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The Verb: Voice Hearing

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Ian McMillan’s guests include Charles Fernyhough, author of ‘Pieces of Light’ (Profile). Charles is Professor of Psychology at Durham University, where he is leading the ‘Hearing The Voice’, an interdisciplinary research project that aims to better understand the experience of hearing voices.

The poet SJ Fowler celebrates the avant garde in his work and he has written a new piece for us inspired by the work of ‘Hearing of the Voice’. Fowler’s latest collection of poetry is ‘Enthusiasm’ (Test Centre).

Listen live on BBC Radio 3 at 22:00 on Friday, 15th January or on the BBC website afterwards.

Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Holly Pester, Anthony Horowitz on The Verb

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Friday No 27th 2015 on BBC Radio 3 – The Verb, Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Holly Pester, Anthony Horowitz

Where do you find the permission to be creative? The Verb aims to find out with Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Anthony Horowitz and Holly Pester.

Patti Smith has just published her second volume of memoir ‘M Train’ (Bloomsbury), a book that follows Patti around New York as she writes, reads and drinks coffee.

Grayson Perry’s recent exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate ‘Provincial Punk’ examined his interests in contemporary Britain from class and taste to war.

Anthony Horowitz has just published his second James Bond novel ‘Trigger Mortis’ (Orion). He explains where he gets the permission to take on another writer’s most famous character.

The poet and sound artist Holly Pester examines the phenomenon of ‘vocal fry’ in a special commission for The Verb.

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Emily Critchley: A Preview

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On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.

Emily Critchley is the author of several poetry collections (with Arehouse, Bad press, Dusie, Oystercatcher, Torque, Holdfire, Corrupt and Intercapillary presses) and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles – on poetry, philosophy and feminism – and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: linguistically innovative poetry by women in north America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, and lives in London with her partner and daughter.

Here is Emily being interviewed at The Other Room a few years back


Elizabeth Jane Burnett: A Preview

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On December 9th 2015 The Other Room is very pleased to be hosting the launch of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative poetry by Women in North America & the UK. Hope to see you there. Flier in the middle column for more details.

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet, critic and curator. Poetry includes: Her Body: The City, Exotic Birds and oh-zones and has been anthologised in Dear World And Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe). Criticism has appeared in journals such as the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Jacket, How2, Green Humanities. She has curated exhibitions with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and is currently collaborating on a film on the poet John Clare. A collection on wild swimming and a monograph on the gift are forthcoming. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University in Birmingham.

http://www.elizabethjaneburnett.com/

Pugilistica: celebrating boxing poetry

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Held on November 4th 2015, in the extraordinary environs of http://www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica brought together poets, academics, writers, artists and photographers to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. It featured fiction from Anna Whitwham, poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who presented his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’ The event also saw the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition. More at the Enemies Project site.

Claire-Louise Bennett and Brian Dillon at Anthony Burgess Foundation

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Pond with Claire-Louise Bennett and Brian Dillon

Tuesday, October 6th, 2015, 6:30 pm | Free

Pond, the first collection of short stories from Galway-based writer Claire-Louise Bennett, is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitary life told by an unnamed narrator living on the edge of a coastal town. Bennett pushes the boundaries of the short story into new territory. Part prose fiction, part stream of consciousness, Pond has been compared to Jenny Offill’s acclaimed Dept of Speculation. Hosted in partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, an independent publisher specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays, this event offers the opportunity to hear from a writer experimenting with narrative and form. Claire-Louise will be interviewed by writer and critic Brian Dillon. Brian is reader in critical writing at the Royal College of Art, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. His books include Objects in This Mirror: Essays (Sternberg Press, 2014), Sanctuary (Sternberg Press, 2011), Ruins (MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery, 2011), Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives(Penguin, 2009) and In the Dark Room (Penguin 2005). His writing appears regularly in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Artforum and Frieze. Contact events@anthonyburgess.org to book.

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/

The Globe Road Poetry Festival, 13-15 November

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The QMUL Centre for Poetry is thrilled to invite you to a three-day world poetry festival, celebrating the diversity of local and global poetic traditions in London’s East End, to be held at Queen Mary University of London, 13-15 November 2015.

Performers include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Daljit Nagra, M. NourbeSe Philip, Myung Mi Kim, Kaiser Haq, Caroline Bergvall, Samira Negrouche, Agnes Agboton, Anthony Joseph, Avaes Mohammed, Siddhartha Bose, Aisling Fahey, Pangaea Poetry, Ladies of the Press, Ross Sutherland, Theo Chiotis, Hannah Silva, Andra Simons, Shama Rahman, Miriam Nash, Michael Vidon, Gareth Evans, and Elaine Mitchener.

Programme and booking information on the QMUL Centre for Poetry website: http://www.poetry.qmul.ac.uk/events/globeroad/152563.html.  Almost all events are free but booking is essential.