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Websites Useful for Understanding Avant-Garde British Poetry
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Readings etc in LondonYes, this is geographically limited! I can only personally get a sense of what's taking place in London (which I live just outside of). But here are good contacts for what I believe are the other English poetry scenes at present that may interest Great Works 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. It's also limited largely to those events including poets whose work I value.
Email me to give me details of any readings or other events to put on this page.
Tuesday |
Sarah Law & Steve Spence |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH | |
Wednesday |
Keston Sutherland, What is Bathos?, a talk on Marx and poetry |
Main Building (RHB) 308, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW | |
Thursday |
I Am the Last Man Alive: a poetry reading by Abi Oborne, Holly Pester and James Wilkes |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN | |
Thursday |
Peter Riley |
Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW | |
Monday |
Carrie Etter |
The Troubadour, 263–7 Old Brompton Road SW5 9JA | |
Monday |
Harriet Tarlo, James Harvey and Ken White / David Miller |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 | |
Wednesday |
Amy Cutler on contemporary English poetry and cartography |
TALKSTALKSTALKS, curated by Professor Robert Hampson, in room 401, 30 Russell Sq (Department of English and Humanities), Birkbeck College, University of London | |
Tuesday |
Paula Claire and Antony John |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 | |
Wednesday |
Launch of Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1968-1980), edited by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards, co-published by Reality Street & West House: |
Room 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square | |
Wednesday |
Simon Smith on 'The Fragment' |
TALKSTALKSTALKS, curated by Professor Robert Hampson, in room 401, 30 Russell Sq (Department of English and Humanities), Birkbeck College, University of London |
Tuesday |
Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read from her recent Shearsman Selected Poems with at least two of her translators |
Shearsman Reading Series at Westminster Kingsway College, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday |
tbc |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wednesday |
Launch of the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries from UK Women Poets, edited by Carrie Etter, with readings from fifteen of the poets featured in the book, hosted by the editor |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday |
Carrie Etter |
International Women's Poetry, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park N6 5HG
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Tuesday |
Philip Kuhn and Tim Allen |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Thursday |
tbc |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN | |
Tuesday |
Jaime Robles and Lars Amund Vaage |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH | |
Tuesday |
Anthony Rudolf, Martin Anderson and Tom Lowenstein |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Thursday |
tbc |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN | |
Tuesday |
Camille Martin + Alasdair Paterson |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH | |
Tuesday |
Nat Raha, Lucy Harvest Clarke and Anna Ticehurst |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Tuesday |
readers tbc |
Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH | |
Thursday |
tbc |
Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN | |
Thursday |
Alfred Celestine Memorial Reading: participants are expected to include Christopher Gutkind, John Welch, Jeremy Hilton, Richard Leigh, Jennifer Johnson, David Miller, Jeff Hilson and Keith Jebb, amongst others |
presented by The Blue Bus at at The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 | |
Tuesday |
Fanny Howe and Tom Raworth |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
Tuesday |
Michael Zand and tba |
The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 |
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 |