Events

CAESURA #30: Third birthday

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17th April, 19:30.
The Artisan Bar, Edinburgh, EH7 5BQ.
Celebrating three years of exploring the recesses language and sound through poetry, music and art with a return to our auld haunt – upstairs at The Artisan on London Road.

The event will feature an avant radge poet, a Glasgow-based experimental writer, a performance from an actor-provocateur and some words and noise from a lanky jive merchant that is normally (perhaps mercifully) constrained to short bursts.

That is Calum Rodger, Katy Hastie, Jamie Scott Gordon and GS Smith.

w/ more to be announced!
CALUM RODGER

Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet working online, on the page and in performance. His first pamphlet

‘Know Yr Stuff: Poems on Hedonism’ was published in 2014 by Tapsalteerie with limited edition booklet

Glasgow Flourishes (of a poem first performed at TEDxGlasgow) following later that year.

He runs live poetry night VERSE HEARSE with Stewart Sanderson, is currently finishing a PhD on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay at the University of Glasgow, and is a contributor to I ♥ E-Poetry and Glasgow Review of Books. Previous collaborators include artists, musicians, software developers, theatre directors, charities and a chef.

He likes limit-experiences, metaphysics and retro video games, and he blogs at All Real Culture Is Free.
-www.allrealcultureisfree.wordpress.com
KATY HASTIE

Katy Hastie is a new writer learning her stuff at Glasgow Uni.

She’ll do anything to get a laugh, cough, tear or a moment of your time: cut-ups, poems, short stories, flash fiction, radio drama and essays.

Places she’s tried not to waste that attention include: Rally and Broad, Fail Better, SubCity radio and Glasgow to Saturn.
JAMIE SCOTT GORDON

Jamie is a Scottish actor, working in film and theatre.

He enjoyed a busy 2014 making films in the UK and America. He looks forward to the release of five films in 2015.

He is currently co-writing his first feature for Hex Media and is in pre-production with his own short film.
GS SMITH

Edinburgh-native GS Smith is a writer and curator.

He has created word-filled egg filled installations in abandoned vaults, farcical pseudo-lectures on abnormal psychology and various collaborative pieces with poets, actors, artists and musicians. In May some of his poems will be turned into interactive computer games in a performance for European Literature Night.

He has curated two exhibitions of visual poetry – show&tell (2013) and Palimpcyst (2014) – and since 2012 he has run the reading series CAESURA.

Cemetery Romance

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Czech artist, writer and dramatist Miloslav Vojtíšek was joined by a series of contemporary British poets for a unique literary tour of the magnificent Kensal Green Cemetery. S.d.Ch. who has worked for many years as a grave digger will explain the art of exhumation, while other artists including Emily Berry, Alex MacDonald, James Davies & Tom Jenks presented their work each next to the grave of a famous figure (William Thackeray, Isambard Brunel, Harold Pinter, JG Ballard), throughout the beautiful Gothic surroundings of one of London’s magnificent seven cemeteries. More at the Enemies site.

Lost avant gardes

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Free public lectures (no booking required) to be held at Gulliver’s 109 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, M4 1LW
7 pm, Monday 20th April

The British Experimental Novelists of the 1960s

Joseph Darlington

For all the excesses of 1960s alternative culture, the British literary scene of the period was surprisingly dismissive of experimental approaches. This talk aims at bringing to life the history of an avant garde movement which sought to revolutionise the novel form and was largely sidelined and ignored for its trouble. Individual authors, particularly B.S. Johnson and Ann Quin, are only now being recognised for their contributions to literature, and this will be the first lecture to engage with the group surrounding them as a whole. Based on four years of original archive-based research, a picture is now emerging of a group committed to tearing down Victorian traditions and constructing in their place a new set of fictional forms.

Mark Greenwood: A Preview

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Lots of examples of Mark’s work are available on his website such as:

IS/THIS/HIS. a collaboration between Alastair MacLennan, Bean and Mark Greenwood. Three figures slowly unravel white wool for three hours. Inscription, testing of material, knots and the generation of trace configures an immediate and sustained public utterance.

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Mark will perform at The Other Room 7th birthday, 30th April.

For more details of the night see the poster in the middle column.

Word’s Work

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27 April, 19:00–22:00.& Model, 19 East Parade, Leeds, LS1 2BH.

Five diverse writers from UK and Ireland are brought together to read and perform previously published essays, poetry and sound works on the top floor of &Model gallery in Leeds.
Published and artist-published books, zines and audio will be on display and for sale during the evening with readings and performances by

Amy Cutler (Leeds),
Stephen Emmerson (London),
Megan Nolan (Dublin),
Nat Raha (London) and
Nathan Walker (York).

Free Entry and Donations Bar.
Word’s Work is organised by Matt Cole, Chris Stephenson and Claire Potter.

