Yes, this is geographically limited! I can only personally get a sense of what's taking place in London (which I live just outside of). It should go without saying this list is also limited largely to those events including poets whose work I value.
And here are good contacts for what I believe are the other English innovative poetry scenes at present that may interest Great Works and modernpoetry.org.uk users:
Other good listings of events are on Openned, Vents, and also Shearsman. You will find also some worthwhile stuff on Poets on Fire, which has a national coverage. Another excellent source of information is the Poetry Library's newsletter. Try too, though it is not always up to date, the readings and other events section of Great Works' Links page.
Email me to give me details of any readings or other events to put on this page.
Thursday |
Michael McClure |
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place WC1A 2JL |
Saturday |
Jennifer Pike Cobbing 90th Birthday Celebration: workshop |
Writers Forum: The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell EC1R 3BL |
24th June–25th July |
Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959–1969: |
Flat Time House 210 Bellenden Road, Peckham SE15 4BW |
Tuesday |
Sina Queyras, Michael J Weller & Michael Zand |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN |
Wednesday–Friday |
Conference: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival, organised by Emily Critchley & Carol Watts |
Co-hosted by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre Birkbeck and the University of Greenwich at University of Greenwich: Old Royal Naval College, Lecture Theatres KW315 and KW303, University of Greenwich, Greenwich SE10 9LS |
Thursday |
Theatre of the Absurd presents What Lovely Weather! by André Breton, Benjamin Péret & Robert Desnos, trans Susan de Muth |
The Surreal House Events: Barbican Centre, Silk St EC2Y 8DS |
Tuesday |
Jeff Hilson and Carol Watts |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Tuesday |
Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde: |
Curzon Soho Mezzanine Bar, 99 Shaftesbury Ave W1D 5DY |
Wednesday |
David Buuck Talk/Reading: 'Bay Area Sneaks: Writing/Framing/Space' |
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, The Council Room, Malet Street main building, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr) |
Friday |
Lisa Jarnot |
The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Saturday |
Veer Books Launch: Out To Lunch Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer 026) & Cris Paul stenia cultus handbook (Veer 026) |
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, The Council Room, Malet Street main building, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr) |
Wednesday |
Launch of Louis Aragon's 'A Wave of Dreams' (translation, Susan de Muth; introduction, Dawn Ades) — a hybrid book-CD project — with live music from Tymon Dogg & Alex Thomas & spoken word by Alex Walker |
Thin Man Press at Red, 1-3 Rivington Street EC2A 3DT |
Thursday |
Keston Sutherland |
Parasol unit: 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW |
Sundays |
Theatre of the Absurd presents What Lovely Weather! by André Breton, Benjamin Péret & Robert Desnos, trans Susan de Muth |
Surrealist Tea Party at The Last Days of Decadence: 145 Shoreditch High St E1 6JE |
Saturday |
Openned Table @ Café 1001 |
Café 1001: 1 Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL
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Tuesday |
Adrian Clarke, Wayne Clements and Michael Zand |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Wednesday |
Richard Parker + Tim Atkins + Michael Kindellan + Linus Slug + Rumour Cubes |
Openned Book Launch: Carnivale, 2 White Church Lane E1 7QR |
Saturday |
The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell EC1R 3BL |
Wednesday–Friday |
Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry: poets to include Peter Riley, Allen Fisher and Iain Sinclair |
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2010, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore SW7 2AR |
Tuesday |
Ken Edwards and Harry Gilonis |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Tuesday |
Peter Riley and Damian tba |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH |
Tuesday |
Robert Sheppard and Hazel Smith |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Tuesday |
tba |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH |
Tuesday |
Christopher Gutkind and James Wilkes |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Friday 12th |
readings (usually through Saturday) tba |
Small Publishers Fair: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL |
Tuesday |
tba |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH |