Events

4somes: Veer Books Launch

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 8:00pm.

Poetry Library, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Veer Books will launch a new series of variously named publications featuring work by younger innovative writers, four at a time, called ‘VierSomes’ (or ‘4somes’ or ‘Quartets’ …)

This event will launch the series with readings from some of the featured authors:

Becky Cremin, Amy Evans, Edward Hardy, Danny Hayward, Frances Kruk, slmendoza, Nat Raha

Admission free but space is limited – to book a place guests must email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

VILLAINelle Poetry Club 1

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Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 19:30. Upstairs at the Ship and Mitre, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 2JH.

The first of Holdfire’s poetry reading series. Readings from Eleanor Rees, Neil Addison, Evan Jones and Erin Fitzgerald.

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Her second collection ‘Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009) is also a live performance for voice and harp which has toured in the North West. Rees works freelance as a poet in the community and is also currently studying for an AHRC funded Creative Writing PhD University of Exeter. She often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool. www.eleanorrees.info

Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010). Paralogues (Carcanet, 2012), his second collection, is out now.

Neil Fraser Addison is currently residing in Liverpool. His previous work includes The Everyday of Irma Kite (The Arthur Shilling Press), and Apocapulco (Salt) which was short-listed for the 2011 Michael Marks Award. His first full collection, Stealth-Exile-Inventory, is about to be published as a joint venture between go-Subsist & OWT Creative. His website is here.

James Harvey Memorial reading

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Veer Books / Xing the Line / Writers Forum Workshop (New Series) and The Blue Bus have come together to celebrate the life and poetry of James Harvey, who died last month.  This memorial reading will take place at Birkbeck College on Thursday 19th July, from 18.00-21.00. The address is Keynes Library, Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. (When you  come in to the foyer, ask the person on the front desk who will give directions – it’s a room on the first floor overlooking the square.) Readers/performers will include Carol Watts, Will Rowe, James Wilkes, matt martin, Jeff Hilson, Holly Pester, Michael Zand, Stephen Emmerson, Juliet Troy, John Gibbens, Keith Jebb, David Miller, Antony John, Edward Carey, Peter Philpott, S J Fowler, Elizabeth Guthrie, and The Children (Armorel Weston and John Gibbens).

Please note that this is a free event.
 
James Harvey
James Harvey (1966–2012) studied biology at UCL before becoming a full-time poet in the thriving experimental and innovative poetry community in London .
His interest in science, especially biology, extended into his poetry. James took part in a forum discussion with Rae Armantrout, Amy Catanzano, John Cayley, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Allen Fisher, Peter Middleton, Evelyn Reilly and Joan Retallack on the interaction of poetry and science, hosted by Jacket 2. He was fascinated by the potential of ‘science in poetry to dismantle existing structures, and then put them back together again, build them up “mechanically” while at the same time each level of complexity is acted upon equally through “the forces of nature,” questioning the integrity of the structure.’
The importance of ecology in his work is evident in one of his best poems, ‘Mackerelling’. This was published in Veer Away (Veer 2007) and subsequently became his first book (Intercapillary Editions 2009). The poem ‘is a movement through water … an exercise in naming as pattern’. As James explained: ‘Marguerite White sent me cardboard cuttings out in the shapes of sea birds she had used for one of her installations, I had been watching David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet and the idea for the poem came shortly after. At the back of my mind was also Bob Cobbing’s poem “alphabet of californian fishes” … one of my favourite poems.’
James was a regular at Writers Forum Workshop and many of his poems have a strong visual element, showing Cobbing’s influence. Part of his poem ‘Living Rock Ode’ (in Freaklung 2010) included a diagram of a marine plankton that he sounded when reading the poem. James read in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 with his work featuring in AND13 (Writers Forum 2010) produced to mark the event. Later he was part of Writers Forum Workshop (New Series), his work appearing in its first publication (Writers Forearm 2011).
Veer published a chapbook Temporary Structures in 2009 and included his work in Veer Off (2008) and Veer About (2011) in addition to Veer Away. He was published in the Openned magazine (2006) and Openned Issues 2006-07 (2008). In 2009, Openned brought out an e-pamphlet, Parts Composers, and Kater Murr’s press published a broadsheet From Marx’s Capital. James was featured in the anthology In the Company of Poets (Hearing Eye 2003).
James’s readings in London included the Blue Bus in 2008 with Nina Zivancevic and Vahni Capildeo and in 2010 with Harriet Tarlo, David Miller and Ken White. He read at Crossing the Line in 2009 with James Wilkes, Jon Clay, Antony John and Out to Lunch.
James was also part of a group of poets who travelled to Newcastle upon Tyne to celebrate Barry MacSweeney in a reading at Morden Tower in 2010. James read from his Japheth series, written in collaboration with Edinburgh-based poet Jow Lindsay. Other work appeared in Herbarium (2011), also with an associated reading, or were published online in Greatworks and Jacket, with work also appearing in Brittle Star magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review and the Morning Star.
 
