23 June · 19:00 – 20:30, Parasol Unit, London
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
More here.
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30, Parasol Unit, London
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
More here.
A double bill – talk and performances – of polyvocalia at Birkbeck. Monday 20 June. Free and all
welcome.
6pm, 43 Gordon Square, Room 124
Cris Cheek, ‘Before I am Anything Else: provisional transatlantic communities in polyvocal poetic
performance’.
& then around the corner…
7.15pm, 32 Tavistock Square
FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS
Lawrence Upton, Chris Goode, Cris Cheek, Holly Pester & others revisit work by Sumner, bpnichol,
Basinski, Cobbing, MacLow & other scores, poems and possibilities
James Davies and Carol Watts, authors of the two most recent Reality Street titles, will be on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb next month. More on Ken Edwards’ blog: http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/reality-street-on-the-verb
A range of interesting stuff, including Other Room readers David Annwn, Sean Bonney, Allen Fisher, Maggie O’Sullivan, Zoe Skoulding Robert Sheppard and Carol Watts. Read the flyer here.
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
*** Free Drinks & ‘Interior Ears’ hand-out for all ***
…
£3 / £1.50 – for booking details see below
More info see: Intercapillary Places website https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Parasol Unit: http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php
Important: As the capacity for the event is limited, please book in advance by emailing Charlotte Jones at events@parasol-unit.org or calling on 020 7490 7373 ext 20. Please be aware that if you haven’t booked in advance and turn up on the night, this is fine but if capacity is reached you may not be allowed in.
About the Speakers
Carol Watts is Reader in Literature and Poetics, Birkbeck, University of London; Co-Director, Birkbeck Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetics. She has published a study of Dorothy Richardson (Northcote House, 1995) and The Cultural Work of Empire: The Seven Years War and the Imagining of the Shandean State (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007). Her poetry publications include Wrack (Reality Street, 2007), brass, running (Equipage, 2006), When blue light falls (Oystercatcher, 2008) and alphabetise (Intercapillary Editions, hardback edition 2011). She is currently researching the transatlantic culture of loyalism during the American Revolution.
Marianne Morris was raised in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge, and was the recipient of the Harper-Wood Studentship for Creative Writing from St. John’s College in 2008. She is now researching for a PhD in contemporary poetry at Dartington (University College Falmouth). She founded Bad Press in 2002. Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011); Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); with Bad Press: Cocteau Turquoise Turning, Fetish Poems (2004); Gathered Tongue, Memento Mori (2003); Poems in Order (2002). Who Not To Speak To and Iran Documents are forthcoming from Acts of Language and Openned Press respectively.
‘Intercapillary Places: Poetry at Parasol Unit’ is organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts
More here.
Wednesday, May 11 · 7:30pm – 11:30pm
The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, WC1X 2AE
James Davies launches Plants and Carol Watts launches Occasionals, both published by Reality Street. More details about this event on Facebook.
“Over the past 40 years or so, British poets have been remaking the pastoral. It has been a violent business. What Raymond Williams once severely called the old “enamelled world” of pastoral poetry has been worked over, its certainties cracked and shattered. Long gone are those shepherds and shepherdesses idly enacting class hierarchies. Toxins have seeped into Arcadia; “nature” is a mess of our own manufacture. Out of the static conservatisms of an ancient form has come a series of countervailing modes: the anti-pastoral, the counter-pastoral, the radical pastoral, the post-pastoral.”
The Ground Aslant, a new Shearsman anthology edited by Other Room reader Harriet Tarlo and featuring Other Room readers Zoë Skoulding and Carol Watts, reviewed in The Guardian, here.
POLYply > 9 ANIMAL ANIMAL 14 April
Maria Fusco
Carol Watts
Anna Lawrence
Johan Thom
Peter Cusack
Thursday 14th April, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Via Ken Edwards:
The Reality Street Supporter Scheme 2011 has officially opened. Already some existing Supporters have re-subscribed – if you would like to join them, you will receive copies of the following five books in 2011:
(Subject to final confirmation and not necessarily in that order)
A Celebration of Anna Mendelssohn
There will be a celebration of the life and poetry of Anna Mendelssohn/Grace Lake on 15 September, 6-9 pm, to be held in the Council Room in Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1. The event is jointly hosted by Birkbeck Poetics Centre and The Centre for Modernist Studies at Sussex, and has been organised with her family and friends, as well as those interested in her poetry. There will be readings from Anna’s work and other poems from among others Ian Patterson, Sean Bonney, Barry Schwabsky, Frances Presley, Chloe Harries, and Jane Liddell-King, and words from those who knew her, including members of her family and Peter Riley, who worked to save her extraordinary archive after her death.
The event is open to all, and if you’d like to read please let either Sara Crangle (skcrangle@gmail.com) or myself know (c.watts@bbk.ac.uk), so that we can plan the evening with room for everyone. Also do drop me a line if attending, so we have a sense of the numbers for refreshment. If anyone has any images of artwork or photos of Anna that we can receive in jpeg form, that would also be great and we’ll display them on the evening.
Via Carol Watts
Continues for the next two days.
See this LINK from Openned for location and readers.
The culmination of work from our Voiceworks project, a six-month collaboration between poets via Birkbeck Poetics Centre and composers and singers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, is taking place at 6pm at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 20 May, free to attend and also live streamed for the first time on the internet. Full details of this and the upcoming new website voiceworks.org.uk which is launched at the same time is at: LINK
Voiceworks 2010 participants are:
Francisco Coll Garcia, Albert Pellicer, Iria Perestrelo
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Emma Bennett, Adam Crockatt
David Moore, Ben Gwalchmai, Luke Tracey
Raymond Yiu, Kim Patrick, Luis Gomes, Clément Dionet
Patrick Brennan, James Wilkes, Robert Elibay-Hartog
Nick Scott, Frances Kruk, Lucy Hall
Matthew Mendez, Holly Pester, Victor Sicard
Come along in person or virtually. It lasts 45 minutes.
Via Carol Watts