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

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

"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

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

{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

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

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

The Blue Bus - 14th June

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

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

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

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

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

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

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