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December 1st 2007 7:30 The Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton Street WC2H 9BX The second series of the landmark Langoustine reading series continues with a fantastic year end finale featuring the best in innovative and experimental literature and performance. For this event we are proud to welcome back the poet and novelist Ronnie McGrath, making his second appearance at Langoustine, performing extracts from his new CD Acoustic Avant Gardism. Sharing the stage with Ronnie are poet and performance artist Eisha Karol with her Sea Suite which includes electronic soundscapes, tabla and flamenco dance. Eisha Karol spoken word Carolina Esteves flamenco dance Sandhya Sanjana Indian classical vocal Steve Abu Nab tabla Arne Sjogren film Imran Ahmad electronic soundscape Stephen Watts will also be joining us. Watts, an ex-Shepard is the author of three books of poetry and a highly regarded translator of contemporary Kurdish, Slovenian and Persian poets. And in an exclusive performance for Langoustine, Anthony Joseph presents new work from his forthcoming collection. Hosted as always by Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph. There may be other surprise performances… Expect magic.

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Over your left/right shoulder

'If you're out and about in the UK, pop into your local branch of Waterstone's or Borders, stroll over to the poetry section and LOOK AT SALT BOOKS!! We are delighted and thrilled to bits that our poetry books are being taken into core stock. Borders are also stocking our short story books.' Whatdoesthismeanforusall??? Link

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The Life and Times of the Rev Robert Shields

'He spent a quarter of a century chronicling his life in five-minute segments. In his journal he faithfully recorded his reflections on God and his every visit to the lavatory. He even taped a nostril hair to its pages so that future scientists can study his DNA. He slept for just two hours at a time so that he could record his dreams. He had three dozen ways of describing the act of urination. At his most prolific, he wrote three million words a year. Now the Rev Robert Shields has died, aged 89, leaving a 37.5 million-word document that fills 91 boxes.' Link

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Name of deceased:

BBC History Magazine: 'We had a marvellous response to our search for Britain’s most surprising, enigmatic or bizarre epitaphs. Here is the winner, and four runners-up...' Link

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Calder Bookshop reading

Ken Edwards, Jeff Hilson and David Miller will be reading at the Calder Bookshop (also known as The Bookshop Theatre), 51 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1, on Wednesday the 14th of November, 7.00. Nearest tubes: Waterloo, Southwark. (The bookshop is across the road from the Young Vic Theatre.) Admission: free.

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Xing the Line

Friday 2 November, 8pm Tim Atkins launching his translations of Horace Philip Terry launches Oulipoems The Horseshoe Inn 26 Melior Street London Bridge SE1 3QP £5/£3

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Textract recovered from time travelled SpacePod circa 2076

'...global warming finally addressed when climate change affected mass-market wine stocks...'

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Long time no see

La Langoustine est Morte 03 Nov 2007, 19:30 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX, london, London and South East WC2H 9BX Cost : £5/4 A prime night in London dedicated to international, experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance. Expect an amalgam of forms and energies. Hosted by: Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph. Line-up to be announced

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Vonnegut and Heller - The Next Novel

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Anarchist Bookfair

Sat 27 Oct 10-7 Queen Mary & Westfield College Books, speakers, meetings, workshops This year's stall holders: Northern Herald Books, Haven Distribution, Tangent Books, Northern Anarchist Network, Chronos Publications, Haringey Solidarity Group, Haringey Independent Cinema, Autonomedia (USA), The Cunningham Amendment, Total Liberty, Bristle Collective, Kebele Social Centre, Anarchist Black Cross (Brighton), AK Press & Distribution, Active Distribution, Hobgoblin, Now or Never, Advisory Service for Squatters, Godhaven Ink, Anarchy is Order (Belguim), Global Women's Strike, Corporate Watch, Cowley Club, Brighton Feminist Health Collective, Kate Sharpley Library, Alpine Anarchist Productions, Barbary Coast books, CIRA Lausanne (Switzerland), Reel News, Radical Routes, Workers Council Socialism, Radical Anthropology Group, Entartete Kunst (USA), Just Seeds, Artists Cooperative (USA), Past Tense Publications. Socialist Patients' Collective (Germany), Rising Tide Network, Anarchist Federation, Aufheben, Stair, Class War, Notes from the Borderland, Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland), Meta Mute Magazine, Indymedia, London Solidarity Federation, Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity group, International Workers of the World, Lib Ed, Freedom Bookshop and Distribution, ALF Supporters Group, From Dusk ‘til Dawn, Hobnail Press, Black Flag, Last Hours, No Sweat, Education Workers Network, No:ID, Screen printing and gallery, Defy ID, Re-pressed Distribution, Housmans Bookshop, The Escapades Collective, London Coalition Against Poverty, RAG dublin / Seomra Spraoi social centre (Ireland), Veggies Catering, Project for Participatory Society, Organise (Ireland), Free Mumia, Gertrude, No Borders Campaign, Mayday Magazine, Hunt Saboteurs Association, Kiptik.

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