Readings in London

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:

for Cambridge: cambridgepoetry.org, or Cambridge Poetry Page
for Brighton: Chlorine Readings
for Manchester: The Other Room
for Leicester: Poetry Leicester
for Leeds: Letterbomb
for Plymouth: The Language Club, at Plymouth Arts Centre, Looe St, The Barbican. Contact: Tim Allen

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.

July
Thursday 8th July 7pm	Michael McClure + screening of Colin Still's documentary Abstract Alchemist of Flesh & introduced by Iain Sinclair	London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place WC1A 2JL £6 (£ LRB subscribers)
Saturday July 10th 4 pm reading 6 pm (aprox) performances	Jennifer Pike Cobbing 90th Birthday Celebration: workshop + performances from Sean Bonney, Patricia Farrell, Ulli Freer, Frances Kruk, Robert Sheppard, Mike Weller and others	Writers Forum: The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell EC1R 3BL Free entry. All welcome. check website for information on workshop
24th June–25th July Thursday–Sunday 12–6	Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959–1969: featuring material from AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more: artworks, archive, movies and sound curated by David Toop and Tony Herrington	Flat Time House 210 Bellenden Road, Peckham SE15 4BW
Tuesday July 13 7.30 pm	Sina Queyras, Michael J Weller & Michael Zand	Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 or £3
Wednesday–Friday July 14th–16th 1st event 11.00 am, last event 8.00 pm each day	Conference: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival, organised by Emily Critchley & Carol Watts Poets and speakers so far confirmed include: Caroline Bergvall, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Andrea Brady, Lee Ann Brown, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Mairéad Byrne, Jennifer Cooke, Corina Copp, Emily Critchley, Jean Day, Carrie Etter, Steve Evans, Robert Hampson, Edmund Hardy, Susana Gardner, Lisa Jarnot, Daniel Kane, Christine Kennedy, Frances Kruk, Francesca Lisette, Marianne Morris, Jennifer Moxley, Redell Olsen, Holly Pester, Frances Presley, Luke Roberts, Lisa Robertson, Sophie Robinson, Rebecca Rosier, Lisa Samuels, Eleni Sikelianos, Juliana Spahr, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Fiona Templeton, Cathy Wagner, Samantha Walton, Carol Watts, Sara Wintz now slightly inaccurate schedule on page 9 of Openned Zine #2	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 Admission is free (donations requested). Contact E.J.E.Critchley@ greenwich.ac.uk or C.Watts@english.bbk.ac.uk for more information
Thursday July 15 event starts 7 pm show 9 pm	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 £8 online; £10 on door includes same day entry to exhibition + other related activities
Tuesday July 20 7.30 pm	Jeff Hilson and Carol Watts	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3
Tuesday July 20 7 pm	Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde: A performance collaboration to launch: CUTTING MOVEMENT and Y CHROMOSOMES (Knives Forks and Spoons Press): We present the instance of the book in performance. We problematise how to read the book in performance. We probe the notion of materiality of the book in performance.	Curzon Soho Mezzanine Bar, 99 Shaftesbury Ave W1D 5DY
Wednesday 21 July 7.30 pm	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) Free Entry. All Welcome
Friday July 23 7.30 pm	Lisa Jarnot	The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1
Saturday 24 July 7.00 pm	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) Free Entry. All Welcome
Wednesday 28 July 6–9 pm	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 29 July 7 pm	Keston Sutherland	Parasol unit: 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW Free; booking for events is essential due to limited spaces To guarantee your place please book on 0207 490 7373 or email events@parasol-unit.org

August
Sundays August 1, 15, 29 + September 12, 26 7.30 pm event 6–11	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 £10; £10 concessions (whole event)
Saturday August 7 12–3pm	Openned Table @ Café 1001 Alongside the selling of books there will be short Openned readings tba	Café 1001: 1 Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL Attendance is free as long as you bring one book to donate to Café 1001's Book Orphanage (free library in cafe)
Tuesday 17th August 7.30 pm	Adrian Clarke, Wayne Clements and Michael Zand	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3
Wednesday 18th August 7.30 pm	Richard Parker + Tim Atkins + Michael Kindellan + Linus Slug + Rumour Cubes	Openned Book Launch: Carnivale, 2 White Church Lane E1 7QR free
Saturday August 28th 3.30 for 4–6ish	Writers Forum	The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell EC1R 3BL free check website for information on workshop

September
Wednesday–Friday 1–3rd September one day: academic sessions in day; readings in evening	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 September 15 7.30 pm	Ken Edwards and Harry Gilonis	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3

October
Tuesday 5 October 7.30 pm	Peter Riley and Damian tba	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee
Tuesday 12th October	Robert Sheppard and Hazel Smith	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3

November
Tuesday 2 November 7.30 pm	tba	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee
Tuesday 9th November	Christopher Gutkind and James Wilkes	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3
Friday 12th & Saturday 13th November 11am–7pm	readings (usually through Saturday) tba	Small Publishers Fair: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL admission free

December
Tuesday 7 December 7.30 pm	tba	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee

Readings etc in London