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Amy Cutler is a writer, curator and post doctoral fellow at the University of Leeds where she researches environmental history, historical geography, and modern British poetry. Amy is also the co-founder of the award winning cultural film program PASSENGER FILMS. amycutler.wordpress.com

Stephen Emmerson’s current practice investigates, space, performance, and the placebo effect. His collections include: ‘A never ending poem…’ (Zimzalla) ‘Telegraphic Transcriptions’ (Dept Press / Stranger Press), ‘No Ideas but in Things’ (Dark Windows Press), ‘Stephen Emmerson’s Poetry Wholes’ (If P then Q), and ‘Letters to Verlaine (Deep White Sound). His work has been exhibited at Albion, The Dark Would, Visual Poetics at the South Bank Centre, Pharmacopoetics, Farringdon Factory, Illuminations, and Lorem Ipsum. stephenemmerson.wordpress.com

Megan Nolan is based in Dublin, where she has written poetry, stand up comedy, and freelance journalism. She is currently focused on creative non-fiction and the confessional essay. Megan recently participated in Morgan Quintance’s radio show ‘Studio Visit’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, due to be broadcast on Resonance FM this summer. megannolanwriting.tumblr.com

Nat Raha lives in South London. Her poetry includes countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010) and pamphlets including ‘radio / threat’ (sociopathetic distribution, 2014) and ‘mute exterior intimate’ (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Tripwire, Elderly, Materials and Cordite Poetry Review, and has performed her work internationally. She’s currently undertaking a PhD on Marxism, queer theory and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex, UK. sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.co.uk

Nathan Walker is an artist, curator and writer. His work investigates writing and speaking in and as performance. Primarily working in the fields of performance and action art, Nathan’s works explores expanded concepts of writing, including durational writing and sound poetry. His work also extends into online projects that consider the event of performance in electronic poetry. Alongside artist Victoria Gray he is co-director of Oui Performance an artist-led organisation dedicated to research and presentation of performance art.
nathan-walker.co.uk

UEA Poetry Festival now booking

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The Inaugural UEA POETRY FESTIVAL

Starring

ANDREA BRADY
FRANCESCA LISETTE
REBECCA PERRY
SAM SOLOMON
JULIANA SPAHR
SAMANTHA WALTON
+ more tba

Friday 17 April: 18.00 till late (venue tbc.)
Saturday 18 April: 13.00 -23.00 (UEA Drama Studio)

Friday night: entrance free
Saturday: £10 waged, £5 unwaged

For more details, see UEA POETICS PROJECT:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/research/research-centres-and-projects/poetics

Enemigos: a Mexican Enemies project

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April Tues 14th : 7.30pm : Rich Mix Arts Centre: Main Space : Free Entry
in partnership with the British Council, the London Book Fair & Conaculta

New collaborations from Rocio Ceron & Holly Pester, Nell Leyshon & Carmen Buellosa, Adriana Diaz Enciso & Fabian Peake, and Amanda de la Garza & SJ Fowler. Also the launch of the long awaited Enemigos anthology.

Co-curated by SJ Fowler and Rocio Ceron. More here.

A Clockwork Orange: Re-typed

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A Clockwork Orange: Re-typed
Monday, March 16th – Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Manchester Central Library
10.00 am – 4.00 pm | Free 

One typewriter. Six days. Two hundred and four pages. See Los-Angeles artist Tim Youd re-type Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange in full as part of his multi-year project to re-type one hundred 20th century classic novels. Exploring the ‘fetishisation of the lives and tools of authors’ Youd’s performance takes place on the same model typewriter it is believed Burgess used to type A Clockwork Orange. An accompanying exhibition, featuring Burgess’s typewriters and one of Tim’s earlier works (Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms) is open to the public in the Reading Room. Find out more about Tim’s work at timyoud.com

25 Edge Hill Poets/Ian Seed

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11th March 7.30 at The Rose Theatre, the Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk; £4.50

A Poetry Event of Two Halves

A Quick Fire First Set of Poetry to Celebrate 25 Years of Creative Writing at Edge Hill

Matt Fallaize

Alice Lenkiewicz

Bill Bulloch

Natasha Borton

Scott Thurston

Adam Hampton

Joanne Ashcroft

Tom Jenks

(All these poets are featured on Robert Sheppard’s blog. Go to for summary and links to all the poets

http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/twenty-five-years-of-creative-writing.html

 

Followed by

11th March ROSE READING Ian Seed

Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chester. He has lived and worked in different countries, including Italy, France and Poland. His poetry, prose poetry, fiction, reviews and translations have appeared in such journals as Blackbox Manifold, Free Verse, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The North, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tears in the Fence. Seed’s first full-length collection, Anonymous Intruder, was published by Shearsman in 2009. Shearsman have also published his collections Shifting Registers (2011) and Makers of Empty Dreams (2014).

http://www.chester.ac.uk/departments/english/staff/academic-staff/dr-ian-seed

 

Peter Hughes poetry reading

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25 February, 6 PM. Clephan Building (De Montfort University), Leicester.

FREE reading by poet, artist and publisher Peter Hughes. All welcome but please book in advance by clicking on the link http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspxPeter has published a number of collections and his adaptations of Petrarch are due out this year. He is also the editor of the award-winning Oystercatcher Press.

Storm and Golden Sky

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Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!

Friday February 27th 2015

Claire Trévien is an Anglo-Breton poet, editor, reviewer, workshop leader and live literature producer.

She is the author of the pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery (Salt, 2011), and The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), which was longlisted in the Guardian First Book Award. The Shipwrecked House was co-commissioned as a one-woman show by Ledbury Festival and supported thanks to Arts Council Funding. It has been touring the UK this autumn, reviews can be found here.
Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including POETRY, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Magma, Under the Radar, Poetry Salzburg, The Forward Book of Poetry 2014 and Best British Poetry 2012.

She edits Sabotage Reviews, co-edits Verse Kraken, and co-organizes Penning Perfumes.

Luke Kennard is a poet and writer of fiction. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Exeter and lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham. He won an Eric Gregory award in 2005 for his first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers (Stride Books) which has since been re-issued by Salt as The Solex Brothers Redux. His second collection of poetry The Harbour Beyond the Movie was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007 making him the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the award. His third book, The Migraine Hotel, was published in by Salt in 2009 and a pamphlet, Planet-Shaped Horse, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2011 to critical acclaim.