Joan Retallack - Poetry and the Mirror of Nature

Thursday 15th October, 5pm

Joan Retallack will give an lecture and reading entitled: 'Poetry and the Mirror of Nature'

Little Hall, Sigdwick Site, University of Cambridge

Admission is free.

There will also be a two-day symposium of talks to accompany her visit:

Thursday 15th October, 2 - 4pm
The Poetry of Joan Retallack 

• Dr. Ian Davidson (Bangor): 'Experimental poetry and memory in the work of Joan Retallack'
• Dr. Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London): Noise on: 'The Experimental Feminine'
• Dr. Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan): 'Aesthetic Swerve'

Friday 16th October, 10am - 5.30pm
Symposium on contemporary poetry and poetics: 

• Dr. Drew Milne, welcome and introductory remarks
• Prof.Will Rowe (Birkbeck): 'The world occasion: syntax in Witt and Stein'
• Dr. Zoe Skoulding (Bangor): 'Dislocution and the Experimental Feminine'
• Alec Finlay: will present and discuss his work as a poet and artist
• John Hall (Dartington) 'Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing'
• Larry Lynch (Dartington) will present and discuss their work
• Dr. Drew Milne (Cambridge University): 'Reading Procedures and Contemporary Poetics'
• Poetry readings by Ian Patterson (Cambridge University), Zoe Skoulding (Bangor), and Ian Davidson (Bangor).

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Launch Events

Thursday 8th October, 6.30pm

A joint celebration of the launch of the Journal and Edge Hill's decade of poetics by speaker/editor Scott Thurston.

Education Building E21, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

The other two launch events will be standalone, and incorporate speeches and discussion of the journal. As well as an opportunity for editorial board members to meet with readers and contributors to the journal.

Wednesday 21st October, 7.30pm

Main Building (Room B29) Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street WC1E 7HX

Wednesday 9th December, (time TBC)

• Ian Davidson
• Allen Fisher
• Christine Kennedy

University of Salford

Further details to be posted in due course.

Trevor Joyce, Susan Howe and David Grubbs in Cambridge

Friday 9th October, 7.30pm

• Trevor Joyce
• Susan Howe
• David Grubbs

Trevor Joyce will read from his work followed by a joint performance by Susan Howe and David Grubbs after the interval.

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Sigdwick Avenue, Cambridge

Admission free.

A Decade of Poetics at Edge Hill

Robert Sheppard has posted further details of plans to recognise a decade of poetics at Edge Hill university.

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The Other Room

Wednesday 7th October, 7pm

• Craig Dworkin
• Michael Haslam

There is also a well-stocked book table. Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester Science Park, Manchester M15 6AY Admission is free. The Other Room will also be running another event for Oxjam: Sunday 25th October, 1pm

• Stuart Calton
• James Davies
• Tony Trehy

Apotheca, Northern Quarter, Manchester Read more about Oxjam.

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Desperate for Love

Tuesday 22nd September, 8 - 11pm

• Neil Palmer
• Sophie Robinson
• Keston Sutherland

Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton Admission £3.50

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Desperate For Love

Thursday 13th August, 8 - 11pm

• Tim Atkins
• Mat Colegate
• Lucy Harvest Clarke

Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN Admission £3.50

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Chlorine Readings

Monday 17th August, 7.30pm

• Jonty Tiplady
• Emily Critchley
• Josh Stanley
• Nick Lee (guitar)

The Hope, Queens' Road, Brighton Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

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Iain Sinclair at Corridor8

Thursday 16th July, 6.30pm (talk starts at 7pm)

Corridor8, a new international annual contemporary visual art and writing magazine, launches in July. Issue #1 takes as its central theme Will Alsop’s daring vision for the future of the North of England: his SuperCity — the vast urban corridor that proposes to unite cities and towns as disparate as Liverpool and Hull, extending overseas to Ireland in the West and Denmark in the East. Join us in Manchester on 16 July as we launch Corridor8 with an exclusive talk by the British author, essayist and psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair.

Urbis, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG Spaces are limited. To secure your place at the launch, please email si[at]corridor8[dot]co[dot]uk.

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Skylines Festival

Saturday 20th June. Academic forum held in the University of the Trees in Haldon Forest, chaired by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and featuring:

• Allen Fisher
• Redell Olsen
• Maggie O'Sullivan
• Anna Reckin
• Harriet Tarlo

Followed by an evening of poetry from, among others:

• Sean Bonney
• Allen Fisher
• Maggie O'Sullivan

The Skyline Festival is held in Exeter. Visit the website for further information and details of other events. via The Other Room

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