Transgression and Its Limits Conference

Saturday 29th - 30th May

Plenary speaker Prof. Fred Botting

Reading and Q & A Iain Banks

Is transgression more than the tradition of subverting tradition? Have the conditions of post-modernity exhausted our ability to be shocked?

The aim of this conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to consider transgressive tactics in literature, film, critical theory and other cultural productions. To what extent has transgression helped shape sexual, cultural and artistic landscapes of its own period?

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers focusing on transgressive, taboo-breaking and politically resistant acts in literature and the arts. Please send a 300-word abstract and a 50-word biography to Aspasia Stephanou, Matthew Foley and Neil McRobert at transgression@stir.ac.uk by 19th March.

University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA

via Keston Sutherland

Showtime: Openned TV

Sometime between 9 - 9.30pm tonight, 29th January, Openned will be broadcasting its first blogTV show, entitled Klatch 2.

You can watch our show on the Community > TV page. If you feel the urge you can head to blogTV and sign-up for a free account. You can then watch the show and chat to us and ask questions to, on the Openned blogTV page.

See you there hopefully!

Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman

Crossing the Line

Thursday 4th February, 7.30pm

• Abi Oborne
• Holly Pester
• James Wilkes

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

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

MOCK INTO THE BRAZEN DAY

Gareth Farmer:

yt communication in association with Farmer Workforce #1 proudly announce the the publication of a mélange of poems:

MOCK INTO THE BRAZEN DAY

by Gareth Farmer.

If you want to snip one up FOR FREE, please email The Provider with your address at

garethstuartfarmer@googlemail.com

TALKSTALKSTALKSTALKS

Late, late notice:

Wednesday 27th January, 7.30pm

Robert Hampson will talk on 'Frank O'Hara, Monuments and Memories'.

Birkbeck College, University of London, London (exact location TBC)

Admission is free, all welcome.

Christian Bök Reading

Late notice:

Wednesday 27th January, 6.30pm (workshop), 7.30pm (reading)

• Christian Bök
• Weyman Chan

Landon Branch Library, 167 Wortley Road, London

Admission is free.

Blue Bus

Tuesday 16th February, 7.30pm

• Paula Claire
• Antony John

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

Admissions: £5 / £3 conc.

Openned Podcast #1 - Harry Godwin

In the first of an ongoing audio series, Alex Davies and Steve Willey talk to Harry Godwin, poet and editor of The Arthur Shilling Press and Cleaves Journal. You can find the first episode on the Community > Podcast page.

In the very near future you will be able to subscribe to Openned Podcasts through iTunes (the first episode is currently awaiting approval). When this feature becomes available we will post an update.

Update on Monday 25 January, 2010 by Openned

You can now subscribe through iTunes.

Marianne Morris in Cambridge

Tuesday 26th January, 6.30pm

Launch of the second issue of Cambridge Literary Review

Heffer's Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TY

Wednesday 27th January, 8pm

with Luke Roberts and Leo Mellor

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Marianne is also appearing at the Dial Society reading.