James Harvey discussing poetry and science with other poets in Jacket 2 is here http://jacket2.org/features/archive?page=1
James Harvey’s poem ‘Mackerelling’ (2007) can be downloaded free from http://www.lulu.com/shop/james-harvey/mackerelling/ebook/product-4880571.html;jsessionid=2AF6BA9D292AC56685B11016B5DC1DCF  
Video of James Harvey reading in honour of Jennifer Pike-Cobbing in 2010 http://www.openned.com/writers-forum-jennifer/?currentPage=4  
Veer About (Veer 2011) can be downloaded free via http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer037  
James Harvey’s work in the Openned magazine (2006) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-magazine.html  
James Harvey’s work in Openned Issues 2006-07 (Openned 2008) is here http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/openned-issues-2006-2007.html  
James Harvey’s Parts Composers (Openned 2009) is here: http://www.openned.com/epubs/2009/9/28/parts-composers.html  
Video of James Harvey reading at Morden Tower in 2010 (including ‘Living Rock Ode’ and Japheth poems)

Ryan Ormonde – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Ryan Ormonde who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe, and Hazel Smith. See blog entries below for previews of Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe & Hazel Smith.

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Ryan Ormonde

is one of the four poet performers who collaborate as ‘press free press’ in various live publishing and writing projects; the others are Becky Cremin, Sejal Chad and Karen Sandhu. Alone, Ryan is interested in finding an intuitive writing method that is evidence of reading two or more different texts, or that is the written outcome of making a text from criteria suggested while sitting somewhere outside, or from walking around. Ryan has a chapbook and a book-book published with The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. The book-book is called ‘The of of the film of the book and the of of the book of the film’. Ryan is the longest serving member of staff at a certain West End cinema.

See his websites at :

http://poeticpracticejournal.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://www.pressfreepress.com/

 

Camarade III Videos

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Click on the urls to see the videos of the third in the Maintenant collaboration series

From the Rich mix, in Brick Lane, London, on Saturday night:

Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnLWfNlU_Y

Tom Chivers & Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXaBHH1NZc

Robert Sheppard & Jeff Hilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnA5PasOOs

Frances Kruk & Maria Ferencuhova http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkGkswlIno

Philip Terry & Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR8GQsZxNYk

Emma Bennett & Holly Pester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtAEIM5bPTI

Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGl6gy3lefQ

Simon Barrclough & Isobel Dixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmtbDpIlgE

David Berridge & Andy Spragg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDymTvATgkE

Marcus Slease & Richard Barrett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75XOG700TE

 

From the Nova festival, in Bignor Park, Sussex, on Sunday afternoon:

George Szirtes & Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qV9e7hT5M

Philip Terry & Tom Jenks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTZUk7K5uuM

Juha Virtanen & Robert Kiely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznBcPW4wDs

Richard Barrett & Marcus Slease http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdAHDn-Ego4

Frances Kruk & Maria Ferencuhova http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4evDyJvDreg

Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZuzwgMKEk

Andy Spragg & David Berridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RFOHz_iDms

Simon Barraclough & Isobel Dixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFYytlH_Ls

Emma Bennett & Holly Pester http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COo5N8-MbGk

postscript http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InWbshzV0F0

Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performers Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and Hazel Smith. Ryan Ormonde to follow. See blog entries below for Hazel Smith.

Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012

Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe are working for the third time on a collaboration commissioned by The Maintenant reading series.

