Events

Art and Writing events Sept – Oct

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Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September, 11-6pm daily
Whitechapel Gallery, London
London Art Book Fair: Wild Pansy Press Portable Reading Room

“‘Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?’: a new work by Tamarin Norwood will be installed in the Portable Reading Room. Visitors are invited to contribute to a catalogue of popular reason, responding to questions drawn from the lyrics of popular songs.”
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-art-book-fair-2011
http://www.wildpansypress.com

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Sunday 25 September, 4-6pm
The Mews Project Space, 15C Osborn Street, London E1
Artists Books Weekend

“or-bits.com presents “On The Upgrade”, a new limited edition series in a box.
Contains new commissioned printed works by Patrick Coyle, Benedict Drew, Jamie George, Tamarin Norwood, Damien Roach and David Rule, each of which has been conceived as an extension of the work previously produced for the website.”
http://or-bits.com

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Wednesday 28 September, 6-8pm
Format at PMS Watershed, Bristol
Tamarin Norwood: Artist Talk

“Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. Her work addresses the possibility of reciprocation between art and writing; practice and everyday life; production and circulation. Projects usually take the form of performance, objects or text. In her talk she will suggest a few ways of framing her practice, discuss her methods and influences, and present some untested work for discussion.”
http://www.formatnetwork.com
http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/about-pervasive-media-studio

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Saturday 8 October 12-5pm
Spike Island, Bristol
LemonMelon Press at The Artists’ Books and Zine Fair

“’Limonade es war alles so grenzenlos.’ was one of Franz Kafka’s last sentences in his Aus den Gesprächsblättern published in Briefe 1902–1924. Cixous’s translation of Kafka’s sentence ‘Lemonade everything was so infinite.’ forms the basis of a series of seven titles written by seven different writers / artists – David Berridge, Julia Calver, Emma Cocker, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marit Münzberg, Tamarin Norwood and Mary Paterson.”
http://www.spike-island.org.uk/events/book_zine_fair
http://tinyurl.com/64zwong

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Saturday 15 October, 7pm
RichMix, Bethnal Green Rd London
Maintenant Poetry IX: The Camarade Project

“Nine pairs of Britain’s most vital poets read original collaborations, specifically written in partnership for this event: Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks, Jack Underwood & Sam Riviere, Holly Pester & Patrick Coyle, Tamarin Norwood & Emily Critchley, Tom Chivers & Ben Borek, James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq, Sean Bonnery & Jeff Hilson, Tim Aitkins & Marcus Slease, James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar. With Latvian, Macedonian, Russian poets Ilya Kaminsky, Igor Isakovski, Lidija Dimkovska, Anna Auzina, Karlis Verdins.”
http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/

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Saturday 22 October, 2-5pm
Tate Britain, London
BP Saturdays: Going Public
Tamarin Norwood: Doing Words with Things

“Encounter a collaborative visual conversation between a BSL poet and a sculptor of wire who are engaged in a series of symmetrical exchanges, leaving bundles of conversation discarded throughout the gallery.”
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/musicperform/24647.htm

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Saturday 15 October – Saturday 5 November
Soundfjord, London
Cast and Figment, curated by Matthew Mackisack

Including a re-broadcast and live discussion of my radio work “Musica Practica”, first broadcast on 1 and 5 February 2010 on Resonance 104.4FM.
http://www.soundfjord.org/

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The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life, published May 2011 in activate (Issue 1, Vol 1.)
http://www.thisisactivate.net/2011/05/20/the-inscription-of-art-and-everyday-life/

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www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk

WFN poetry workshop

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01 October · 14:00 – 17:00
Madlab
36-40 Edge Street
Manchester, United Kingdom

After the workshop this month:

Steven Waling on Charles Reznikoff: ‘Walking & Listening To New York’

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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.

Colin Watts / Judy Kendall / Ade Jackson

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Thursday 22 September 7.30-9.30pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane. Liverpool, L1 3BX
Come to a sparkling evening of poetry from two of the North West’s most outstanding poets.
Colin Watts reads from his latest collection Taking Down The Tree House (Headland, 2011), exploring real and imaginary worlds.
Judy Kendall’s poetry explores the intimate connections between physical, visual and interior worlds. Her most recent collection is Joy Change (Cinnamon, 2010).
Music by our resident musician Ade Jackson.
Admission £3/£2
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
0151 702 5324

Liverpool Poetry Cafe – supported by Arts Council England and The National Lottery

http://www.liverpoolpoetrycafe.com

Reader Programme for The Free Verse Book Fair, 24th September

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Readers at The Free Verse Book Fair organised by Charles Boyle

Location: Exmouth Market Centre, 24 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE.
Time: ‎10:00AM Saturday, September 24th10.30-11   

Ward Wood
                Sue Guiney and Peter Phillips      11-11.45   Michael Horovitz

