Tom Jenks

Poetry Reading – Denise Riley

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Tapestry Room, Firth Hall, Western Bank, Sheffield
. 7pm Thursday 15th March 2012.

Denise Riley (born 1948, Carlisle) is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s. Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to Feminism and Contemporary Philosophy. She was, until recently, Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A. D. White Professor at Cornell University. She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London.

More info: A.Piette@sheffield.ac.uk

Hay Poetry Jamboree 2012

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This year’s programme has been announced and features:

THURSDAY JUNE 7TH
Andrea Brady and John Powell Ward.

FRIDAY JUNE 8th
Jeremy Hilton, Waterloo Press, Steven Hitchins,bCaroline Goodwin, Harry Gilonis, Laurie Duggan, Philip Terry, Andrew Duncan, Harriet Tarlo and Peter Larkin.

SATURDAY JUNE 9th
David Greenslade, Keith Hackwood, Nerys Williams, Tim Atkins, Sophie Robinson, Jeff Hilson, Ulli Freer and Tony Lopez.

More details at Lyndon Davies’ site.

The English Intelligencer

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“Certain Prose of ‘The English Intelligencer’ “ed. by Neil Pattison, Reitha Pattison, Luke Roberts

£6.50 / €8 / $12 | 216x138mm | 224pp

http://mountain-press.co.uk/tei.html

Selections from the correspondence, essays and ephemera circulated in the poetry worksheet ‘The English Intelligencer’ (1966-1968). Featuring previously unpublished and uncollected early prose works from writers including Andrew Crozier, John Hall, John James, Barry MacSweeney, J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley, John Temple, and many others.

Five London events

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Via SJ Fowler:

March 12th Monday: Maintenant presents European poets at the Southbank Centre

Our first foray in collaboration with the Southbank centre, we present three of the finest contemporary European poets. Tickets are £8
March 29th Thursday: Marton Koppany: Broked and Reduced
in collaboration with the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/
Venue tbc, Birkbeck College 6-7.30pm, all welcome.
“I lost my mother tongue more than thirty years ago and am still searching for it.” Hungarian visual poet MÁRTON KOPPÁNY talks about his work, and projects images.
March 31st Saturday: Maintenant: a celebration of contemporary avant-garde poetry at the rich mix arts centre
The 11th event in the Maintenant series will be a unique celebration of European avant-garde poetry, bringing Sound & Visual poets together from all over the continent in collaborative performances and a free artfair for a wholly original night of cutting edge contemporary poetry. Free facsimiles of concrete and visual poetry will be available from stalls manned by the poets and artists, while performances from the world of both poetry and music intersperse the evening. Hungarian Marton Koppany features alongside the likes of Holly Pester, Hannah Silva, David Berridge, Patrick Coyle, Tamarin Norwood, Julia Calver, Ollie Evans, Ben Morris, Mark Jackson and many others.
April 26th Thursday: Maintenant Croatia at Europe House
In collaboration with the Croatian writers association, four Croatian poets will be visiting London to read at the home of EU in London, Europe House alongside four British poets.
July 7th Saturday: Maintenant Camarade III at the rich mix arts centre
The third instalment of the Camarade series featuring original poetry read by collaborating pairs of European poets. Confirmed for the event: Richard Barrett & Jonty Tiplady, Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks, Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis, Simon Barraclough & Isobel Dixon, Emma Bennett & Holly Pester, more to be announced.

Maintenant #86 – András Gerevich

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Though his constitution as a poet is multi-lingual, multi-national, fundamentally cosmopolitan and reflexive, it is the definitive clarity in the work of András Gerevich which has marked him out as one of the most considerable and singular voices of his generation. From the remarkable Hungarian poetic tradition, which has continued to produce poets of individuality and conscience for hundreds of years and to this very day, Gerevich has defined himself as a resolute and powerful writer, poet and screenwriter. His work burrows into the cadences of speech, of reflection, of confession, speaking clearly from the first person, while without apology it maintains its affability of form in order to scale its ambition of content. In the 86th edition of the Maintenant series we present András Gerevich.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-86-andras-gerevich/

Accompanying the interview are five poems, translated by George Szirtes, Christopher White and David Hill.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/andras-gerevich-five-poems/

Coracle Press

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From March to November 2012 an exhibition of work by leading small press, Coracle, made during the period 1989 to 2012, will tour four UK venues. Printed in Norfolk will showcase artists’ books, poetry, critical documents, ephemera, catalogues and anthologies.

The exhibition opens in Norwich at The Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts (formerly The Norwich Gallery) before going on to Site Gallery in Sheffield, Shandy Hall in North Yorkshire (home of the Laurence Sterne Trust) and the Saison Poetry Library on London’s Southbank.

Poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts founded, and works under the name of Coracle. A key player in UK arts and publishing since the mid 1970s, Cutts and long-term co-director Erica Van Horn have recently been based in Ireland, working internationally on Coracle exhibitions, publications and other collaborations.

Printed in Norfolk brings together works produced by Coracle during a twenty year collaboration with trade printer Crome and Akers in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Exhibition tour organiser Helen Mitchell said;

“This exhibition is the first chance for many years to see a significant body of Coracle’s work in the UK mainland. Our choice of venues, which balances two visual arts and two literary venues reflects these different aspects to Coracle’s work. ”

Each venue will host a book room as part of the exhibition, where visitors will be able sit and leaf through books. Poets whose work will be featured include John Bevis, Thomas A Clark, Simon Cutts, Harry Gilonis, Susan Howe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Spike Hawkins, Cralan Kelder, Thomas Meyer, Stuart Mills, William Minor and Jonathan Williams.

The exhibition catalogue will be published by RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications) and will chart the influential role Simon Cutts has played in UK and international arts and poetry since the 1960s as well as Coracle’s suite of Norfolk publications.

Printed in Norfolk is being funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and Norfolk County Council.

For further information: www.printedinnorfolk.org.uk

Frakture present Juxtavoices

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Saturday 17th March
The Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool l1 3BX

Prompt: 7.30 start 5.00 / 3.00

Juxtavoices is a large antichoir which includes many familiar faces from Sheffield’s leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scene. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing normal concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places and at poetry / text events. A Discus CD is planned for 2012. Always on the look out for new members.

Critical Documents: three books

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*We Are Real: A History* (2012) by Colleen Hind & Pocahontas Mildew – £3 / €5 / $6 – containing “Squick” (Love in a Time of Hollering) & “Trigger Warning” (Precision Riot Mirror) – written 2008 to 2011 – http://plantarchy.us/real.html

Frances Kruk’s *A Discourse on Vegetation & Motion* (2008 / reprinted 2012) – £3 / €5 / $6 – “today is Throat Seal Liquid” – “today I occupy Shidane Arone” – http://plantarchy.us/a-discourse.html

Francis Crot’s *Xena Warrior Princess: The Seven Curses* (2008 / reprinted 2012) – £6 / €8 / $11 – Annotations by Nour Mobarak – Stephen Rodefer: “Not since William Burroughs met the pubescent Leonardo DiCaprio has literary lunch been this naked and succulent.” – http://plantarchy.us/seven-curses.html

Peter Jaeger at Edge Hill

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Tuesday, 28th February 2012, 7:30pm

The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University
Edge Hill’s Creative Writing Department present

An Evening with Canadian poet, Peter Jaeger, at the Rose Theatre.

Tickets £4.00 all

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Rapid Eye Movement (2009) and The Persons (2011). He has recently collaborated with the video artist Kaz to produce the film Nozomi, which was exhibited at the Bury Text Festival in 2011, and he is currently
working on a critical monograph on John Cage. Peter uses found texts to write through the words of others: those protagonists who have animated his imagination and left their traces in newspapers, emails, diaries, books (from literature to philosophy), and in all the countless ephemera with which the externalised inner drama of our lives plays out.

Peter Jaeger teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University, in London. http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Peter-Jaeger/

His work includes the poetry collections Power Lawn (1999), Eckhart Cars (2004), and Prop (2007), as well as a critical study on contemporary poetics, entitled ABC of Reading TRG: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and the Toronto Research Group (2000). He currently divides his time between London and rural Somerset, where he lives with his family.

Recent book from Reality Street: Rapid Eye Movement follows a strict constraint: two bands of text run continuously throughout the book. The top band consists entirely of fragmented dream narratives recorded by historical and contemporary dreamers, while the lower band juxtaposes found material which includes the word “dream.” No two sentences taken from the same source follow each other. As an investigation of the sign “dream” across a number of social discourses, including literature, psychoanalysis, advertising, popular culture, song lyrics, philosophy and
religious literature, Rapid Eye Movement presents a record of our culture dreaming.

“Jaeger dreams of the day when forestry operations can use balloon-based, skidding devices that float above the treetops and winch trees out of the forest without damaging the woodland floor. Jaeger dreams up some interesting shots. Jaeger dreams of peace. His book of dreams is not too different from a hope chest. His dreams are getting better all the time.
His dreams are coming true.”
Christian Bök

Members of the Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics Research group will be reading as a warm-up.

Poetry / Music: Cambridge – Friday 24th Feb

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  •  JUSTIN KATKO
  • OUT TO LUNCH
  • LASH + STENT
  • DRACHMAE LUCKY STRENGTH
+ There will be readings from Justin Katko and Out To Lunch (Ben Watson), as well as music from the duo of Dominic Lash & David Stent (double bass + guitar) and the electronic trio Drachmae Lucky Strength. Books & CDs will be available.
Friday 24 February, 7.30pm. Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.