Events
Poetry Reading @ Little Sparta, Sunday 26th May
Tickets are now available for a poetry reading at Little Sparta, the poetry garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay, on Sunday May 26th, with coaches running from Glasgow and Edinburgh. More here.
Electronic Voice Phenomena – Silva, Sutherland, Fowler, Outfit and more
Performance: Electronic Voice Phenomena
Wednesday May 22nd, 2013, 6:30 pm
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
£7/£5, booking advised.
Taking its name and inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s 1970s experiments into hearing unidentified voices in electronic interference, Electronic Voice Phenomena is a brand-new programme of performance works featuring seven of the country’s most innovative artists working across text, technology and physical performance. Part séance, part avant-garde cabaret, all new, the artists appearing include Outfit, Ross Sutherland, Hannah Silva and SJ Fowler plus special guests. Tickets £7/£5 advance, available here.
Our website is www.anthonyburgess.org; the project website is http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/
FEELINGS: SPRING UNSPRUNG
An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.
POETRY from Ian Davidson, Lisa Jeschke, Marcus Slease, Verity Spott
SAD DISCO with DJ Jonathan Kemp
*More TBC*
18 April, 8 to L8
£3
Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16
Website: www.feelingsfeelingsfeelings.com
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/125272874329815/?notif_t=plan_user_joined
Benefits – new reading series
Advanced notice of a new exciting reading series
BENEFITS
Time: 7:15 pm to Midnight
Time: 7:15 pm to Midnight
Venue: Power Lunches Arts Cafe (near Haggerston Tube)
Date: 22 May 2013
Poets:
Johanna Linsley/Jonny Liron (collaborative performance)
Lucy Harvest Clarke
Prudence Chamberlain
Tom Bamford
Chris Goode
Will Rowe
Robert Kiely
Geraldine Bhoyroo
Improvised music by Narcoleptic Centaur
Possibly a short video piece by non-present Sam Walton and Jow Lindsay
With more poets, music and speakers to come.
The Other Room – tonight
Syndicate # 2
15th April, 6.45-9pm, at Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB.
- Bram E. Gieben
- Justin Katko
- Lisa Otty
- Jo L Walton
Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
In June 2013, Amy Cutler will be putting on a free public exhibition called Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig, a line by Scottish poet Sorley Maclean. It will be on the topic of forests, history, and memory, and will range between natural history (specimens and found artefacts), social history (archival texts, photographs, and samples from museum collections), and art (book works, wood works, and installations). The exhibition will take place at a Grade 1 listed belfry in London (E2 9PA), which is also a community art gallery.
The project needs funds to ensure the safety and appropriate display and transport of the objects, which will allow the museums and artists to loan them. You can support the project via Kickstarter.
Militant Politics and Poetry
Birkbeck College, 18th May 2013, 10am-8pm.
General Invitation
This is a follow-up event to the Poetry and Revolution conference. The aim is to take discussion further and link it specifically to militant political action.
The format will be different: A one-day event with an on-going plenary session and a total of around 30 people attending. It will be organised as 2 round tables, each with six speakers presenting initial 5-10 minute stances, followed by discussion, with a view to reaching conclusions and decisions that relate to action, not simply to debate. We will aim to produce a document.
Questions/themes to be addressed
1. What is the situation in the UK now?
2. Poetry, violence, the law. How can our work meet the violence of capital? What is the specific violence of the situation? Can poetry have its own specific violence?
3. How does our relation to our work and the work of others become changed in militant action?
4. At what points in the class struggle can poetry intervene at this moment?
5. In what militant actions and situations can we intervene? In what ways? What is poetic thought in relation to struggle?
6. What types of agitprop should we be engaging in? See Benjamin’s ‘One Way Street’. Leafleting, propaganda? Directed to whom?
7. Would it be useful to organise ourselves? In what way? e.g. form a faction; produce agitprop material; create a website; produce collective statements for website, perhaps weekly.
Speakers
Justin Katko, Jennifer Cooke, Keston Sutherland, Sean Bonney, Stephen Watts, Harry Gilonis, Danny Hayward, Sam Walton, Zoe Sutherland, Will Rowe, Jow Lindsay, David Grundy
Xing the Line
Thursday, April 4, 7:30pm. The Apple Tree Clerkenwell, 45 Mount Pleasant, London, WC1X 0AE. Three sound poets:
- Jaap Blonk
- Ollie Evans
- Holly Pester
Allen Fisher: Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit.
7pm, Thursday, 28th March, Royal Holloway University of London, room F3, 2 Gower Street, London WC1B 3RA.
WFN
The next meeting of the Writers Forum is Saturday, March 30th, 2-4 pm at Madlab in Edge Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Bring a poem by someone you like, then one of your own. Bring photocopies if possible.
Marcus Slease reading at The Other Room, February 2013
Marcus Slease’s recent reading at The Other Room
DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM – MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA
DESIGN FOR LIVING: Sunday March 24 7:30 PM
MILES CHAMPION, WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA
WILLIAM FULLER, JOE LUNA, MILES CHAMPION
William Fuller’s most recent books are Sadly,
Watchword, and Hallucination, all from Flood Editions. Quorum will be published
next month by Seagull Books. He has worked at a Chicago trust company for the
last thirty years; this is his first reading in NYC since the Ear Inn in
1990.
