London Word Festival 2010

Sunday 7th March - Thursday 1st April

A wide variety of literary events taking place throughout the capital. Openned has compiled an edited PDF of all the events courtesy of Tom Chivers. We have highlighted two in the PDF that might catch your interest.

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Raul Zurita - INRI Launch

Raul Zurita - INRI (trans. William Rowe)

$14.95 USD + shipping, Marick Press, 2009 (Paperback, 120 pages)

ISBN 10 1-934851-04-3
ISBN 13 978-1-934851-04-3

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 3rd March, 8pm

A reading by Raul Zurita, with translation by William Rowe.

The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX.

Admission is free, all welcome (refreshments provided).

Blue Bus

Tuesday 9th March, 7.30pm

• Tim Allen
• Philip Kuhn

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room)

Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)

streetcake submissions

streetcake is accepting submissions for issue 10 up until the 10th March. Head to their website for details of how to submit.

Crossing the Line

Wednesday 3rd March, 7.30pm

• Anthony Mellors
• Robert Sheppard

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN

Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)

Off The Shelf

OFF THE SHELF

                                    Monday 22 March 6 - 10:30 p.m.

OFF THE SHELF, is an event that involves musicians, poets, painters and film makers, it is structured around, and is in dialogue with, the Small Press and Little Magazine Collection at UCL. 

Over the next two weeks I am going to try and put together a short Ten Minute Film about Writers Forum and AND Magazine which will be shown at this event.

I will be filming over an EIGHT-DAY period, from 3 - 10 March. I will be editing the film on the 11 March. I will be submitting the film on the 12 March for inclusion in the event on the 22 March. So a very tight turn around.

Please email me before the 3 march (swilley17[at]aol[dot]com) to let me know your availability between the 3-10 march (all the possible times you could be free) and i will endeavor to meet with as many people as I can within that time frame. To structure the film I propose to film short responses to the following topics (see below) from poets that have been involved/published in AND magazine and by Writers Forum. 

I know that by working with such a short time frame the film will not be an authoritative or comprehensive record of the long and amazing projects that are Writers Forum Press and AND magazine but i hope the film will be a worthwhile document which will raise the profile of AND Magazine and Writers Forum Press and act as an introduction to these projects.

Some Topics to Stimulate Conversation (not necessarily to be followed):

• How did you find out about AND Magazine and Writers Forum Press?

• What was the first poem that you ever had published in AND?

• What was the first work you had published by Writers Forum Press?

• If you only had 20 words how would you describe AND Magazine and/or Writers Forum Press.

• How has being involved with Writers Forum Press and/or AND Magazine effected your poetry, in aesthetic,  political or social terms?

• To your mind, over the period you have been acquainted with AND Magazine, and/or Writers Forum Press,  what were the most significant social, aesthetic and/or political changes, that have both effected AND  Magazine and Writers Forum Press, and/or have been represented by And Magazine and the Press?

• What is the most important question that I should have asked that I haven't and what is the answer?

• Can you now read a poem you like from either one of the And Magazines or from on of the Writers Forum  Publications?

• How significant has the work of Bob Cobbing been to your practice as a poet?

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS POST  TO ANYONE CONNECTED TO WRITERS FORUM OR AND, WHO YOU THINK MIGHT WANT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FILM.

I AM BASED IN LONDON BUT CAN DRIVE TO FILM YOU (and i am willing to travel). HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR OWN FILMING EQUIPMENT AND/OR LIVE ABROAD, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FILM YOUR OWN RESPONSES TO THE ABOVE TOPICS AND SEND ME THE FOOTAGE IN HIGH RESOLUTION QUICK TIME FORMAT BEFORE THE 10TH OF MARCH. YOU CAN EMAIL ME or ask me FOR MY POSTAL ADDRESS ON THE EMAIL INCLUDED IN THIS POST.

An Evening With Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair

Monday 1st March, 6.30 - 9pm

• Brian Catling
• Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair will give a reading with poet, sculptor and performance artist Brian Catling, as part of Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, our bicentenary exhibition. The evening will be a chance to view the show, and in particular items of interest from the Society's archives, specifically selected by Iain Sinclair.

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Advance booking is highly recommended. Contact nora@swedenborg.org.uk or call 0207 405 7986.

The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

press free press

press free press is Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu.

press free press is a poetic collective

press free press is a restless poetic collective, committed to poetics and performance, yet restless within poetic and performance scenes: committed to dialogue and response, democracy and openness of practice.

Check out the website.

2nd Hay Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th June, 2010

Thursday 3rd:

• 6.30 - 7.30pm Festival launch and reception
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Robert Minhinnick, Childe Roland (aka Peter Meilleur)

Friday 4th:

• 2 - 4pm Keri Finlayson, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola, Samantha Rhydderch, John Goodby
• 5 - 6pm Zoe Brigley lecture, 'Surrealism and Welsh Poetry'
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey

Saturday 5th:

• 11am -12pm Phil Maillard, Ric Hool, Richard Gwyn
• 2 - 6pm Randolph Healy, Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding and other readers from the anthology Infinite Difference; launches of special Welsh issue of Angel Exhaust and of new Poetry Wales; Performance by Kathryn Ashill, other art events
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Elisabeth Bletsoe, Caroline Bergvall

Oriel Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay-on-Wye

Admission to 7.30pm events: £5 / £3 conc.

All other events free (voluntary £2 contribution welcome).

For further details and bookings, contact Lyndon Davies.

Facebook Event

via John Goodby

Sean Bonney at Edge Hill (CANCELLED)

Please note the reading this Thursday 25th February featuring Sean Bonney at Edge Hill has been cancelled.