D.S. Marriott and Robert Sheppard

Tuesday 7th June, 7.30pm

• D. S. Marriott
• Robert Sheppard

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

Daniele Pantano and Robert Sheppard Reading

Thursday 5th May, 5.30pm

• Daniele Pantano
• Robert Sheppard

B005, ground floor Business Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk campus L39 4QP

Admission is free, all welcome.

Third Hay-on-Wye Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th June 2011

2nd June

• 6.30 - 7.30pm: festival launch reception
• 7.30 - 9.15 pm: Ralph Hawkins, Allen Fisher

3rd June

• 11am - 12pm: film and poetry - Colin Still
• 2 - 4pm: Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green
• 5 - 6pm: lecture - Robert Sheppard
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Carol Watts, Sean Bonney

4th June

• 11am - 12pm: Frances Presley, Glenn Storhaug
• 2 - 4pm: Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoë Skoulding with Poetry Wales
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Kelvin Corcoran, Maggie O'Sullivan
• 9.30 - 10.30pm: grand finale - Chicken of the Woods (bluegrass band)

All Saturday in Salem Chapel proper, Elysium Gallery in collaboration with Hay Poetry Jamboree presents Bus Stop Cinema - a festival of short films.

Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.) (for events at starting at 7.30pm)

Admission is free to all other events.

Update on Sunday 24 April, 2011 by Openned

• Info and bookings from goodbard@yahoo.co.uk
• Webpage for Jamboree
• Become a Friend of the Poetry Jamboree

New From Shearsman

Two new books by Robert Sheppard from Shearsman.

Berlin Bursts

£8.95 / $15, Shearsman, 2011 (Paperback, 96 pages)

ISBN 9781848611351

These new poems feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard’s local Capital of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem. Yet a series of metapoems brings agency and wonder to the idea of the poem, always seeing the world as well as itself, in perceptual double-takes that tease away at the meaning of the poetic act. At the centre of the collection is 'Six Poems Against Death' whose lyric imperative hovers before the portals of the unknown to embrace human unfinish as the condition of our survival.

When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry

£13.95 / $22, Shearsman, 2011 (Paperback, 218 pages)

ISBN 9781848611368

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon its central figures and provisional institutions. Episodes cover the Poetry Wars of the 1970s; the centrality of Bob Cobbing as poetry activist and the SubVoicive poetry scene in 1980s London; he also writes individual chapters on the poetry and poetics of Allen Fisher, Tom Raworth, Iain Sinclair, John Hall, Ken Edwards, and Maggie O'Sullivan.

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar - Robert Sheppard

Wednesday 16th February, 6 - 8pm

Professor Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill): 'Form’s Mordant Eye: Poetry as the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form'

Room G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, London

Admission is free, all welcome

VLAK Magazine Online

The inaugural issue of VLAK Magazine: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (out of print!) available for free download here, featuring commentary, visual work, interviews and writing from:

• Ali Alizadeh
• Bruce Andrews
• Louis Armand
• Octavio Armand
• Stephanie Barber
• Andrea Brady
• Pam Brown
• Abigail Child
• Joshua Cohen
• John Coletti
• Stephan Delbos
• Brandon Downing
• Veronika Drahotova
• Vadim Erent
• Betsy Fagin
• Vincent Farnsworth
• Mike Farrell
• Jessica Fiorini
• Allen Fisher
• Thor Garcia
• John Godfrey
• Elizabeth Gross
• Catherine Hales
• Matt Hall
• Tim Haze
• Henry Hills
• Jen Hofer
• Amande In
• Keith Jones
• Alexander Jorgensen
• Pierre Joris
• Vincent Katz
• John Kinsella
• Aaron Lowinger
• Karen Mac Cormack
• Steve McCaffery
• Mez
• Bill Mousoulis
• Eileen Myles
• Jess Mynes
• Jena Osman
• Ron Padget
• Marjorie Perloff
• Douglas Piccinnini
• Arlo Quint
• Ales Steger
• Holli Schorno
• Robert Sheppard
• Stephanie Strickland
• Stacey Szymaszek
• Holly Tavel
• Habib Tengour
• Mark Terrill
• Richard Tipping
• Darren Tofts
• Edwin Torres
• Veronique Vassiliou
• Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
• Alli Warren
• Marjorie Welish
• John Wilkinson
• Allyssa Wolf

Contempo: Robert Sheppard

Website

Knives, Forks and Spoons Book Launch

Thursday 30th September, 7pm

Readings from their Knives Forks and Spoons pamphlets by:

• Antony Rowland
• Robert Sheppard
• Scott Thurston

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY (near Oxford St. station)

Admission is free

BLUE BUS

Tuesday 12th October, 7.30pm

• Robert Sheppard
• Hazel Smith

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

onedit #16

onedit #16 is now online, featuring:

• Emily Critchley
• Gareth Durasow
• Gregory Farnum
• Alec Finlay
• Allen Fisher
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Ralph Hawkins
• Elffish Jon
• Kevin Killian
• Richard Parker
• Francisco Petrarch
• Robert Sheppard
• Jonty Tiplady