Events
Reality Street launches
Dwelling by Richard Makin
“This is prose you must learn to experience, before you begin to interpret … The pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry: revised, corrected, disciplined, polished and then given their head.” – IAIN SINCLAIR
Head of a Man by John Gilmore
“I admire this spare, lean gem of a novel, so lyrical and evocative its brief prose fragments get into your head and stay there.” – GARY GEDDES
STONE SQUID experimental art space, 78 High Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34 3EL. Saturday 5 November 2011, 6:00pm, free admission – refreshments available.
More at the Reality Street site.
Polyply 14 > MEASURE
POLYply > 14: MEASURE
Jeff Hilson
Simon Jarvis
Zoë Skoulding
Fiona Templeton
Timothy Thornton
Thursday 10 November, 7pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
THE FOULE READINGS
Friday 28th October, 7.30pm. THE FOULE READINGS are a new series of contemporary poetry readings in Cambridge organised by undergraduates in English (Caitlín Doherty, Andrew Griffin, Connie Scozzaro and Tomas Weber)
- Frances Kruk
- Mike Wallace-Hadrill
- Ed Luker
- Caitlín Doherty
The Nihon Room, Pembroke College There’ll be free wine, a book table, a Foule publication & a cigarette break in a Japanese garden. It’s all free.
POLYproject 1: Poetry as Score
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, Wednesday 2nd November, 7.30pm (pre-concert discussion 6.30-7pm)
Jürg Frey – Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder – 2009/4
Michael Pisaro – A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger – Confidential Letter #7 (2011)
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
This event launches Sound and Music’s Cut & Splice Grúndelweiser festival, which runs from 3 to 6 November:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/cut-splice-grundelweiser
WFN
Saturday, November 5 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Madlab, Manchester.
WFN is an opportunity for innovative/experimental poets to present their work for feedback in a mutually supportive atmosphere. Ideally, please bring along copies of the work you intend to read for the other group members. Anyone who wants to come along but doesn’t want to read is also very welcome.
Hi Zero 8
Monday 31st October 2011, with Harry Gilonis & Sean Bonney, 8pm start, £4. The Hope, Queen’s Road (just down from the station), Brighton.
Harry Gilonis // Sean Bonney
Gilonis’ work spans decades of writing, composing and criticking, most recently producing some of the most crucial translations of Welsh, Irish, Chinese and Russian poetry on the black market. He has published reams, including (for starters) a stunning version of Mayakovsky’s “Order No. 2 to the Armies of the Arts” in Hi Zero 3.
Bonney is perhaps the foremost British poet of the violent fluctuations between activism and language, an arch and absolutely important thinker in verse that refuses to be thought without a fight. Sean’s _The Commons_ and _Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud_ are both out now.
You Call Him Doctor Jones!
Sat 22 October
7pm – 1am
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street
London E1 7EX
Join a host of poets, performers, musicians and comedians for a monkey-brain-packed adventure through 30 years of Indiana Jones. Expect Indy trivia quizzes, prizes, an impromptu archaeology seminar and giant boulders. There will be a professional eyelid painter so you can flutter a message to our own in-house Dr. Jones (with only minor risk of exposure to tomb-raiding Nazis). Bring along an object for the Museum of Antiquities, try your hand at brass-rubbing and guessing the weight of the Golden Idol, find out what Marian Ravenwood really thought of Jones, and be careful not to drink the blood of Kali Ma. If that’s not enough whip-cracking Indynerd action for you, the entertainment will be followed by our stylish Obi-Wan Club DJs until late.
Produced by Penned in the Margins in association with Bad Dates
LINEUP
Poetry & performance from Jack Underwood, Kirsten Irving, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Julia Bird, Chrissy Williams, SJ Fowler & Patrick Coyle
Music from Gwyneth Herbert
Comedy from Rich Sandling & Tom Bell
Performance publishing by Ladies of the Press*
Obi Wan Club DJs til late
PLUS
The Museum of Antiquities
Guess the weight of the Golden Idol
Lego Indiana Jones
Eyelid painting
Brass rubbing
Eyeball soup & special cocktails
TICKETS
£6.50 on the door
£5 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/134968
Reality Street at the Small Publishers’ Fair
REALITY STREET will be at the annual Small Publishers Fair in November over the weekend of Friday 11th-Saturday 12th November. It takes place in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Reality Street will be featuring the three new books in the Narrative Series that are being launched this autumn:
- Dwelling by Richard Makin
- Gero Nimo by Johan de Wit
- The Raft by Leopold Haas
On the Saturday, at 4pm, Richard Makin will launch his 672pp “anti-novel” Dwelling, and John Gilmore will (belatedly) launch his book Head of a Man, which was published at the beginning of this year.
