Steven Fowler has set up an online archive of some of his readings, including at the Wigmore Hall, Guildhall, Morden Tower, Birkbeck college, the Blue Bus, the New Gallery and the Art uncut protest.
Month: June 2011
The Other Room 25 – Manchester – Tonight
The Other Room 24 – Leeds – Tonight
Hi Zero! #FIVE Contemporary Poetry Readings in Brighton
Via Joe Luna:
”
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)
More info soon. Make sure you can come. ALSO PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: We are NOT at the HOPE this time, but at the OPEN HOUSE. It’s right next to London Road station.
If you’re coming from London, or further afield: From Brighton station, instead of walking out and down the hill, just jump on a train going up to Seaford or Lewes (usually platform 8), and the first stop will be London Road. You won’t need to buy an extra ticket for this journey, as an Anywhere – Brighton ticket covers both Brighton itself and London Road.
Once off at London Road, simply turn left and the OPEN HOUSE is RIGHT THERE.
See: http://tinyurl.com/5st3346 for a map.
Doors 7:30 for an 8 o’clock start – £4 for all.
Yes.”
More here.
Maintenant #64: Željko Mitić
Whether birthed in collaboration or contradiction with its culture, a nation like Serbia is bound to produce iconoclastic and intractable poets. In Željko Mitić, the new Serbia has found a poet that speaks with a vitality and energy few can match, and in whom a generation has found representation. One of the very most exciting and imperative writers emerging in Europe, Mitić is a critic, a poet, a persona and his work is intense, humourous, satirical and pointed. With Zvonko Karanovic and Ana Božičević, he is amongst the many fantastic poets emerging from the Balkans in the new millenium, who are piece by piece overturning the proprietorial dominance of formal poetry and forcing themselves into recognition. A poet truly representative of the spirit of the Maintenant series, we welcome Željko Mitić as our 64th edition.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-64-zeljko-mitic/
Accompanying the interview are twelve of Željko’s poems.
Questions for Painters by Nathan Thompson
New ebook now available at Red Ceilings.
Iain Sinclair, John Wilkinson, Emily Critchley & Rob Stanton
Indie literary press Penned in the Margins presents a summer solstice celebration of alternative poetry and experimental language, headlined by cult London writer IAIN SINCLAIR.
Iain is joined by US-based poet JOHN WILKINSON, one of the most influential experimental writers of his generation, plus new Penned in the Margins authors EMILY CRITCHLEY and ROB STANTON.
* Rob will be launching his debut collection, The Method
The event takes place in The Nave – a beautiful and atmospheric converted church and performance space in the Islington / Hackney borders. There will be a bar and a bookstall.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £6 online / £7 on the door
Buy now to avoid disappointment:
James Davies Plants reviewed
‘The instability of definitions and the volatility of signs and signifiers’
More at Bookmunch.
COPYS By Craig Dworkin
‘My idea for these poems is that they be like cigarettes. On the one hand, briefly intense and repaying as much focused contemplation as you want to give them — each is in fact composed according to a rigorous and elided formal logic — but then also, at the very same time, merely discardable amusements: quickly read and easily forgotten, thrown away without a second thought as soon as they are finished.’ — Craig Dworkin
Originally published in the UK by Matchbox in May 2007, No press is proud to return this rarely-seen edition to print.
Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy consists of 34 loose cards in a hand-typed envelope.
Copies are available for $8.00 each (including postage).
To order, please contact derek beaulieu.
POLYply > 11 Energy
Allen Fisher
Ken Hyder
Justin Katko
Christian Kerrigan
Marianne Morris
Thursday 16 June, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
Flarf is 10
“In 10 years, the 30-odd people who wound up coming and going on the list published dozens of books and chapbooks, held a number of festivals in New York, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore and elsewhere, and put on high-profile readings at the Denver Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Whitney (with our rivals and closest peers, the Conceptual Writers). Collections of flarf appeared in the online magazine, Jacket, and—scandalously—in Poetry magazine, our second and last appearance with the Conceptual Writers before their attempted hostile takeover. We were written about in numerous alt weekly papers, as well as in Poets & Writers and the Wall Street Journal. The BBC, Wired and NPR covered our activities—as well as the anger our very existence seemed to incite.”
