Xing the Line - New Venue

Wednesday 22nd September, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney
• Jeff Hilson

William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7QE (tube: Old Street)

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WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION: VerySmallKitchen at the Pigeon Wing

For their residency at The Pigeon Wing, VerySmallKitchen presents a month long exploration of how writing moves (or not) between the locations of WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION. Throughout September The Pigeon Wing will be both work space and exhibition, with a program of exhibitions, readings, performances, research projects, libraries, and screenings, exploring an abundance of forms and practices at the interface of writing and art practices.

More details here.

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What Every Woman Would Carry: Women's Poetry Anthologies

Late notice, tonight:

Dr Jane Dowson, author of A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry, reveals and interrogates the history of anthologies of women's poetry, in conversation with two editors of such works - poets Maura Dooley and Carrie Etter.

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Writers Forum

Saturday 25th September, 3.30pm

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London EC1

Bring things to read/perform: two sets, if you can.

3am magazine: Ny Poesi

The event will also see the release of a one-off special publication from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press featuring poetic collaborations between the visiting Norwegian poets and Jeff Hilson, Sean Bonney, Agnes Lehoczky and Sam Riviere.

In association with NORLA and the Norwegian embassy in London. Special thanks to Susanne Christensen, Andrine Pollen, Anne Ulset, Judith Palmer, Oliver Carruthers, Øyvind Rimbereid & Caroline Bergvall.

BLUE BUS

Tuesday 14th September, 7.30pm

• Ken Edwards
• Harry Gilonis

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

POLYply 3: in response to Emily Dickinson

Thursday 9th September, 7 - 10pm

• Prudence Chamberlain
• Amy De'Ath
• Harry Gilonis
• Susan Johanknecht (book art)
• Kristen Kreider (video)
• Lucy Sheerman

• Antoine Beuger's Landscapes of Absence, performed by Tim Parkinson, Angharad Davies, David Stent and Dominic Lash (music), Carol Watts (voice), Els van Riel (video)

Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London

Admission is free, all welcome.

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Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry

Thursday 2nd September, 6.45pm

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2010

• Tilla Brading
• Ian Davidson
• Allen Fisher
• Frances Presley
• Peter Riley
• Iain Sinclair

Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

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Anna Mendelssohn & Grace Lake Celebration

Wednesday 15th September, 6 - 9pm

There will be readings from among others:

• Sean Bonney
• Chloe Harries
• Jane Liddell-King
• Ian Patterson
• Frances Presley
• Barry Schwabsky

Council Room, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1

Admission is free, all welcome. Please contact Carol Watts if you are planning to attend or would like to read.

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Update on Monday 13 September, 2010 by Openned

Change of Venue the reading will now be held at 32 Tavistock Square in Birkbeck College.

Openned Press Book Launch

Don't forget it's the launch of Richard Parker's from The Mountain of California ... tonight at Carnivale, right by Aldgate East tube, London. It's free. More information including details of other readers on our Upcoming page.