Thank You So Much, We Raised £1,262.42

Thank you to all the poets that read at Openned last night for the Land for Lajee Project, thank you to everyone that came, thank you to the Small Presses that donated to the book table. These presses are: Veer Books, Critical Documents, Grasp Press, Hot Gun!, Street Cake, Sheersman, Reality Street, The Arthur Shilling Press, Barque Press and the best book shop for poetry in London, West End Lane Books, Bad Press and Yt Communication. I hope I have not missed anyone. If I have send me an email and I will add your name onto this post.

The poets that read at the event were, Sean Bonney, Sophie Robinson, Harry Gilonis, Josh Stanley, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Nat Raha, Posie Rider, Peter Philpott, Alan Hay, Michael Zand, Amy De'Ath, Frances Kruk, Steve Willey, Justin Katko, Adnan al-Sayegh, Will Rowe, and Palestinian poet Soumaya Susi who is currently living in Gaza, her poem was read by her brother. 

Thank you to all the individual poets that donated books to the table, you are too numerous to name, but I remember Harry Gilonis, and Peter Philpott putting a massive load down... there were others too. 

Thank you to Andrea Brady, as although she could not make it to the reading she donated an old copy of Grosseteste Review that was eventually auctioned off for thirty five pounds. Thanks to Joe Sacco for signing and drawing in his book Palestine, this was also auctioned off.

We raised a phenomenal £1,262.42

The next Openned night will be on the 25th of November if you want to know more about the Land for Lajee project check out the Upcoming section on the Nights page.

Best

Steve

P.S. If anyone did make any documentation of the night, photographs, poems, things like that it would be great to see it.

Documenting Openned

Tonight is the Land for Lajee Openned fundraiser. More details are on our Upcoming page.

We would like to ask all of you who are attending to document the reading in some way. This could be video, photography, audio recording, straightforward written documentation, a poem, a single line written on a scrap of paper - anything. Then upload it through our Submit page.

We look forward to receiving it.

TALKSTALKSTALKS

All talks take place on a Wednesday and begin at 7.30pm.

• 28th October: Jonathan Kauphmann
• 11th November: Alison Croggan
• 25th November: Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary
• 9th December: Rebecca Cremin & Ryan Ormonde

Room B29, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX

Admission is free.

Cantos Reading Group

All events begin at 6pm.

The London Cantos Reading Group continues this year; all are welcome, includes wine. Each meeting we will approach an individual canto introduced by a guest speaker:

• 16th October, Nick Selby (Canto 31)
• 13th November, Stephen Wilson (Canto 34)
• 11th December, Harry Gilonis (A chinese Canto)
• 15th January 2010, Richard Parker (Canto 120)
• 12th February, Alex Pestell (Canto 109)
• 12th March, David Barnes (Canto 3)
• 16th April, David Moody (Canto 41)
• 14th May, Stoddard Martin (Canto 84)
• 11th June, Eric White (Canto 32)

North Wing, Senate House, University of London

Admission is free.

Cambridge Literary Review

Featuring poetry and fiction from: 

• Richard Berengarten
• Emily Critchley
• Debora Greger
• John James
• Justin Katko & Jow Lindsay
• John Kinsella
• Charles Lambert
• Tom Lowenstein
• Helen Macdonald
• John Matthias
• Anna Mendelssohn
• Marianne Morris
• Ian Patterson
• J.H. Prynne
• Peter Riley
• Luke Roberts
• Avery Slater
• Rosie Šnajdr
• Josh Stanley
• Keston Sutherland
• Timothy Thornton
• John Wilkinson 

Essays from:

• Raymond Geuss - 'Vix intellegitur'
• Stefan Collini - 'Understanding and judgement in the humanities'
• Rebecca Stott - 'Tangling with history'
• Philip Pettit on the Cambridge Review

Plus a feature on Cambridge poetry:

• Jeremy Noel-Tod - 'A History of Difficulty: On Cambridge Poetry'
• Andrew Duncan introducing Charles Madge's 'The Storming of the Brain' (1950)
• Peter Riley introducing a selection of poems by Raymond Crump
• Elaine Feinstein on Prospect
• Richard Berengarten on the 1975 Cambridge Poetry Festival
• Gareth Farmer on Veronica Forrest-Thomson
• John Hall on Douglas Oliver's 'Arrondissements'
• Rod Mengham on Andrew Crozier's 'Free Running Bitch'
• Christina MacLeish on Roger Langley and Nigel Wheale
• Robert Archambeau - 'Public Faces In Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry'
• Marianne Morris 'On Disorder'

You can purchase a single issue for £8 or subscribe for three issues over the year for £20. Visit the website to order.

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Launch Events

Thursday 8th October, 6.30pm

A joint celebration of the launch of the Journal and Edge Hill's decade of poetics by speaker/editor Scott Thurston.

Education Building E21, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

The other two launch events will be standalone, and incorporate speeches and discussion of the journal. As well as an opportunity for editorial board members to meet with readers and contributors to the journal.

Wednesday 21st October, 7.30pm

Main Building (Room B29) Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street WC1E 7HX

Wednesday 9th December, (time TBC)

• Ian Davidson
• Allen Fisher
• Christine Kennedy

University of Salford

Further details to be posted in due course.

Jonty Tiplady - Recovery

17 all new unpublished or unemailed out poems.

Adult themes, Nicholas Lyndhurst, ghetto smurfs. 

£5, cash, or cheque payable to:

J Tiplady at F16, 75 Montpelier Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 3BD

For more details e-mail jtiplady@gmail.com.

if p then q Issue 4

Now available. Featuring work and poetry by, and/or interviews with:

• Caroline Bergvall
• Charles Bernstein
• Philip Davenport
• Ray Dipalma
• Allen Fisher
• Lucy Harvest Clarke
• Joy As Tiresome Vandalism
• Richard Makin
• Andrew Shelley
• Scott Thurston

£4 from the if p then q website.

via The Other Room

Trevor Joyce, Susan Howe and David Grubbs in Cambridge

Friday 9th October, 7.30pm

• Trevor Joyce
• Susan Howe
• David Grubbs

Trevor Joyce will read from his work followed by a joint performance by Susan Howe and David Grubbs after the interval.

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Sigdwick Avenue, Cambridge

Admission free.

Welcome

Welcome to the revitalised Openned. The new website will give us the opportunity to showcase poetry and poets better than before. It should also (fingers crossed) be a lot easier to use. To get us off to a good start, we have a bumper selection of new blog posts below. Enjoy.