Dartington and Falmouth Events

Events taking place at UCF Dartington Campus, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EJ:

• Tuesday 20th October, Studio 4, 6pm: Writer’s Talk – Tony Lopez discuses his recent book Darwin
• Thursday 22nd October, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 1: The Poetry of Andrea Brady
• Thursday 12th November, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 2: The Textual Practice of Caroline Bergvall
• Thursday 19th November, Studio 3, 7.30pm: Dartington Campus Readings 2 – Harriet Tarlo and David Prior
• Tuesday 24th November: Workshop (Dartington Studio, 2pm) and Writer’s Talk (Studio 4, 6pm) – Erin Moure
• Wednesday 25th November: Workshop (Studio 31, 2pm) and Poetry Reading (Studio 3, 7pm) – Erin Moure
• Thursday 3rd December, Studio 3, 7.30pm: Dartington Campus Readings 3 – JR Carpenter, Emily Critchley, Jow Lindsay 
• Thursday 10th December, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 3: The Poetry of Andrea Brady
• Thursday 21st January 2010, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 4: The Textual Practice of Caroline Bergvall
• Thursday 11th February, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 5: The Poetry of Andrea Brady
• Thursday 4th March, Studio 5, 6.15pm: Reading Group 6: The Textual Practice of Caroline Bergvall

Events taking place at UCF Woodlane Campus, Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH: 

• Friday 27th November: Workshop (Studio A, 2pm) and Writer’s Talk (Woodlane Lecture Theatre, 6.30pm) – JR Carpenter
• Saturday 28th November, Studio A, 10am: Workshop Pt.2 – JR Carpenter

Events taking place at UCF Tremough Campus, Tremough, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ:

• Thursday 5th November, Tremough Campus Chapel Lecture Theatre, 4.30pm: Writer’s Talk -  Simon Van Booy

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Concrete Poetry in Edinburgh

There are a number of concrete poetry events and exhibitions taking place in Edinburgh up until new year, below is the programme of events.

Monday 19th October, 7.30pm

Key Concrete Works 

Artist and publisher David Bellingham talks about his favourite concrete poems

The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Saturday 24th October, 11am - 12pm

Navigating Concrete 

A guided tour of exhibited works with Librarian Julie Johnstone

The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT

Tue 27 October, 6.30-8.30pm

Reading Concrete 

Reading group session looking at concrete poems

The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT

Friday 6th November, 7.30pm

Robert Lax 

An evening of video and readings, with Alan Spence & Julie Johnstone

Old St Paul’s Church, 63 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DH

Monday 23rd November, 12.45 - 1.15pm

A Model of Order: Concrete Poetry 

A talk by Kerry Watson, Librarian 

Dean Gallery, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR

Saturday 28th November, 2 - 5pm

Sound poetry day 

Drop in to listen to recordings and short talks

The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT

There are also simultaneous exhibitions running in the Scottish Poetry Library and the Dean Gallery from 3rd October through to the new year, featuring work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Augusto de Campos, Eugen Gomringer and others.

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Writers Forum

Saturday 17th October, 3.30pm (4pm start)

The next Writers Forum workshop. I think I am going to go, it would be good to see other people there too as well.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road EC1

Steve

Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon

Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th October, 10am - 6pm

The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA (Tube: South Kensington or Lancaster Gate)

£10 - £15 (day ticket) / £20 - £25 (weekend pass)

Tickets are available from the Gallery lobby desk or Ticketweb (0844 477 1000).

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Crater

Featuring work by:

• Michael Kindellan
• Harry Gilonis
• Jonty Tiplady
• Robert Rehder
• Joel Duncan
• Francesca Lisette
• Sara Crangle
• Daniel Kane
• Gareth Farmer
• Tom Raworth
• Stephen Rodefer
• Alex Pestell

There are only 58 copies so head to Richard Parker's blog for information on how to order.

Disclaimer: it's not our fault if they are all gone.

Update on Wednesday 14 October, 2009 by Openned

Sold out!

The Blue Bus

Tuesday 20th October, 7.30pm

• Jeremy Hilton
• Ric Hool
• Maurice Scully

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

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Land for Lajee Fundraiser, 6th October 2009

Video of the Land for Lajee Fundraiser night is now available to view for those not able to make it. Thank you again for all your donations.

Reader

We used to have a feature on the old Openned website called the Reader, which collected news and blog posts from nearly 100 poetry websites around the internet and presented them in a browsable list. It has taken us a while, but the Reader is now up and running on the new site (there is also a permanent direct link to it in the top navigation bar). The new version features more expansive previews of collected posts and is hopefully more readable too.

La Langoustine Est Morte

Saturday 7th November, time TBC

• Caroline Bergvall
• Andreas Von Grant
• Tommy Peeps
• Gerard Rudolf

The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 9NX

Joan Retallack - Poetry and the Mirror of Nature

Thursday 15th October, 5pm

Joan Retallack will give an lecture and reading entitled: 'Poetry and the Mirror of Nature'

Little Hall, Sigdwick Site, University of Cambridge

Admission is free.

There will also be a two-day symposium of talks to accompany her visit:

Thursday 15th October, 2 - 4pm
The Poetry of Joan Retallack 

• Dr. Ian Davidson (Bangor): 'Experimental poetry and memory in the work of Joan Retallack'
• Dr. Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London): Noise on: 'The Experimental Feminine'
• Dr. Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan): 'Aesthetic Swerve'

Friday 16th October, 10am - 5.30pm
Symposium on contemporary poetry and poetics: 

• Dr. Drew Milne, welcome and introductory remarks
• Prof.Will Rowe (Birkbeck): 'The world occasion: syntax in Witt and Stein'
• Dr. Zoe Skoulding (Bangor): 'Dislocution and the Experimental Feminine'
• Alec Finlay: will present and discuss his work as a poet and artist
• John Hall (Dartington) 'Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing'
• Larry Lynch (Dartington) will present and discuss their work
• Dr. Drew Milne (Cambridge University): 'Reading Procedures and Contemporary Poetics'
• Poetry readings by Ian Patterson (Cambridge University), Zoe Skoulding (Bangor), and Ian Davidson (Bangor).