Counting Backwards #5

POLYply 7 - Translation

Poetry Wales: Winter 2010/11 Issue 46.3

Allen Ginsberg and the Story of Howl

Wednesday 2nd February, 8pm

Special Edition is pleased to present an evening exploring the groundbreaking poem by the luminary of the Beat generation. This event, celebrating the release of the film Howl later in the month, includes a reading of the poem and a talk on Ginsberg and the Beats.

Featuring:

• Mark Ford
• Iain Sinclair
• Jack Underwood

Admission free but space is limited, so arrive early to avoid disappointment. To guarantee a place email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

MIMEO MIMEO 4

The fourth issue of MIMEO MIMEO is now available.

Featuring:

• Language: Enemy, Pursuit by Asa Benveniste, poet and publisher of London’s legendary Trigram Press
• Interview with Tom Raworth about Trigram, Zephyrus Image and Goliard (conducted by Matt Chambers and Kyle Schlesinger)
• UK Small Press Publishing Since 1960 by Ken Edwards
• Interview with David Meltzer about British Poetry Revival (conducted by Alastair Johnston)
• Abysses and Quick Vicissitudes: Some Notes on the Mimeo Editions of Bill Griffiths by Alan Halsey
• Selection of letters from Eric Mottram to Jeff Nuttall
• Before I Became Modern Art Interview with Trevor Winkfield (conducted by Miles Champion)
• CAT-Scanning the Little Magazine by Richard Price

Cover by Trevor Winkfield.

via Kyle Schlesinger

Conference: Contemporary Poetry and the University

Saturday 7th May 2011

Proposals from practitioners of poetry, academics, and post-graduate students are invited for the symposium ‘Contemporary Poetry and the University’, at Girton College, Cambridge. The conveners hope that potential contributors will interpret this theme as broadly as possible, and would welcome proposals on any relevant subject.

Possible areas to consider might include:

• University teaching of contemporary poetry
• Constructive relationships between poets and university-based research/teaching initiatives
• Universities and poetic traditions
• The institutionalization of creative writing
• The current reforms of higher-education funding and their impact on the teaching and production of poetry within the university
• 'Impact' and creative writing
• The relationship between academic journals and contemporary poetry
• Archiving contemporary poetry
• Contemporary poetry and the essay

Proposals (300 words) for twenty-minute papers should be submitted to Dr. Adam Crothers by Thursday 17th March 2011.

This symposium will coincide with the awarding of the first Girton College Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.

via Sam Ladkin

Andy Spragg Interviews Tom Raworth

Andy Spragg has interviewed Tom Raworth for Miso Sensitive, a site dedicated to interviewing writers and others. While they make soup.

The Blue Bus

Tuesday 8th February, 7.30pm

• Laurie Duggan
• David Miller
• Juliet Troy
• Ken White

The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1

Admission is free, donations welcome.

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