Poetry Readings in London

Poetry of Unknown Words: double-sided prints (shown recto and verso) by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell in response to work by Gertrude Stein, HD, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmy Hennings and Valerie Solanas

Stewart Home: part of Again, A Time Machine: a Book Works touring exhibition in six parts

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

Focusing on experimental writing, these workshops offer a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere for poets to share new work that pushes the boundaries of their art. These meetings aim to engage and encourage the broadest possible range of innovative practices and authors.

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

Marcus Slease, Lesley McKenna and Fran Lock

Estates: screenings/playings of Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald, 1996); Estate (Fugitive Images, forthcoming); Myths of Social Capitalism, Part 1 (Rastko Novakovic & Steven Ball, 2012); Heygate (Will Montgomery, 2010); followed by Q&A with the artists, filmmakers and author of Beautiful Thing, Jonathan Harvey

Lung Jazz: Young British Poets For Oxfam celebration reading: Alistair Noon, Chris McCabe, Eileen Pun, James Byrne, Jane Yeh, Neil Gregory, Sandeep Parmar, Sidhartha Bose, Tiffany Tondut & many others

Poetry Rodeo (London): Alistair Noon, Nia Davies, Edward Mackay, Andrew Frolish

The Life of High Rises: High Rises (Gabriel Mascaro, 2009) and Lift (Marc Isaacs, 2002); followed by discussion with Marc Isaacs (director, Lift), Luciana Martins (Birkbeck), Tom Cordell (director, Utopia London [2010]) and Richard Baxter (QMUL), chair Andrew Harris

Surrey Poetry Festival: Lisa Robertson, Sean Bonney, Redell Olsen, Ziba Karbassi, Sophie Mayer, Jow Lindsay, Stephen Mooney, Amy De'ath, Samantha Walton, Sophie Robinson, BA Creative Writing Students + films from Caroline Bergvall & Abigail Child

Stewart Home: part of Again, A Time Machine: a Book Works touring exhibition in six parts. The exhibition concludes with a night of readings by Home, and other Semina authors, Katrina Palmer and Bridget Penney, and screenings of cult kung-fu films, including Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Voiceworks 2012: Daniel Barrow, Patrick Brennan & Rosemary Clifford; Irum Fazal, Helgi Ingvarsson, Matthew Mcguigan & Claire Candy; Nell Stevens, Benjamin Graves & Anthony Birnie; Ollie Evans, Marta Lozano Molano, Megan Quick & Adam Gilbert; Steven Fowler, Theodoros Chatzidis & Clare Ghigo; Becky Cremin, Mark Simpson & Gina Walter; Edmund Hardy, Louis Chiappetta & Oskar Palmblad

Queer, The Space: The Event: 'Queer, The Space' is a project inspired by the work of such queer theorists as Sara Ahmed (Queer Phenomenology) and Judith Halberstam (In a Queer Time and Place). It brings together artists, academics, activists, performers, and writers in one space to engage with the questions of agency, spatiality, and orientation. This showcase presents our findings.

Poetry, Parapoetics and Architecture: Karen Mac Cormack: "Enmeshed Tessitura": Poetry & Architecture + Steve McCaffery: Parapoetics & the Architectural

Poetry & Revolution International Conference: Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis

Poetry and Revolution International Conference: Keynote Speakers: Mark Nowak + Jack Hirschman + Joan Retallack
VLAK: Special issue launch on Occupations one hour before Saturday night reading. (Times tbc)
Approximately 45 papers on a wide range of issues over the Saturday and Sunday. Speakers from Portugal, the USA, Ireland, & the UK
Liaisons and co-operation with Occupied and Free Spaces

The current crisis makes it possible to think what couldn't be thought before. With its echoes of previous crises of modern society, it places on the agenda a reappraisal of revolutionary art from the point of view of the necessities of the present.

Poetry & Revolution International Conference: Maggie O'Sullivan, Saadi Youssef (tbc), Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak

Writers Forum Workshop

At Writers Forum Workshop poets may learn from each other by encouraging each other. Negative comment is strongly discouraged as is point-scoring. This does not exclude discussion. Quite the opposite. Our focus is upon experimentation and innovation. Our approach is one of mutual respect.

for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)

Electronic Voice Phenomena // New Language Mediums: Anat Ben David + Steven Fowler & Ben Morris + Ross G Sutherland + Nathan Jones

Four experiments in voice, technology and transcommunication

Julie Carr, Christine Wertheim & Matias Viegener

Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack

London Book live! — International symposium and related live events
keynote speakers: Joan Fontcuberta (photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture from Barcelona) + Sharon Helgason Gallagher (founder and director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK in New York)
+ performance of the full twelve hours of John Cage's Empty Words by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag

The event will bring together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating 'on the page' work.

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

POLYply 20

D S Marriott, Sarah Kelly and Robert Sheppard

Writers Forum Workshop

for more information email Lawrence Upton (lDOTuptonATgoldDOTacDOTuk)

Frances Presley

The Camerade Project 3: Iain Sinclair & Tom Chivers; Allen Fisher & Philip Terry; Jeff Hilson & Robert Shepherd; Joe Dunthorne & Sam Riviere; Richard Barrett & Jonty Tiplady; Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks; Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis; Simon Barraclough & Isobel Dixon; Emma Bennett & Emma Bennett & Holly Pester; John Kinsella & Drew Milne; Andy Spragg & David Berridge; Maria Ferencuhova & Frances Kruk

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

John Muckle + Ann Prendergast + c-weed

Intercapillary Places: tbc

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

Juliet Troy + James Harvey + Giles Goodland

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

Maggie O'Sullivan + Paul Brown

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

Lisa Samuels + tba

Maurice Scully + Lee Harwood

Intercapillary Places: tbc

Printed in Norfolk: Coracle Publications 1989–2012

Printed in Norfolk will showcase artists' books, poetry, critical documents, ephemera, catalogues and anthologies. Poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts founded, and works under the name of Coracle. A key player in UK arts and publishing since the mid 1970s, Cutts and long-term co-director Erica Van Horn have recently been based in Ireland, working internationally on Coracle exhibitions, publications and other collaborations. Each venue will host a book room as part of the exhibition, where visitors will be able sit and leaf through books. Poets whose work will be featured include John Bevis, Thomas A Clark, Simon Cutts, Harry Gilonis, Susan Howe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Spike Hawkins, Cralan Kelder, Thomas Meyer, Stuart Mills, William Minor and Jonathan Williams.

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

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Tim Allen + Allen Fisher

Writers Forum Workshop – New Series

for more information email Antony John (antonyjohnfrancisAThotmailDOTcom) or Stephen Mooney (estaphinATgmailDOTcom)

Intercapillary Places: tbc