Above is their current literary postcards project. More HERE

The second project HERE

And the first HERE

Chris McCabe

was born in Liverpool in 1977. His published books are The Hutton Inquiry (Salt, 2005), Zeppelins (Salt, 2008) and a play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf (Penned in the Margins 2010). He has also recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive. His third full collection, THE RESTRUCTURE, was published in May 2012. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London.

Tom Jenks

has two collections, A Priori and *, published by if p then q (http://ifpthenq.co.uk). His work has appeared in a range of digital and print publications including Department magazine, onedit, Cleaves, Blackbox Manifold and the 18s anthology. He organises the avant objects imprint zimZalla (http://zimzalla.co.uk) and co-organises The Other Room reading series and website (http://otherroom.org). Gnomes, a collaboration with Chris McCabe, was published by The Red Ceilings Press in 2011.

Hazel Smith – A Preview

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Preview of July 19th 2012 performer Hazel Smith who will perform at Leeds Gallery, Munro House, Leeds, 7pm. Entry is free and we’d love to see you there. Other performers are Ryan Ormonde and a collaboration between Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. Previews to follow.

Click the link for PRESS RELEASE_LEEDS 2012

Hazel Smith is active in the areas of poetry, performance and new media. Her work has appeared in numerous international literary magazines and in literary, musical and multimedia anthologies. She has published three volumes of poetry: Abstractly Represented: Poems and Performance Texts 1982-90, Butterfly Books, 1991; Keys Round her Tongue: short prose, poetry and performance texts Soma, 2000 and The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works, Tinfish Press, 2008 (accompanied by a CD-Rom of works with Roger Dean).

Hazel has also, with Roger Dean, made three CDs of her performance work, Poet Without Language, Rufus Records 1994; Nuraghic Echoes, Rufus Records, 1996 and Returning the Angles, Soma Recording and Publishing 2001. She has collaborated with Roger Dean on many ABC radio commissions including Poet Without Language, 1991, Nuraghic Echoes, 1994, The Erotics of Gossip, 2001, Returning the Angles 1998, for The Listening Room, and The Afterlives of Betsy Scott, 2007, for Airplay. Her performance collaborations, such as the writer the performer the program the madwoman 2004, the space of history 2006, Mid-Air Conversations 2006 and Minimal 2007 are showcased on many poetics websites such as PennSound (US), and in internet journals such as How2 (US). One of her collaborations with Roger Dean, Poet without Language, was nominated by the ABC for the Prix Italia in 1992.

Hazel is co-author with Roger Dean of numerous new media works, such as Wordstuffs: the city and the body, 1998, Intertwingling 1999, the egg the cart the horse the chicken 2004, soundAFFECTs 2004 (with Anne Brewster) and Time the Magician 2007. She has also collaborated on several occasions with visual artist Sieglinde Karl, and their joint work has been exhibited in many art galleries in Australia and overseas. She has performed her own work extensively nationally and internationally in Europe and Australasia. She has been co-recipient of numerous grants from the Australia Council, The Australian Film Commission and Arts Tasmania.

Some links to work:

the writer, the performer, the program, the madwoman

the egg, the cart, the horse, the chicken

wordstuffs

Experimental Sonnet Writing – Online Course

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James Davies will be teaching an online course for The Poetry School

Experimental Sonnet Writing

Tutor: James Davies

Day / Time: Thursdays, fortnightly, 7pm UK Time

Duration: 5 sessions

First Live Chat: 4 October

Price: £76, £67, £60

Level: open to all

The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading a small amount of the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will write your own 14 liners. Tasks will be based around sonnets written in the last hundred years or so (with a particular focus on the last fifty years).By the end of the course you will be inventing your own methods and processes and adding to this rich tradition. Students should have 5-10 of their own poems ready to work on which they are prepared to treat and manipulate; these need not be sonnets nor in any way complete.

We will be thinking about poets including: e.e. cummings, John Berryman, Man Ray, Matthew Welton, Ted Berrigan, Derek Henderson, Philip Terry, Jen Bervin, Tim Atkins, Tony Lopez, Juliana Spahr, Sarah Riggs

See www.poetryschool.com for more