Preview of February Other Room reader Marcus Slease

Marcus Slease reads with Linda Black and Nikolai Duffy on 6th February for The Other Room at The Castle Hotel in Manchester. Entry is Free. It starts at 7pm. Click on the links.

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Recent Work Online:
I LEFT MY HEART IN SF AT THOUGHT CATALOG:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/
THE COWS SAID MU AT THOUGHT CATALOG:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/
MARYNOWANE NIEBO at DOGZPLOT
http://dogzplot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/marynowane-niebo-marcus-slease.html
FROM THE CIRCLE LINE AT HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE:
http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease
 TANGLING LLAMAS ON THE TRESSES OF THE SUN OVER AT POOR CLAUDIA:
http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_slease.php
A FLASH PLAY OVER AT EVERYDAY GENIUS:

 

POEM ART THREAT

Stinky Bear Press return to Mascara Bar for an evening of poetry inspired by the knavish Mark E. Smith and his legendary band The Fall.

Readers include: Becky Cremin, Marcus Slease, Richard Barrett, Juha Virtanen, Mike Weller, Jeff Hilson, Chris McCabe, Pat Phaggs, Sarah Crewe, Pascal O’Loughlin, Amy Key, Andrew Taylor.

Others to be confirmed.

Friday, 1 March 2013. Mascara Bar 72 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS. More here.

HI ZERO #18 CONTEMPORARY POETRY READINGS

IAN PATTERSON

Ian Patterson’s books include ‘Time to Get Here – Selected Poems 1969-2002,’ from Salt Publishing (2003), ‘Guernica and Total War,’ from Profile Books (2007) and a translation of the final volume of Proust’s ‘À la recherche du temps perdu,’ ‘Le Temps retrouvé,’ from Penguin (2003). Barque Press published the chapbook ‘The Glass Bell’ in 2009.

and

ANDREW DUNCAN

Andrew Duncan’s selected poems, ‘Anxiety Before Entering a Room,” was published by Salt in 2001; the critical collection ‘The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry’ in 2003. He has been the editor of the poetry journal Angel Exhaust since 1992.

and

RICHARD PARKER

Richard Parker is the author of ‘From the Mountain of California,’ from Openned Press (2011); he is the editor of Crater Press, a hand-bound and letter-pressed poetry pamphlet series based in London and Brighton and Turkey.

Upstairs @ THE HOPE, Queen’s Road, Brighton

7:30pm for an 8:00pm start

£4 for all

Shearsman reading

The first event in Shearsman’s 2013 Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 9 January at 7:30 pm, and features 3 poets from the USA:

  • Melissa Buckheit
  • Maxine Chernoff
  • Jaime Robles

The venue is Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. More details at the Shearsman site.

FEELINGS XMAS MELTDOWN

Thursday, December 20, 2012, 8:00pm. Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB.

An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poetry:
Amy De’Ath
Marianne Morris
Sophie Mayer
Jeff Hilson
Samantha Walton
!more tbc!

Film:
Liz Rosenfeld

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp

Welcoming the Child

Welcoming the Child – An installation of text and audio based on Hugo Ball’s ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ by New Free Theatre.
‘Welcoming the Child’ takes inspiration from Hugo Ball’s surrealist ‘Simultaneous Nativity Play’ in order to think through questions of textuality and performance in relation to the nativity play as a central although not-exactly-canonical feature of the landscape of western theatre.Visitors are welcome daily at any time from 17.00 – 21.00 and also for matinee performances on Sundays from 11.00 – 13.00, until December 23rd. St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA.

Aurelia Lassaque London book launch with Amy Key, SJ Fowler, Jessica Pujol and Nia Davies

Housmans Radical Booksellers, 5 Caledonian Road,  London, N1 9DX. Thursday, December 13, 7:00pm. A rare chance to hear Occitan poet Aurelia Lassaque read her poems from her new book – Solstice and other poems, translated into English by James Thomas. Featuring guest readings from Martin Solotruk, Amy Key, Jessica Pujol, SJ Fowler, Nia Davies and others tbc. Join Francis Boutle Publishing, Literature Across Frontiers and Maintenant for an evening of poetry at Housman’s radical bookshop, Kings Cross, London.

 

Intercapillary Places: December

Nina Power:
A talk on the philosophy and control of public space

Redell Olsen:
London launch of ‘Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel’ (Subpress, 2012)

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Thurs 13th Dec / Drinks from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.00pm
Arrive early from 5pm onwards to view the retrospective of work by Jannis Kounellis as well as Shezad Dawood’s ‘New Dream Machine Project’ in the winter pavilion

Tickets: £5/£4 conc – Free wine. More here.

Poets for Pussy Riot II – the videos

Films from the November 21st event in London, including this above by February 2013 Other Room reader Marcus Slease.

Tim Atkins – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSh7fTcerE
Ryan Ormonde & Becky Cremin – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimrOYTNAIc
Sascha Akhtar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saZcmbxcfxw
Jennifer Cooke – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajg5PRPE_I
Gareth Evans – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su8e7wX74Mk
myself – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcftO_V5dJY
Lucy Furlong – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxsHL2iQa0
Charlotte Geater – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNlYkAQN1M
Sarah Hesketh – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh6REtgv11g
Michael Horovitz – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nYIOV5tMEc
Jeff Hilson – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqoVOigij9Q
Kirsten Irving – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5XNrt9U-w
Marek Kazmierski & co – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyrHNDeQU8Y
Candy Parfitt – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhVLU3uAhnk
Alex MacDonald – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhVLU3uAhnk
Ziba Karbassi – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAH0kHsUQo
Deborah Pearson – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SonqzqYGO2E
Claire Potter – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcNacthFmuE
Frances Presley – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFb5V2ktWc
Shelagh Rowan-Legg – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFnVCuYBMOw
Fathieh Saudi – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QdOlSYFzM
Marcus Slease – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-VAH0vr90
Jon Stone – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGU9hq5hLbo
Jack Underwood – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0hy58zKOM
M. Ly-Eliot – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dCIL0IQkKY
Stephen Watts – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vndikc2cq8
Michael Zand – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u97ejjz0-WU
Tim Dooley – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsqlqGlm6LE
Francesca Lisette – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNxVp_bqM