Harriet Tarlo: Ground Aslant event
14 June at 7.30pm at Choppards Mission, nr. Holmfirth.
Hosted by Ian McMillan as part of the Holmfirth Art Festival. Harriet Tarlo, Mark Dickinson and Frances Presley will answer questions and read.
For directions to Choppards Mission and for more information, go to http://www.holmfirthartsfestival.co.uk
Maintenant #63: Colin Herd
Inarguably symbolic of the dexterity and erudition of a new generation of Scottish poets, Colin Herd is an instantly memorable presence in the contemporary poetry scene north of the border. Deft, at times demure, urbane and insightful, his poetry is effusive in its grace and ease of motion. Yet Herd is a markedly energetic presence leading a resurgence of poetry in and around the city of Edinburgh. A critic of some note and already demanding a considerable following in both the UK and the United States (lauded by Dennis Cooper, amongst others) we are pleased he is our first Scots Maintenant inductee and another valuable addition to the growing record of contemporary European poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/
Accompanying the interview are six of Colin’s poems.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
It should also be mentioned Colin is going to be reading at the next Maintenant event in just under 3 weeks time.
Allen Fisher events June 2011-October 2011
June 2nd, Thursday, 7.30 pm
Reading for the 3rd Hay Poetry Jamboree at Oriel Contemporary Arts,
Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye.
Over three days, June 2-4, other participants include: Ralph Hawkins, Colin Still (films), Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green, Robert Sheppard, Carol Watts, Sean Bonney, Frances Presley, Glenn Storrhaug, Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoe Skoulding, Kelvin Corcoran, Maggie O’Sullivan.
June 9-11
Skipping across the pond: interaction between American and British poetries 1964-1970; Plenary for Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today conference at Institut Charles V in Paris. Some of the other participants are: Peter Middleton, Romana Huk, Scott Thurston, Xavier Kalck, Luke Roberts, Nandini Ramesh Sankar, Robin Purves, Geraldine Monk, Carol Watts, John Wilkinson, Keston Sutherland, David Kennedy, Emily Critchley, Michael Kindellan, Simon Perril, Sophie Robinson, Ian Davidson, Sam Ladkin, Joe Luna, Will Montgomery, Vincent Broqua, cris cheek, Joshua Adams, Jennifer Cooke, Lacy Rumsey, Jeff Hilson, Neil Psatterson, Sara Crangle, Simon Jarvis, Drew Milne, Robert Hampson.
June 16, Thursday, 7pm-9pm
Proposals performance for POLYply, The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG; other participants are Ken Hyder,
Justin Katko, Christian Kerrigan (t.b.c.) and Marianne Morris.
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG.
June 21, Tuesday, early evening
Complexity Manifold: Falmouth synopsis, Performance and Contexture event,
University College Falmouth, Wood Lane.
July 6-7
follow up sessions to April 13th session
PARC NorthWest, Practice as Research Consortium, Manchester.
September 16th, Friday, 7.30 pm
British Romantic Painters, invited talk for the
Hereford Arts Appreciation Society.
September 30th, Friday, 7.30 pm
Images of Health and Well-being, twenty-first annual HACS lecture, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford.
October 14th, Thursday, 4.30 pm
Reading performance for Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago.
October 15th, Friday, 1 pm
Lecture for Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago.
October 27th, Thursday, 4.30 pm
Lecture for Department of English, University of Notre Dame,
Strength in frailty: British poetry in the new millennium.
October 27th, Thursday, 7.30 pm
Reading at Hammes Bookstore, South Bend, Indiana
supported by the Department of English, University of Notre Dame.
November 12th, Saturday 2.30 pm
Narrative Walls: Renaissance frescoes: Giotto to Michelangelo for The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies.
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