Keston Sutherland Reading in Helsinki

Videos of Keston Sutherland reading in Helsinki are now available here and here.

Sean Bonney - 5 poems after Rimbaud (Second Run)

A second run of Sean Bonney's 5 poems after Rimbaud is now available from Grasp Press. 10 of the 30 copies have already been sold, so be quick.

Crater 1

Richard Parker:

Crater Press announces Crater 1 - it's an unusual articulated broadside item featuring 6 poems by (young lion of the avant-garde) Michael Kindellan, and a reversible cover MK poster doodab for your wall when you're done reading.

Available via the lovely new Crater Press website.

Xing the Line - New Venue

Wednesday 22nd September, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney
• Jeff Hilson

William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7QE (tube: Old Street)

via Vents

Full Metal Poem

FMP is an irreverent new Magazine edited from Amsterdam and Hamburg and filled with Poetry Art Photography. It's a beautiful numbered edition of 250 - around 100 pages with stencil-printing and a wrap-around handbound jacket.

Website

via Crg Hill

Scree 2 Launch

Wednesday 15th September, 7.30pm

• Francis Crot
• Pete McConville
• nick-e melville
• Posie Rider

Plus music.

Old. St. Paul's Church, 39 Jeffrey St., Edinburgh

Admission £5

The Other Room: Fisher, O'Sullivan, Rothenberg

GOBSMACKED – Call for Postgraduate Students Researching Performance

Saturday 20th November, 10am - 8pm

GOBSMACKED is a one-day conference that will take place on 20th November, 2010 at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). Part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Beyond Text programme, it is organised by QMUL PhD candidates Johanna Linsley and Helena Walsh.

Writing in 1962 Susan Sontag stated: “To describe a Happening for those who have not seen one means dwelling on what Happenings are not.” Set within this context of a critical loss for words, GOBSMACKED focuses on the ways in which experimental performance practices that fall within the brackets of ‘live art’, ‘performance art’ and ‘body art’ may elicit a failure of language. In titling our conference GOBSMACKED we purposefully draw on the reputation of these performance categories for that which is shocking, explicit or provocative. However, we wish to consider the many other ways in which experimental performance practice can effect a failure of speech amongst those who experience it.

During the conference, academic panels will alternate with artists presenting on relevant aspects of their practices. These include: Aine Phillips, Silke Mansholt, Chris Goode, Mat Fraser, Lena Simic, Helena Hunter, Brian Lobel, UnionDocs.

We are seeking 15-minute papers or presentations from postgraduate students researching Live Art. We encourage innovative forms and approaches.

Deadline 5pm, Friday 22nd October gobsmacked.conference@gmail.com.

Successful applicants will be informed by Friday 29th October.

Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Update on Wednesday 17 November, 2010 by Openned

Please note the start time is 9am, not 10am as originally stated.

Two New Books from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press and Three New Chapbooks from No Press

The Other Room has details of two new chapbooks from Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, by Heller Levinson and Harry Ross, and three new chapbooks from No Press, by Stephane Mallarme, Lawrence Upton and Paul William Zits.

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