Events

Tom Chivers & SJ Fowler Double Launch

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Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ .

Wednesday 26th February
7pm (reading commencing at 7.30)
FREE

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Flood Drain
Tom Chivers
“I had a dream: a drift
on the spirit-level of a river
or a drain or a dyke
being a river in the clothing
of a straight edge”

Inspired by the extraordinary dream visions of the medieval poets and catalysed by a two-day exploration of the liminal terrain of the River Hull floodplain, contemporary writer Tom Chivers has crafted a long poem that meditates on the dual themes of dreaming and drainage.

Annexe is publishing Flood Drain as a limited edition two-tone pamphlet and cartographic artifact of Chivers’ drift along the River Hull.

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Whale Hunt
SJ Fowler
“Time began with a bear then it became a Viking
family tree over grandfather to all of us (that matter)
the polite, the gentle born of the power to display force
but choosing not to do so in company resounds its glow”
Poet and vangardist, SJ Fowler, strives to encounter and confront all disciplines in the poetic tradition. His latest work starts from a root of Norse mythology and carves a path through contemporary poetics and language construction.

Whale Hunt, part of the Introducing series, is a curated section of Fowler’s Vikings work and is published as an illustrated pamphlet.

More here.

Launch of Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Vol 2

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Reality Street published Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. Extending the account through the following decade, a new volume, Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91), once again edited by Alan Halsey, collects poems and sequences from a prolific period in Bill’s life that originally appeared in very small editions. The 426-page volume, publication of which was enabled by subscriptions from 120 supporters, also includes a section of uncollected or previously unpublished poems. The editor provides bibliographical and textual notes.

The book will be launched on Saturday 1st March at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB. Selections from Bill’s work will be read by poets Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Harry Gilonis, Alan Halsey, Mendoza, Geraldine Monk and Robert Sheppard. Copies of both Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91) and Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be on sale at a reduced price. The event starts at 7.00pm, readings at 7.30.

Email info@realitystreet.co.uk to book your place.

Matvei Yankelevich Reading @ Birkbeck

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Matvei Yankelevich Reading @ BBK (Monday 10 February 2014)

The CPRC Birkbeck welcomes Matvei Yankelevich

Monday 10 February 2014

7.30 pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.

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Matvei is a poet, translator of Russian poetry, and one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn, NY). This is a great opportunity to hear him reading from his own work.

His books include Boris by the Sea (Octopus, 2009) and Alpha Donut (United Artists, 2012), and he have a book-length poem coming out with Black Square Editions later this year. He also translated Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook / Duckworth, 2007; paperback, 2009).

All welcome – free entry

Do check out the CPRC events page for details of this and other upcoming events at Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/events/

Blue Bus – Sharon Morris, Burt Kimmelman and Jeremy Hilton

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Sharon Morris, Burt Kimmelman and Jeremy Hilton, on Wednesday 5th February, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-fifth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Jeremy Hilton is a poet, novelist, and composer of contemporary chamber music. He was born in 1945 near Manchester, and has degrees from Cambridge and Bangor Universities. He worked as a social worker for nearly 30 years. His poems have been published worldwide in magazines and anthologies since the 1960s, and he has published 12 collections with the alternative presses, including Shadow Engineering (Galloping Dog, 1991), Slipstream (Ripostes, 2003) and Lighting Up Time (Troubador, 2007). His first published novel, A Sound Like Angels Weeping, appeared from Brimstone Press in 2013. From 1995 – 2012 he published and edited the radical poetry magazine, Fire, which he co-founded with Chris Ozzard. His String Quartet no.1 was performed in concert in North London in March 2012.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Burt Kimmelman has published eight collections of poetry: Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2013 (BlazeVOX, 2013), The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011), As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007), Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), and Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992).Kimmelman has also published a number of books of literary criticism, including The “Winter Mind”: William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), and scores of essays on medieval, modern, or contemporary poetry. In the 1980s and 1990s he was senior editor of the now-defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. Some interviews of Kimmelman are available online: with Tom Fink in Jacket (text), and with George Spencer at Poetry Thin Air (video). Kimmelman teaches literary and cultural studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Born in west Wales, Sharon Morris is a poet and artist who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she is currently head of the doctoral programme. Her recent artworks include film-poems, and performance readings with video projection. False Spring, her first collection was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood Prize, 2007, and her second collection, Gospel Oak was published by Enitharmon Press in 2013.

Materials

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The next reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, 23 January, in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm. An EXTENSIVE SOLO READING! Justin Katko will read
from Songs for One Occasion (Critical Documents, 2012), and new work. — ‘COMRADE! Before / Us! The deep time!’

Gavin Selerie: a preview

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Gavin Selerie will perform at the next Other Room on Wednesday, 5th February. 7 PM start, free entry. The other readers are Frances Presley and Chris Stephenson, with preview of both to follow in the next few weeks. For a flavour of Gavin’s work, watch this clip of his reading at Xing the Line in July 2012, browse his page at Archive of the Now, or his author page at Shearsman.

Bio.

