Poetry Readings in London

Louis Aragon's A Wave of Dreams, with Alex Walker (spoken word), Tymon Dogg (multi-instrumentalist), Alex Thomas (electronics, violin)

Launch for Peter Robinson, The Returning Sky + Tony Lopez, Only More So and False Memory

Gemma Seltzer/Penned in the Margins: Gemma Seltzer and Tom Chivers

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)

Linda Black

The Camerade Project 2: Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland; Maria Fusco & Andrea Brady; Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry; Colin Herd & Patrick Coyle; James Davies & Stephen Emmerson; Todd Swift & Matthew Gregory; Carrie Etter & Tim Atkins; Nathan Jones & Richard Barrett; Sam Riviere & Sophie Collins; Katerina Kashchavtseva & Lucy Harvest Clarke; Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Marcus Slease & Peter Jaeger

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)

Becky Cremin & Alan Halsey

OPEN Poetry: SJ Fowler, Christodoulos Makris, Marcus Slease and Cherry Smyth, plus OPEN-mic session

Tim Allen & a.n. other

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)

Sucking on Words: A feast of sonic poetry celebrating 10 years of writers' collective information as material: Rob Lavers and Simon Morris, Nick Thurston and Jaap Blonk

Bridget Penney and Ulli Freer

Austerities: Sam Riviere presents 81 Austerities in conjunction with readings from other poets, and discussion on poetry's relationship to money, politics and advertising

Launch of John Rety's Collected Notebook in Hand + music from City Ramblers Revival

Helen Moore & Sandeep Parmar

Fire Farewell: sean burn, Graham Hartill, Rachel Lehrman, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Suzanne Muir Scott, Catherine Simmonds, Michael Wyndham Thomas and others

New European Poetry: Nikola Madrizov and Daniele Pantano + tbc

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Ken Edwards, John Gibbens and Ken White/David Miller

Tess Gallagher, John Kinsella, Jean Sprackland and Douglas Dunn

Alan Bernheimer + tba

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Eléna Rivera and Scott Thurston

POLYply 18

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Marcus Slease, Lesley McKenna and Fran Lock

Queer, The Space: The Event

Poetry and Revolution Conference: Guest Speakers: Mark Nowak + Joan Retallack
Readings and performances by Joan Retallack, Mark Nowak, Harry Gilonis, Sean Bonney, Andrea Brady, Ulli Freer, Keston Sutherland, Maggie O'Sullivan, Marianne Morris and others

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 has always had a vital relationship with revolution, notably in the 17th and 18th century bourgeois revolutions (Milton, Blake, Shelley, Victor Hugo are some of the obvious names, as well as popular radicals of the 17c and later) and in revolutionary movements of the 19th and 20th century (Rimbaud, Khlebnikov, Maiakovski, Brecht, Tzara, Vallejo, Suzanne Césaire, Diane di Prima, Baraka, Anna Mendelssohn, Ziba Karbassi, to name just a few). In fact, the names indicate that revolutionary movements have shaped the mainstream of poetry. Conversely poets have articulated the truth enunciated by revolution with a force not to be found anywhere else. It is also true that revolutionary thought, such as Marx's, cannot be properly understood without giving attention to its poetics

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.

POLYply 201

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