Tuesday
Oct232007
Thursday
Oct182007
Birkbeck: Bill Griffiths
Thursday 18 October, 2007 Bill Griffiths: A Commemoration Saturday 17th November. 2-5 pm Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1
Wednesday
Oct172007
New Scientist: Language 'mutations' affect least-used words
Wednesday 17 October, 2007 'As languages evolve over centuries and millennia, the most frequently used words tend to remain unaltered, while rarer words are more likely to change. This tendency was long suspected, but has now been proven rigorously for the first time by two new studies. The results show that the tools of evolutionary biology can be applied to study the evolution of cultural artefacts like language.' Link
Tuesday
Oct162007
The Blue Bus: Stephen Watts, Christopher Gutkind and Richard Leigh
Tuesday 16 October, 2007 Stephen Watts, Christopher Gutkind and Richard Leigh will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Thursday 25th October. This is the sixth in THE BLUE BUS series, and it will include the launch of Richard Leigh’s first full-length poetry collection. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn. Lee Harwood and Laurie Duggan will be reading in the series on Thursday 22nd November, 7.30, at The Lamb. The Blue Bus will take a break in December, and then return with a poetry and music event on Wednesday 16th January, 7.30, at St Andrew’s, Short Street, London SE1. This will feature the Australian jazz guitarist Ken White, American poet, translator and sarangi-player Louise Landes Levi, poet Alyson Torns, and clarinettist David Miller (performing with Ken White).
Friday
Oct122007
The Darjeeling Limited
Friday 12 October, 2007 From Everyone's cup of tea: 'The Small Publishers Fair, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th October 2007, at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, nearest tube Holborn. I’ll be on a stall representing for yt communication, Bad Press, Barque Press, & Les Figues w/ maybe one or two cudbots from Critical Documents, Arehouse.' 'Saturday’s readings: 2.00 Sophie Robinson (Americat triumphant, will waddle in heraldically rampant & do the whole reading like that), Rosheen Brennan (says in spectacular finale she'll morph to a civil serpent before your cozened eyes, thinx there are “emergency exits open in her night” (Jeremy Reed) but hasn’t read Misery (Stephen King) closely enough), Steve Willey (something’s snapped inside him – see what’s left), John Sparrow (promised not to breathe lattices of luminous pre-linguistic jelly again then laughed) 2.30 John Bevis (not John Bevis but John Bevi, pl., live on their backs on the sea) 3.00 Eugen Gomringer, talk and reading (no data on this operative: assume he ghost wrote To Pollen) 4.00 Ken Edwards & David Miller (Ken may army at us, bare; David always frisbees mouthfeel discs where they don’t belong) 4.30 Les Coleman (when he is old, he will warp purple) 5.30 Jeff Hilson (the only American ever buried at the Kremlin) & Marianne Morris (pissed so hard on a lamppost it fell down, nailing in a bollard) & maybe Mike Sutherland Wallace-Hadrill (toy gid), & maybe Emily Critchley (sloe djinn) in the audience'
Thursday
Oct112007
Veer launch and reading
Thursday 11 October, 2007 7.30 pm Thursday 11th October THE FOUNDRY Great Eastern ST Featuring one of our favourites, John Sparrow. Itch Away John, Itch Away.
Tuesday
Oct092007
Nicholas Moore's random word generator
Tuesday 9 October, 2007 'THE RTG- Nicholas Moore created The Random Text Generator with his brother Steve Moore. Together they intend to rule to known universe, by discovering the name of every thing that can ever, has ever and will ever exist.' Click the plus button and you can make more than one word appear at a time. Amees sawyg tawi os, havuta?
Thursday
Oct042007
He exclaimed with great relish
Thursday 4 October, 2007 Thanks to all of you who came last night. We had a lot of regulars missing so it was great to see the room full of new faces. Hopefully you'll all be there at the next reading too. Keep checking the site for announcements regarding the next night and remember, if you want to be added to our mailing list please drop us an e-mail at editors [at] openned [dot] com.