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Launch event: The Paper Nautilus + Materials

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Friday 6th February, Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, prompt 7.30pm start

A joint launch event for the fourth issues of The Paper Nautilus (eds. Kilbride / Van Hensbergen) and MATERIALS (eds. Jeschke / Grundy). This new issue of TPN is a translation issue, featuring translations of, among others, Clarice Lispector, Friederike Mayröcker, Sophie Podolski, Anne Portugal, Amelia Rosselli and Monique Wittig. The new issue of MATERIALS is subtitled ‘Economic Ophelia’ and features work from Rob Halpern, Kevin Killian, Nina Power, Connie Scozzaro, Cathy Wagner and others.

The night will feature performances, poetry readings, lectures and presentations in fitting and unfitting arrangements by the following:

  • Lucy Beynon
  • Eleanor Careless
  • Gareth Farmer
  • Rosa Van Hensbergen
  • Lisa Jeschke
  • Laura Kilbride
  • Hannah Proctor
  • Will Stuart
  • Marina Vishmidt
  • Naomi Weber
  • + potentially others TBC

As well as TPN and Materials 4, copies of the following new books and pamphlets from MATERIALS will be on sale:

 

  • Merry Hell by Sara Larsen
  • Watch-Fires by Tom Allen
  • A Comradeship of Heroes from Around the World
  • Lights Out to Love in HD by Rosa Van Hensbergen

http://www.thepapernautilus.co.uk/

http://material-s.blogspot.co.uk/

Materials

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The eight reading in the Materials Reading series will feature readings from MEG FOULKES and STUART CALTON.

MEG FOULKES is the author of ‘Poems’ (Rank Xerox, 2004) and ‘Sylvester’s Crown and Other Poems’ (Arehouse, 2005).

“Bring on the fanfare, success / Writes poems of determined luck / So pleased, so incurably pleased / To be known still.”

STUART CALTON is the author of ‘Sheep Walk Cut’, ‘The Bench Graft’ (both Barque Press, 2004), ‘United Snap-Up’ (Fenland Hi-Brow Press, 2004), ‘The Corn Mother’ (Barque Press, 2006), and ‘Three Reveries’ (Barque Press, 2010). His most recent book is ‘The Torn Instructions for No Trebuchet’  (Barque Press, 2013), which he will read on this occasion.

“still forever I / hate this fucking system and I wanted our life / better to realize the true generality and make its / really-existing untruth external in our / particular.”

Armitage Room (FF), Queens’ College, Cambridge, Friday 7th March, 7.30 for 8pm. BYOB.

MATERIALS READING SERIES: CAITLÍN DOHERTY / NICK POTAMITIS

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The second reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, the 31st October, in the Armitage Room at Queens’ College, Cambridge, at 7.30 for 8pm. Email dmg37@cam.ac.uk and ljj28@cam.ac.uk for further information.

Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Cambridge: Foule Press, 2012) and SATELLITES(Tokyo: Tipped Press, 2012) and has a book forthcoming from Critical Documents. “An inter-galactic stargate opens. Titan falls through it.”

Nick Potamitis is the author of THE BOOK OF NIGHT TERRORS (Cambridge: Salt, 2010) and the forthcoming JUBILATE AJAX (Cambridge: Mountain, 2014). “despite / his being only an archetype, the philologist still / finds fault with the tableware.”