Wednesday 23rd March, 6 - 7.30pm
John Galsworthy Building JG0002, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames
Admission is free, all welcome
Openned
CANCELLED
Monday 14 March, 2011 tagged London Events in Ali Shahrukhi, False Economy, Jay Foreman, Josie Long, Jude Faultless, Rumour Cubes, Steve Willey, The Temp, UK Uncut 
Friday 18th March, 7 - 11.30pm
Evening of Music, Comedy and Debate in Opposition to the Cuts.
Comedy
Music
Speakers
389 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2TJ
Info and tickets: www.artuncut.org.uk
£3.50 (UK), Red Ceilings Press, 2011 (A6, 24 pages)
Salvador Sanchez made his professional boxing debut at 16 years of age in 1975. He amassed a record of 44 wins in 46 fights, with one loss and one draw. After beating the best fighters of his generation, he is considered by many as one of the greatest featherweight boxers ever. He died in a car crash, aged just 23.
Mark Cobley is looking for poetry for a new series of limited edition A6-sized pocket chapbooks, among other things, to be published by The Red Ceilings Press. Contact him for more information.
Sunday 13 March, 2011 tagged International Events, Online in A. Rawlings, Adeena Karasick, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen, Jordan Scott, Lisa Robertson, M. Nourbese Philip, Nicole Brossard, Sarah Dowling, Stephen Collis PennSound has made available videos from North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, organised by Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling, featuring:
Friday 18th March, 6 - 8pm
Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex): 'Propertius and/or Mr. Buggins'
Room G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, London
Openned
CANCELLED
Friday 11 March, 2011 tagged Calls for Work, UK Events in Greg Thomas, Lila Matsumoto, Samantha Walton Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th September 2011
The University of Edinburgh supported by The Roberts Fund and in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry Library, organised by Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas and Samantha Walton.
This two day postgraduate led conference will bring together poets and researchers to engage in a conversation about experimental, innovative and alternative approaches to poetic form. While many poets self-report that political objectives underlie their practice, in the realm of, but not limited to, ideology critique, the assertion or negation of identity and/or a confrontation with mainstream publishing, charges of elitism, passivity and inaccessibility can be levelled. Taking this point of tension as our catalyst, and adopting a trans-historical perspective, we wish to consider what “experimental” poetry is, and what it is for.
We are calling for twenty minute papers which: discuss poetry of any period or genre which challenges or aims to challenge convention through formal innovation and/or interaction with political, social and cultural realities; explore the labels we use to denote “experimental”, “avant-garde” or particular stylistic modes of verse; question whether political objectives and/or antagonisms can be articulated or furthered through radical approaches to composition and language; consider how readers engage with experimental poetry. Inseparable from these themes is the issue of what we perceive as 'the political', what counts as a political act and whether the writer has a responsibility to assert political agency; we are particularly interested in papers in which these questions are at the forefront of discussion.
Please send 250 - 300 word abstracts for 20-minute papers as a word attachment to conversifyconference@gmail.com by Monday 16th May 2011. There will also be evening poetry readings in town - please mention when you submit your abstract if you would be interested in reading.
19 George Square, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
WebsiteSteven Fowler:
Hilson’s use of distinctive vocabulary, a lexicon of the banal, utilises a finesse that pales the false poetic posturing of those working in circles created by perceptions of what has come before and held as the established “tone” of English poetry.
Read more here.
Thursday 10 March, 2011 tagged London Events Thursday 7th April - Thursday 5th May
Event line-ups, times, dates and admission fees can be found on the London Word Festival website.
