Jennifer Pike Cobbing 90th Birthday Celebration

Saturday 10th July, 4pm onwards

The workshop featuring some work specially prepared for the occasion will commence at 4pm. After a short interval, at approximately 6pm, a second session will feature performances by:

• Sean Bonney
• Patricia Farrell
• Ulli Freer
• Frances Kruk
• Robert Sheppard
• Mike Weller

The 13th issue of AND, edited by Adrian Clarke and Ulli Freer, will also be launched at this event. Jennifer's new book from Veer Books, The Conglomerization of Wot (Veer 029), will also be available on the day.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BL

Admission is free, all welcome.

The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film

Steve Willey, Ulli Freer and Adrian Clarke will be giving short readings of their own work and work published by Writers Forum. Plus, a 36 min documentary made by Steve Willey, The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film will be shown. The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers forum over a period of 50 years.

Details about the event can be found here.

Openned Anthology

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Jul 07 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: Home Page (PDF, 1.9MB) Six months in the making, the Openned anthology is an electronic publication of poets that have read at the first nine Openned nights. The anthology is completely free, available in PDF format in parts or as a full document. It is best to download the anthology in parts as it is a big file and it takes a long time to download. Save the file to your hard drive once you have downloaded it so you don't have to download it again every time you want to look at it. Poets featured in this publication:

• Aaron Wells 
• Albert Pellicer 
• Alex Davies 
• Alex MacDonald 
• Allen Fisher 
• Andrea Brady 
• Annabel Emson 
• Ceri Buck 
• Drew Milne 
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 
• Emily Critchley 
• Fiona Templeton 
• Francis Crot 
• Graeme Estry 
• Hannah Silva 
• Ian Hunt 
• James Byrne 
• James Harvey 
• Jeff Hilson 
• John Cayley 
• John Sparrow 
• John Stiles 
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick 
• Keston Sutherland 
• Lydia White 
• Marianne Morris 
• Michael Weller 
• Nick Potamitis 
• Piers Hugill 
• Redell Olsen 
• Robert Hampson 
• Rosheen Brennan 
• Rotten Elements 
• Sean Bonney 
• Sophie Robinson 
• Stephen Willey 
• Tim Atkins 
• Ulli Freer 
• Writing Machine / DJ Ed Rusch

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