Camarade IV

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Films from SJ Fowler’s Camarade IV event at the Rich Mix, Bethnal Green London. Above is the collaboration between James Wilkes and Christodoulos Makris. Full list below.

Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQVxS5egZUY

Carol Watts & George Szirtes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8phvyg1Euhc
Holly Pester & Daniel Rourke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlA21GaQCz4
Astrid Alben & Sophie Mayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzbkoXL9Cs
Ryan Van Winkle & Kirsty Irving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyNJTr_o9Qo
Marek Kazmierski & Stephen Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcxSzAxyyrY
Lucy Harvest Clarke & Stephen Emmerson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDHyV2B010
James Wilkes & Christodoulos Makris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt3PZHhjOoU
Roddy Lumsden & Carrie Etter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N_GrfOqKMM
Daniel Barrow & Ollie Evans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFFHV1Mk274

Visual Poetics

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This exhibition, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, focuses on the ways in which poetry has moved into a visual dimension in work by recent practitioners.

In particular, the emphasis is on the way that individual poets have incorporated their writing in or with visual images, or pushed their writing into something inherently visual, either lucidly, vividly or extravagantly. Among those whose work is exhibited are Thomas A Clark and Laurie Clark, Gavin Selerie, Liliane Lijn, James Harvey, Sarah Kelly and David Miller.

David Miller’s involvement in the curating of this exhibition is part of the Text and Image Project at Nottingham Trent University.

Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 8pm
Free

12 February 2013, 11:00am – 14 April 2013, 20:00pm.

More here.

Allen Fisher: connected events for the Birkbeck and Royal Holloway nexus.

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event one: 7.30pm, Thursday, 14th February, Birkbeck
Clore Management Building Room G01, Torrington square.

Testing & Experimenting
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event two: Thursday, 28th March, Royal Holloway, Central London
site and room tbc

Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit.

Birkbeck, Thursday 14th February

Testing & Experimenting, the event sets out to review for London the sequence of Allen Fisher’s Complexity Manifold talks (2006-2011), followed by a brief application of the result from the review, using examples from fourteen English poems published in the last five years and a concluding coda: the governance of the self and others.

Royal Holloway, Central London, Thursday 28th March

Æsthetics of the Imperfect Fit, a synthesis with an underlying theme of facture and æsthetic reception. Eventually the subject includes how meaning might be achieved by slow accretions and lead to aspects of truth telling. This subject is skewed by the poetics, confronted with the contradiction of the world as it is understood to be and the changing proposals for a different world.

John Ashbery webcasts

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John Ashbery is a Kelly Writers House Fellow this season. Two events featuring him as a Fellow will be streamed live as webcasts.

1) On Monday, February 11, 2013, beginning at precisely 6:30 PM eastern time, J.A. will give a reading.

2) On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, beginning at precisely noon eastern time, I will interview J.A. and will moderate questions and comments from a live audience at the Kelly Writers House and a worldwide audience via webcast.

For each program, click here

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/

to view the streaming video.

POETRY / MUSIC / FILM :: Lash / Ward / Andersen ++ Jeff Keen ++

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POETRY / MUSIC / FILM :: Lash / Ward / Andersen ++ Jeff Keen ++
MUSIC from the trio of Dominic Lash (bass) Alex Ward (clarinet, electric guitar) Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums).
&& POETRY by Jeff Keen, read by various, incl. Heames, Jeschke, etc.
&& Projection of FILMS by Jeff Keen The trio are on a UK tour, incl. stops at Cafe Oto etc. They will play two sets. The venue is NEWNHAM OLD LABS. Start time 8pm

Free Modern Poetry online course with Al Filreis

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“ModPo” is an entirely free, non-credit, online 10-week version of the 14-week course on modern and contemporary American poetry I’ve been teaching for thirty years, mostly here at Penn in Philadelphia, mostly here in the Kelly Writers House.
The course makes use of audio recordings of the poets reading the poems we discuss, as well as other materials and resources we’ve assembled through PennSound, Jacket2, PoemTalk and the programs of the Kelly Writers House over the years.
The course was offered last fall, with 36,000 people enrolled from 129 different countries. An overview of that experience, including links to reviews of and articles about the course, is available here:
As of today, we are taking enrollments for the second running of ModPo – starting Saturday, September 7, and finishing 10 weeks plus two days later, on Monday, November 18. One can enroll here:
– providing merely an email address and name (no other information is requested). As I say, it is entirely free and entirely open. (Entirely open: for instance, a number of people with disabilities took the course last time, with little to no difficulty; and people in remote places with slow and far-flung connections were still able to keep up; participants ranged from 15 to 95 years old; etc.)
A 20-minute video introduction to the course can be found on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/HsE6f0hbHwI .

The Tower of Babel

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New from Like This Press, The Tower of Babel comprises a set of 24 original postcards and an essay, both by Rupert Loydell, together with an anthology of Babel poems, featuring: Philip Terry, Sheila E Murphy, Andy Brown, rob mclennan, A.C. Evans, H.L. Hix, Angela Topping, Paul Sutton, Peter Dent, Camille Martin, Ian Seed, David H.W. Grubb, Seren Adams, Andrea Moorhead, Jane Routh, John Mingay, Luke Kennard, Steven Waling, Alan Halsey, Peter Gillies, Bill O’Brien, Mike Ferguson, David Hart, Martin Stannard, Rupert M. Loydell, Mark Goodwin, Natasha Loydell, Ira Lightman. Each box is hand-stamped and lined with black tissue paper.

 

Sugar Mule

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Sugar Mule 42 guest-edited by Lawrence Upton, featuring Tina Bass, Guy Begbie & Lawrence Upton, John Bloomberg-Rissman & Anne Gorrick, cris cheek, Allen Fisher, Gregorio Fontén, Jill Jones, Steve Hanson, Jeff Harrison, Kate Ladew, Jude Cowan Montague, Sheila Murphy, Simon Perchik, Tony Rickaby, Matthew Robertson, Robert Sheppard, Derek Shiel. Read it here.