Saturday November 4th 2.00 pm – 5 pm at The Hen and Chickens, Flannel Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5EG, where Nia will be a launching England, out now on Crater Press.
with a mini-festival of accompanying readers, including
Ailbhe Darcy
David Greenslade
Steven Hitchins
Julia Rose Lewis
Lee Duggan
Chris Paul
Ric Hool
Suze de Lee
Richard Parker
Lyndon Davies
and more to be announced
FREE
30th June at 7 pm. IKLEKTIK ‘Old Paradise Yard’, 20 Carlisle Lane, Royal Street corner, Archbishop’s park, London, SE1 7LG. Nia Davies launches her new collection, published by Bloodaxe Books.
6 June at 7 pm. Wharf Chambers, Ground Floor, 23 – 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ.
Zarf magazine presents –
The THIRD Zarf reading in Leeds …..
P O E T R Y (and similar)
readings by
NIA DAVIES
LILA MATSUMOTO
and more tbc
Date – Thu 18 May 2017
Time – 10.00 am
Duration – 2 hours
Cost – Free
Disabled access? – Yes
Venue – New Adelphi Building, Studio Theatre, University of Salford, University of Salford, University Road, Salford M5 4WT
This poetry performance workshop with Indian poet Mamta Sagar and Nia Davies explores at poetry as a tool of expression and transformation across cultures and languages. Participants will be encouraged to explode their notions of poetry and text by using visual and performance arts as well as experimental ‘translation’ and ‘transcreation’ possibilities.
Suitable for all, whatever your experience or background. Activities will include creative research, exploring multilingualism, performance practice, visualizing words and metaphors drawing, doodling, audio and video work.
The workshop will culminate in a performance and installation to be presented, at the performance venue. The workshop will be followed by a group reading/performance designed and produced at the workshop.
Mamta Sagar is a Kannada poet, playwright and translator from India teaching creative writing to the film, visual arts,design and literature students in Bangalore. Nia Davies is a poet and editor of Poetry Wales. She is doing practice based research in poetry and performance at Salford University.
More here.
LASFRYN SEMINARS
Forcing Change: Disruption, Transformation & the Poetic
with
NIA DAVIES
and
TAMARA DELLUTRI
Saturday, November 12th, 2016
11am – 4.30 pm
The event comprises two sessions, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m, then from 2.00 p.m. onwards, followed by an open-ended discussion.
£12.00 (Concessions £10)
Contact: Lyndon Davies. Email: goodiebard2@googlemail.com
01873 810456
The story of The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936, featuring Other Room readers John Goodby, Nia Davies and Rhys Trimble. Broadcast on Radio 3 and available on the BBC iPlayer.
Inspired by the Turkish tongue-twister Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız (Are you one of those we tried to make to be originating from Czechoslovakia?), the poems in this chapbook take their titles from the English translations of long words in various languages. These are words that can (barely) be translated as: ‘For those who were repeatedly unable to pick enough of small wood-sorrels in the past’, ‘To the least able to be making less understandable’, ‘For your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated. More here.
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The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
John Goodby is an expert on Dylan Thomas and has edited a version of his Collected Poems – see an interview HERE
Read about and download a sample of John’s cut-up sonnet sequence, Illennium, at Shearsman – LINK
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Rhys Trimble is one of the performers and will make his second appearance at The Other Room. Lots of things can be trimbled at Rhys’ website – LINK
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Follow this LINK to read an interview with Nia Davies in Wales Art Review
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
Hear Chris Paul read from his Veer publication stenia cultas handbook – LINK
Or some poems at onedit – LINK
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details. Below is a recent collaboration between two of the our performers, Lyndon Davies and Graham Hartill.
Housmans Radical Booksellers, 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX. Thursday, December 13, 7:00pm. A rare chance to hear Occitan poet Aurelia Lassaque read her poems from her new book – Solstice and other poems, translated into English by James Thomas. Featuring guest readings from Martin Solotruk, Amy Key, Jessica Pujol, SJ Fowler, Nia Davies and others tbc. Join Francis Boutle Publishing, Literature Across Frontiers and Maintenant for an evening of poetry at Housman’s radical bookshop, Kings Cross, London.
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