the course of a deep journey into land, language and memory. Stephen Watts's original English text, considering aspects of his family's roots in the Italian Alps, has been translated by Cristina Viti into one of the Italian languages it ultimately came from.
We also have Michael Zand who likes to cross-pollinate languages and is originally from Iran, the resplendent AnnMarie Eldon also with a new book out who likes to slice and dice the words and then sprinkle them with pizazzazzazzz, and a dash of humour for good measure with Stephanie Leal ... Step right up!
Desperate for Love Reading in BRIGHTON
Tuesday 3rd March, 8pm
- Sean Bonney
- Wolfy Jones
- Jon Slade
Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN
£3
TALKSTALKSTALKS
Chums:
the TALKSTALKSTALKS series resumes this Wednesday, 18 February 2009, at Birkbeck College, 7:30-9:00pm (room: Clore 102 - details below), with:
Stephen Mooney - Discontinuous Visuality - Brakhage's 'just seeing', and
Background Temporality in contemporary poetics
"Stan Brakhage has offered viewers of his films an expanded sense of what the camera can achieve. His influential development of theories of 'hypnogogic vision' and 'moving visual thinking' complicate the ways in which viewers of his films experience the visual. What is presented on the screen often reflects a discontinuous sense of the camera as eye that relates to physical aspects of seeing, and that engages with the viewer's own sense of the visual. [Stephen Mooney's] paper seeks to show ways in which Stan Brakhage's 'just seeing' is useful, in an expository way, in the contextualisation of some of the poetic techniques and strategies used in contemporary poetry in relation to the formulation, and manifestation, of complex temporal structures that invoke a sense of 'background temporality', or sense of temporal engagement that informs the poem, and the performance of the poem. [He] will demonstrate ways in which these poetries can engage with forms of discontinuous visuality, visuality that is fractured and multiply activated, particularly in terms of its temporal operation. Specifically [he] will look at some examples from the poetry of Lee Harwood, Bruce Andrews and Joan Retallack."
*** NB This and the other TALKS in this term's program will take place in Room 102 in the Clore Management Centre, *not* as of yore the Council Room - the Clore Management Centre is in Torrington Square, a 2 minute walk from the main Birkbeck building - see
>
http://www.londontown.com/LondonInformation/Business/Birbeck_University_London__
Clore_Management_Centre/26608/#MAP
and
> http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
for the exact location...
the TALKSTALKSTALKS series resumes this Wednesday, 18 February 2009, at Birkbeck College, 7:30-9:00pm (room: Clore 102 - details below), with:
Stephen Mooney - Discontinuous Visuality - Brakhage's 'just seeing', and
Background Temporality in contemporary poetics
"Stan Brakhage has offered viewers of his films an expanded sense of what the camera can achieve. His influential development of theories of 'hypnogogic vision' and 'moving visual thinking' complicate the ways in which viewers of his films experience the visual. What is presented on the screen often reflects a discontinuous sense of the camera as eye that relates to physical aspects of seeing, and that engages with the viewer's own sense of the visual. [Stephen Mooney's] paper seeks to show ways in which Stan Brakhage's 'just seeing' is useful, in an expository way, in the contextualisation of some of the poetic techniques and strategies used in contemporary poetry in relation to the formulation, and manifestation, of complex temporal structures that invoke a sense of 'background temporality', or sense of temporal engagement that informs the poem, and the performance of the poem. [He] will demonstrate ways in which these poetries can engage with forms of discontinuous visuality, visuality that is fractured and multiply activated, particularly in terms of its temporal operation. Specifically [he] will look at some examples from the poetry of Lee Harwood, Bruce Andrews and Joan Retallack."
*** NB This and the other TALKS in this term's program will take place in Room 102 in the Clore Management Centre, *not* as of yore the Council Room - the Clore Management Centre is in Torrington Square, a 2 minute walk from the main Birkbeck building - see
>
http://www.londontown.com/LondonInformation/Business/Birbeck_University_London__
Clore_Management_Centre/26608/#MAP
and
> http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
for the exact location...
Shearsman Reading Series - Tuesday Evenings
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. There is no admission fee.
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Forthcoming dates are as follows.
All events start at 7:30 pm.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
philip kuhn and Robert Sheppard
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Erín Moure (reading her translations of Chus Pato)
and Lisa Samuels
Thursday 16 April 2009
Martin Anderson and Claire Crowther
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Anne Blonstein and others tbc
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Kenny Knight and others tbc
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Forthcoming dates are as follows.
All events start at 7:30 pm.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
philip kuhn and Robert Sheppard
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Erín Moure (reading her translations of Chus Pato)
and Lisa Samuels
Thursday 16 April 2009
Martin Anderson and Claire Crowther
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Anne Blonstein and others tbc
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Kenny Knight and others tbc
Alan Halsey launch (updated with plusplus)
You are invited to the launch of:
Lives of the Poets by ALAN HALSEY
Wednesday 11th February 2009.
7.00-9.00 pm, The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1.
There will be a reading from 7.30 - 8.00.
Wine will be served. All Welcome.
Lives of the Poets is published by Five Seasons Press, February 2009 (£25)
>>> AND
³POETRY WALES²/"The Wolf" launch at the Wheatsheaf pub, W1T 1DG. James Byrne, Sandeep Parmar, Zoë Skoulding, all on for 15 minutes each.
(((One could thus sprint from Birkbeck west-ish along Store Street, across the Tott. Court Road and straight on until you meet Charlotte Street, left into same, straight along down Rathbone Place, to the Wheatsheaf, a mock-Tudor jobbie on the left halfway down that short street, with its own road entry and catch most, possibly all, of the first half.)))
The second half - approx. 9:00-9:45 - will include Harry Gilonis and Carol Watts; and Niall McDevitt singing his own settings of Dylan Thomas poems.
As far as I know both events are free. Wheatsheaf beer commended.
Lives of the Poets by ALAN HALSEY
Wednesday 11th February 2009.
7.00-9.00 pm, The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1.
There will be a reading from 7.30 - 8.00.
Wine will be served. All Welcome.
Lives of the Poets is published by Five Seasons Press, February 2009 (£25)
>>> AND
³POETRY WALES²/"The Wolf" launch at the Wheatsheaf pub, W1T 1DG. James Byrne, Sandeep Parmar, Zoë Skoulding, all on for 15 minutes each.
(((One could thus sprint from Birkbeck west-ish along Store Street, across the Tott. Court Road and straight on until you meet Charlotte Street, left into same, straight along down Rathbone Place, to the Wheatsheaf, a mock-Tudor jobbie on the left halfway down that short street, with its own road entry and catch most, possibly all, of the first half.)))
The second half - approx. 9:00-9:45 - will include Harry Gilonis and Carol Watts; and Niall McDevitt singing his own settings of Dylan Thomas poems.
As far as I know both events are free. Wheatsheaf beer commended.
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