Poetry Under the Arches #7

Thursday 30th September, 7.30 - 10.30pm

Poetry under the Arches is STILL Huddersfield's newest open-mic night. If you fancy reading just turn up and bring your poems or for more information email gareth_durasow@hotmail.com.

There will also be the new "Poetry Covers" slot where readers can share the work of their poetic heroes to a chorus of rapturous delight and chin-stroking.

Peacock Lounge, Viaduct St., Huddersfield HD1 5DL

Admission £2 (non-readers only)

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.

halfcircle poetry journal

halfcircle poetry is a new, free, monthly poetry magazine based in Oxford, UK.

The first issue of halfcircle poetry will be available from the 5th October in Oxford and Cambridge. We are now taking submissions for our first few editions. All interesting contemporary original poetry welcome. Submissions to tom.oliver.graham@gmail.com, arabella.currie@balliol.ox.ac.uk

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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.

via The Other Room

Update on Monday 13 September, 2010 by Openned

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

CLR Online

Some material featured in the print versions of the Cambridge Literary Review (issues 2 & 3) is now available online.