12-12.30 Happenstance Press  
 Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving, Lorna Dowell, Peter Daniels, Clare Best and D A Prince

12.30-1 Nine Arches Press 
 Ruth Larbey and Matt Merritt

1-1.30   Reality Street 
 Jim Goar and James Davies

1.30-2   Rack Press 
 Roisin Tierney, Nicholas Murray and Katy Evans-Bush

2-2.30   CB Editions
Christopher Reid and Nancy Gafford   

2.30-3   Carcanet
      Will Eaves and Ian Pindar

3-3.30   if p then q
Lucy Harvest Clarke and Tom Jenks

3.30-4   Flipped Eye
Max Wallis and Kate McLoughlin

4-4.30   Penned in the Margins
Gemma Seltzer and Siddhartha Bose

4.30-5   Waterloo Press
Jeremy Reed, Niall McDevitt and Philip Ruthen

Double Change winter reading series

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If in Paris…

Double Change vous propose 4 lectures en septembre et octobre :

Vendredi 30 septembre, 19h00, Point Ephémère : Vanessa Place et Emilie Notéris

Lundi 10 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Lynn Crawford et Harry Mathews

Lundi 17 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : Rae Armantrout et Joe Ross

Jeudi 20 octobre, 19h30, galerie éof : soirée en marge du colloque Gertrude Stein (20-21 oct, Grand Palais) avec Charles Bernstein, Thalia Field & Abigail Lang, Joan Retallack et Jean-Marie Gleize.

Juxtavoices in Salford

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ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE plus JUXTAVOICES

 

Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere is an improvising rock group featuring

 

Martin Archer – organ, saxophones

Chris Bywater – keyboards, laptop

Terry Todd – bass guitar

Sarah Henderson – violin

Walt Shaw – percussion

Steve Dinsdale – percussion

 

Initial starting point for the group’s direction was the music of Magma, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Faust and Amon Duul.

 

Opening group Juxtavoices is Martin Archer’s 25+ voice semi-improvising choir which has been amazing and surprising audiences in unexpected locations across the region since starting to perform in early 2011.  By turns musical, poetic, theatrical and outrageous, this group is genuinely not like anything else you will have heard

 

 

Wed 12th October

THE HARLEY

Glossop Road, Sheffield

8.30 pm

£5 / £3 on the door

 

Wed 19th October

ISLINGTON MILL

James Street, Salford M3 5HW

8.30 pm

£6 / £4 on the door

Venue 07813 276 808

CRITICAL SCREE PUNCH LAUNCH. Poetry with Crot / Kruk / Relax / Walton

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9th September, 7 pm start. Wash Bar on the Mound, Edinburgh. Bios and other information can be found on Facebook.

FRANCIS CROT
RODNEY RELAX
SAMANTHA WALTON
plus readings from FRANCES KRUK

BOOK LAUNCH:

FRANCIS CROT | HAX
London, 2011 — Hackney invades the City.

FRANCES KRUK | DOWN YOU GO, OR ,NÉGATION de BRUIT (APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBERT)
“The most pathetic poem is small people on fire”

POSIE RIDER | CITY BREAK WEEKEND SONGS
Join the Praxis Suffragettes on a weekend of civic unrest in Stratford-upon-Avon. Meet at the Megabus terminal, Victoria Coach Station. Don’t forget your hammer, plus small change for an M&S lunch. Vagina Cakes all round (gluten free).

SCREE
SCREE is an arts+writing little magazine based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The magazine is edited by Lila Matsumoto and was inspired by the tradition of hand-made poetry magazines from the late 1950s/early 1960s e.g. Migrant, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., Resuscitator, and Black Mountain Review, among many others.

Part of CONVERSIFY:

More ConVersify readings on Saturday & Sunday night, see!:
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108791099225598
Conference site: http://www.conversify.co.uk/

Openned book launch: The Commons

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  • Wednesday 21st September, 7.30pm;
  • Admission is FREE;
  • Carnivale, 2 White Church Ln., London E1 7QR (opposite Aldgate East Tube station (Whitechapel Gallery exit);
  • Readings from Sean Bonney, Ulli Freer, Nat Raha, Steve Willey;
  • A special edition run of The Commons will be available, featuring a couple of extra goodies.

Flyer with full line-up now available from openned.com.

Conversify

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There are still a small numbers of tickets left for the conference Conversify: Poetry, Politics and Form taking place at the University of Edinburgh on the 10th and 11th of September 2011. The keynote speakers are Esther Leslie, Sean Bonney and nick-e melville, and confirmed poets include Emily Critchley, Jim Ferguson, Robert Sheppard, Ben Watson and John Wilkinson. The registration fee is set at £25 for everyone and includes a buffet lunch on both conference days, and a wine reception at the Scottish Poetry Library on 10 September. Evening events, without conference attendence, are free for all.