Maggie O’Sullivan & Jennifer Pike Cobbing
The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, Wednesday 26th October 2011, 18:00-21:00.
Launch of the ‘Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan’, & launch/reading of Maggie O’Sullivan’s ‘murmur’ and Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s ‘The Conglomorization of Wot’.
Colin Herd: a preview
Colin Herd will read at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. For a flavour of his work, watch his reading at the Maintenant Slovakia event in London or read selections of his work in Blart and Streetcake. Or check out his images from the recent I AM NOT A POET festival in Edinburgh. Or his interviews with Steven Fowler and Kevin Killian.
The other readers are Jennifer Cooke and SJ Fowler.
Xing the Line – Stephen Emmerson & Holly Pester
Xing the Line, Thursday, October 27 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AE
Vanessa Place reading at The Other Room, September
Vanessa Place reads at our September 2011 event at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
Maintenant Camarade films
Films of the event at the Rich Mix centre near Brick Lane in London on 15th October are now online at the Maintenant site. As a taster, check out Tim Atkins and Marcus Slease.
Alan Halsey and Mick Beck performing Hugo Ball poems at September’s The Other Room
Halsey (vocals) and Beck (sax and bassoon) perform six poems by dada man Hugo Ball at The Other Room 28, September 2011.
Author Talks Series: Richard Price
Tuesday 25th October, 17.00-1800
As part of the University of Strathclyde Author Talks series the novelist and poet Richard Price will be returning to Strathclyde University, where he was a student twenty-five years ago, to give a reading from a range of his work – fiction and poetry.
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Free entry and refreshments will be provided.
Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=124120641023966
Frederick J Fredericks
11am – 4pm, Sunday 30th October, 2011
Frederick J Fredericks is a free one day event taking place in the Brecon Beacons National Park on 30th October, 2011 as part of Powys Arts Month. The event comprises an artist-led journey on foot, to caves at Craig y Cilau National Nature Reserve. The event will include installations, performances, readings and improvised music. The project’s title is derived from 18th Century graffiti in the caves by Frederick J Fredericks.
Artists, Poets and Performers include:
- Susan Adams
- Stefhan Caddick
- Morag Colquhoun
- Lyndon Davies
- John Goodby
- Penny Hallas
- Graham Hartill
- Anthony Mellors
- Chris Nurse
- Gillian Stevens
- Team Sports (Matthew Lovett, Jimmy Ottley, Ian Watson)
- Scott Thurston
- Christopher Twigg
- Tessa Waite
On the day there will be two different walks to the caves.
Route A. from Llangattock is 3 kilometres over rugged terrain, with steep climbs. It’s suitable for energetic walkers. This is the guided walk setting out from Llangattock.
Route B is 1.5km to via a disused tramway – mainly level with some uneven ground. This route is unguided. Please make your own way to the caves and to see the work.
GLTI.CH Karaoke (LONDON event)
Meanwhile Space. O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road London, NW3 6LU.
A project that seeks to set up unnecessarily-elaborate portals of amateur singing, GLTI.CH Karaoke posits that there is discernible value & joy in:
1. the collective stumbling & frustrations met in the face of tech limits, language barriers & time zone differences
2. oblique experimentation &
3. embracing & folding in “errors” in future iterations versus seeking to “overcome” or eradicate them.
GLTI.CH asks to be written & rewritten as cracks, bruises & mistranslation errors gather & proliferate through pop songs & datastreams, as people are GLTI.CHed together.
More at the Facebook page and at the Meanwhile Space site.
SJ Fowler – a preview
SJ Fowler will be reading at the next Other Room on Wednesday 26th October at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park. You can read some of his work a the Voiceworks site and much more at his own site. Or watch a film of him reading at the launch of his collection Fights on Veer Publications.
Preview of Colin Herd to follow soon. Click here to read a preview of Jennifer Cooke.
Contemporary Innovative Poetry
The new series of the Research Seminar in Contemporary Innovative Poetry begins Wednesday, 19 October, at 6.00. Dr Jacob Edmond will talk on ‘A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature’
Room 264, Senate House, University of London, Russell Square. Free. All welcome.
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