North-West Poetry and Poetics Network, Wednesday April 20th 2016.
POETRY AND TRANSLATION
University of Salford, The Old Fire Station, 1.00 – 3.30 pm.
For queries, please contact: Professor Antony Rowland (a.rowland@mmu.ac.uk)
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom, above the pub name, above) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7.30 pm spot-on start (but slightly later start than previously)!
FRIDAY January 29th: Leanne Bridgewater and James Byrne
James Byrne’s most recent poetry collections are White Coins and the newly published Everything Broken Up Dances. Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc Publications in 2009. Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets, published in June 2012, is co-edited with ko ko thett and is the first anthology of Burmese poetry ever to be published in the West (Arc 2012). Byrne is the editor of The Wolf, which he co-founded in 2002. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of poets under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009. Byrne lives in Liverpool and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His poems have been translated into several languages including Arabic, Burmese and Chinese and he is the International Editor for Arc Publications.
Some James Byrne links:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/interview-james-byrne-edge-hill-university
Poetician and pattern artist, Leanne Bridgewater’s work stems from experimentation of word order and unconventional rhyme, to phonic chants and visual grafitti. Her drawings are said to belong to Pareidolia: seeing faces within patterns. Her performances and readings have included visual puns where a tomato is placed on a toe, musical instruments, collaborations with multiple language spreakers, traslators and musicians. She was awarded a Foyle Young poet at 17. At 23 she graduated from The University of Salford with an MA in Creative Writing: Innovation & Experiment (distinction). In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize.Her first debut collection, Confessions of a Cyclist, is out now and published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press. See here
An exclusive interview with Kelvin Corcoran. Niall McDevitt on David Gascoyne. Tom Jenks reviews Chris McCabe. John Kinsella on re-imagining place. Mexican Poetry feature. Patricia Farrell as Artist in Residence. Poems from Yang Lian, Michelle Cahill, Ellen Hinsey and much more. Out now.
Edge Hill University writers at The Tate Liverpool. Saturday, May 16, 2015 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. A reading of surrealist and fantastical new writing, inspired by Leonora Carrington. Readers include Ailsa Cox, Claire Dean, James Byrne, Tom Jenks and Jenny Barrett. Free, but you can confirm a place here.
7.30pm, Wednesday 18th February
Upstairs at the Fly in the Loaf
13 Hardman Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 9AS
Free Entry
Pairings to include…
Tom Jenks & SJ Fowler (launching 1000 Proverbs)
Robert Sheppard & The European Union of Imaginary Authors
Scott Thurston & Steve Boyland
James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar
Patricia Farrell & Joanne Ashcroft
Steve Van Hagen & Michael Egan
Lindsey Holland & Andrew Oldham
Elio Lomas & Luke Thurogood
Hosts: SJ Fowler Fowler and James Byrne
An exclusive interview with Jerome Rothenberg by Ariel Resnikoff. Reviews of Geoffrey Hill, Carol Watts, D.S. Marriott and SJ Fowler. Robert Sheppard on The Meaning of Form in the Work of Christopher Middleton. The Wolf Artist in Residence: Lenka Ðorojevic introduced by Simona Žvanut. Poems from Chris McCabe, Manoel de Barros, John James, Jana Bodnárová, Alvin Pang and much more in issue 31, here.
Thursday 30th October: Sandeep Parmar and James Byrne read at The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, 7.30 pm £4.50
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham in 1979 and was raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008 on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is the Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine and edited The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). Her critical book on Loy, Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2013. She teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Liverpool. Sandeep Parmar’s The Marble Orchard is published by Shearsman.,
James Byrne founded The Wolf magazine in 2002, which he still edits, and co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Poets (Arc Publications, 2012). His second poetry collection in the UK, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc in November 2009 and his poems have been translated into various languages including Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, French and Serbian. Byrne was Poet in Residence at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 2012 (the first since Joseph Brodsky).
On Saturday 4th October from 1pm to 4pm featuring PATRICIA FARRELL, ROBERT SHEPPARD JAMES BYRNE and JOANNE ASHCROFT, all of whom have books published by KFS, at St Helens Library, Victoria Square, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1DY. If you are travelling by train, DO NOT GO TO St HELENS JUNCTION. Instead, travel to St Helens Central Station.
Rod Mengham’s Paris by Helen and James Byrne and Sandeep Parmar’s Myth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nations are out now on Oystercatcher Press.
Radical poetry in Liverpool at News from Nowhere News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop
Monday, March 31st, 7pm start
CHRIS McCABE – One of the UK’s most innovative poets and the author of THE HUTTON INQUIRY.
NIALL McDEVITT – Launching PORTERLOO: ‘A brilliant explosive book…the best politically weaponised poetry ever’. (Jeremy Reed).
SARAH CREWE – Liverpool poet, author of SEA WITCH and co-editor of CATECHISM: POEMS FOR PUSSY RIOT.
& JAMES BYRNE – Editor of THE WOLF Magazine, launching SOAPBOXES: a pamphlet of political satire.
Hosted by JAMES BYRNE & SANDEEP PARMAR
News from Nowhere: Radical & Community Bookshop, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, 0151 708 7270
This is a FREE event but please RSVP via Facebook event page or by calling the number above. Spaces limited.
Readings from The Hardy Tree Gallery, St Pancras which took place on the closing night of the Enemies exhibition, 20th July 2013
Tamarin Norwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtE2sBTai1A
Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUhLczT7Wl4
James Davies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUyGoEE94UQ
Tom Jenks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5Kmy4UMxk
Ensemble collaborative reading & Goodbye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yJ3m5x4rs
otherroom.org 