Miles Champion’s How to Laugh is forthcoming from Adventures in
Poetry. His book-length illustrated interview with Trevor Winkfield, How I
Became a Painter, should be out soon from Pressed Wafer. Other books include
Compositional Bonbons Placate, Sore Models, Three Bell Zero, and Eventually. He
lives in Brooklyn.
Joe Luna lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs the Hi
Zero poetry reading series and edits Hi Zero magazine. He is the author of
ASTROTURF (Hi Zero, 2013), and A Great Sadness (Otting Editions,
2013).
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THE DARK WOULD language art anthology
THE DARK WOULD language art anthology
Launch at Whitechapel Gallery 11April, 7.30-9 pm
£4/3 (concs)
Join us in the Whitechapel Gallery, London, for the launch of a pioneering anthology of text artists and poets, with talks/readings by artist Simon Patterson and poets Caroline Bergvall and Tony Lopez.
THE DARK WOULD gathers work by over 100 contributors including some of the most noted artists and poets alive today: Richard Long, Jenny Holzer, Fiona Banner, Maggie O’ Sullivan, Tacita Dean, Tom Phillips, Tom Raworth, Nja Mahdaoui, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Tsang Kin-Wah, Charles Bernstein and many, many more.
This is a moment in time when poets and many artists share the same primary material: language. Conceptual art, vispo, text art, outsider art, conceptual poetry, flarf, concrete poetry, live art, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound scores… THE DARK WOULD is a compelling document of now, alchemising text into art into text.
To order tickets go here.
THE DARK WOULD comes in two volumes, one paper and one virtual, sold both together for £29.99, published by Apple Pie Editions.
Runnymede Literary Festival
Saturday 23 March
1.0 – 2.00: Simon Smith, Adrian Clarke, S.J. Fowler
2.00-3.00: Redell Olsen, Drew Milne, Stephen Mooney
3.15-4.15: Jennie Coles, Rachel Dakin, Annie Runkle, Juliet Troy, Emma Wootton
4.15-5.15: Jeff Hilson, Nata Raha, Sophie Robinson
5.15-6.15: Will Rowe, Prue Chamberlain, Robert Hampson
6.15-7.15: David Herd, David Miller, Frances Presley
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1X 9NG
King’s Cross Underground
All events Free
LikeThisPress in Lancaster
- Jennifer Copley
- Nikolai Duffy
- Ian Seed
Tuesday 19th March. 7.30 at The Gregson Arts and Community Centre, (Olive Bar), 33 Moorgate, Moor Lane, Lancaster, LA1 3PY.
Free entrance. Open bar. Books to browse and buy.
Port of Call: Poetics, Translation and Cultural Transmission
The University of Liverpool’s ‘Port of Call’ international poetry reading series features eight international poets and translators from India, Singapore, Canada, Morocco, France and the United States for an exciting programme of readings and discussions.
March 14th, 5-6pm: Singaporean poet Alvin Pang and British poet James Byrne (translator of Burmese poetry) will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
March 21st, 5-6pm: Belarussian poet Valzhyna Mort and Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson will read for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
April 24th,5-6pm: American poet Marilyn Hacker and Moroccan poet Rachida Madani will read for 25 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
May 8th, 5-6pm: Canadian poet Priscila Uppal with read with British-Indian poet Tishani Doshi for 20 minutes each followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.
More here.
Syndicate
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:30.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
The first installment of new media poetry night Syndicate explores the meaning of authorship and identity in a digital context in an evening of poetry readings, music, discussions and web-art screenings.
Sophie Robinson is a London-based poet who is currently working on a long poem about Soviet space travel. She’s interested in the experimental sonnet, contemporary revisions of lyric, and queer space and time. Sophie was Poet in Residence at the V&A in 2011.
Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet with an interest in digital poetics. Tonight, he’ll share works made using Chris Westbury’s ‘user-configurable dynamic textual projective surface’ JanusNode, and wrestle with their critical and theoretical contexts.
Dorothy Butchard is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh who is exploring the ramifications of new media for established narrative techniques and the representation of marginal communities in literary space. She’ll be curating two pieces of digital art and sharing ideas from her research.
Syndicate will close with Edinburgh poet and musician Illiop, whose electronic music is often reminiscent of the call of the Namaqua rainfrog, and/or the sound of a hundred ribbons tied to industrial machines: tonight it will be reminiscent of the voices we’ve just heard. Syndicate brings together writers, musicians, artists and researchers working in and in response to digital technologies, new media and evolving network practices. It is organised by Lila Matsumoto, Jo L Walton and Samantha Walton, in collaboration with Inspace.
More here.
The Villainelle Poetry Club
Wednesday 13 March 7:30pm. The Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale Street, Liverpool, L2 2JH.
Readings from:
- Matt Fallaize
- Steven Waling
- Bobby Parker
- Chris Moore
More here.
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