Gavin Selerie was born in London, where he still lives. He taught at Birkbeck, University of London for many years. His books include Azimuth (1984), Roxy (1996) and Le Fanu’s Ghost (2006)—all long sequences with linked units. Music’s Duel: New and Selected Poems 1972-2008 was published by Shearsman in 2009. This includes a good deal of fugitive material, besides more widely available work. Selerie has collaborated with the writer and artist Alan Halsey, notably in the book Days of ’49 (1999). His work has appeared in anthologies such as The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British & Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008). His poems generally involve a layering of voices through history and landscape. He has written extensively about London, reflecting his roots (an Italian family in Soho and an English family of wood-carvers). He has been a core member of the London poetry scene since the 1970s. There is frequently a concrete dimension to his work and he was featured in the recent Visual Poetics exhibition at the Poetry Library, London. Selerie is currently working on a large project, Hariot Double, which juxtaposes renaissance and modern elements. He sometimes performs with musicians, and this work-in-progress deals partly with the British jazz scene.

 

Reality Street Live

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Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 19:30 until 22:00. Electric Palace, 39a High Street, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3ER.

Philip Terry – A reading by the author of tapestry, an extraordinary novel retelling the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the Bayeux Tapestry’s English embroiderers. Tapestry was shortlisted for the inaugural 2013 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction.

Ken Edwards – The publisher of Reality Street reads from his collection of fictions Down With Beauty and from Bardo, a reimagining of the Tibetan Book of the Dead set in Hastings.

Elaine Edwards – Co-founder with Ken Edwards of local band The Moors, Elaine will perform on flute and accordion.

Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image

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This conference Beyond the Cut-up: William S. Burroughs and the Image will explore new theoretical interventions and accounts of Burroughs’s ideas of the image, its effects and modes of operation, its impact on human consciousness, its complex embedding within textual and other fields, its psychological and ideological transformations of perception.

William S. Burroughs’s complex and provocative uses of the image challenge critical and theoretical orthodoxies. His works in writing, visual arts, cut-up and collage, painting, assemblage, photography, and in sonic arts, constantly return in multiple ways to a detailed and politically urgent enquiry into the nature and effects of the image, the word-as-image, and beyond.

Critical work on Burroughs’s art has hitherto focused mainly on his uses of cut-up techniques. However, his works offer very diverse responses to the multiple political and emotional functions of images in relation to modern and postmodern societies of control, and enable explorations of the status and potentials of the artist as agent within these contexts. These themes are insistent Burroughsian concerns.

At The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 – 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW.

The Blue Bus January – Paul Buck, Paul Holman and Jaime Robles

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present an event featuring poetry by Paul Buck, Paul Holman and Jaime Robles, on Tuesday 7th January, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-fourth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.
Paul Buck’s first book was Pimot (1968), and whilst he holds a fondness for all his books he might note re/qui/re(qui)re (1975), Lust (1976), Violations (1979), No title (1991), Walking into Myself (1995), Lisbon (2002), Spread Wide (2006)… along with his editing of Curtains through the 1970s and various off-shoots here and abroad… and his divertissements in film, theatre and music (albums with 48 Cameras, Marc Almond, Melinda Miel…). And not to forget countless books co-translated with his wife, Catherine Petit. Recent publishing includes A Public Intimacy (BookWorks), a text that strip-searches scrapbooks to expose autobiography and more, and Performance (Omnibus), a full-length biography of the Cammell/Roeg film, itself destined to be filmed. Currently working on what purports to be a fiction written through film criticism, and editing Disappearing Curtains, a sudden final issue of his magazine, using the exhibition at Focal Point Gallery as the core of the volume. Never wishing to escape presenting others, he is editing, with Catherine Petit, a series of books, under the banner Vauxhall&Company, to appear from Cabinet Gallery, that will publish translations by Pierre Klossowski, Colette Thomas, Bernard Noël, Georges Bataille, Pierre Guyotat and others, alongside works by himself, Stephen Barber & others that inflame and ravage on the boundaries of poetry, prose and theatre.
Paul Holman is the author of The Memory of the Drift. Books I-IV are available from Shearsman. A fifth book, Tara Morgana, is currently in preparation from Scarlet Imprint (http://www.scarletimprint.com/), who have also published his writing in their anthologies Datura and Mandragora. Work in progress can be found at http://paulholman.drupalgardens.com/. Material relating to Invisible Books, which he operates with Bridget Penney, is online at http://www.invisiblebooks.co.uk/.
Jaime Robles, a poet and book artist as well as reviewer, published her most recent book of poetry, Hoard, with Shearsman Books in January 2013. She has produced many of her texts as artist books, and her bookworks are in collections at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; The Beinecke Library, Yale University; and the Oulipo Archive in Paris, among others. Her poetry and reviews have been published in numerous magazines, among them Agenda, Conjunctions, New American Writing, Shadowtrain and Stride. She has written texts for several art song cycles and librettos for two one-act operas: Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), which was staged in 2012. She is a member of the poetry installation collective ExEgesis, located in Exeter, UK.
Forthcoming events will include Sharon Morris, Burt Kimmelman and Jeremy Hilton (5th February), Elaine Randell, Robert Hampson and Joanne Ashcroft (18th March), Holly Pester, Doug Jones and Keith Jebb (15th April), Alan Halsey, Frances Presley and Ken White/David Miller (13th May), and Helen Calcutt, James Davies, Lawrence Upton, Stephen Emmerson, Sarah Kelly, Juliet Troy, Robert Vas Dias and others.