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). But here are good contacts for what I believe are the other English poetry scenes at present that may interest Great Works 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. 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.

March

Monday March 1 6.30 pm	Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling	part of Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions bicentenary exhibition. The evening will be a chance to view the show, and in particular items of interest from the Society's archives. The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way WC1A 2TH Admission: £5 (£3 concession) Advance booking is highly recommended. Contact: nora@swedenborg.org.uk or call 0207 405 7986
Tuesday March 2 7.30 pm	Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read from her recent Shearsman Selected Poems with some of her translators, including Ruth Fainlight	Shearsman Reading Series at Westminster Kingsway College, Room V109, 1st Floor, St Vincent Square SW1P 2PD Access to the reading via the main college entrance no admission fee
Wednesday March 3 8 pm	reading by Raul Zurita, with translation by William Rowe	Booklaunch of Raul Zurita's book INRI: The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Malet Street WC1E 7HX All Welcome
Wednesday March 3 7.30 pm	Robert Sheppard + Anthony Mellors	Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 or £3
Tuesday March 9	Philip Kuhn and Tim Allen	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3
Wednesday March 10 7.30 pm	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 no admission fee
Thursday March 11	Carrie Etter	International Women's Poetry, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park N6 5HG Tel: 020 8348 8716 no admission fee
Thursday March 18 8 pm	SHAD THAMES, BROKEN WHARF by Chris McCabe (performed by Tracey Wilkinson, Luke McEwen, Chris McCabe and Paul Henderson) with Bleeding Heart Narrative and Jack Wake-Walker, introduced by Iain Sinclair	London Word Festival Commission, at Jamboree, Cable Street Studios, 566 Cable Street, Limehouse E1W 3HB £8 adv / £10 door
Thursday March 18 7 pm	Mehmet Yashin	Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW 0207 490 7373 F + 44 (0) 207 490 7775info@parasol-unit.org Free
Monday March 22 6.00–10.30pm	OFF THE SHELF: PERFORMANCE, FILM, VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC "Taking as its theme a re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL, this event will give you the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry — including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing. These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation of the period. The evening will also stage new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, exploring the interaction between words and images and a 'speaker's corner' with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum."	staged by the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, to take place in the Wilkins North and South Cloisters plus the Old Refectory, at UCL's Gower Street Campus WC1E 6BT
Sunday March 28 7 pm	LEAFCUTTER JOHN: BRIGGFLATTS REWIRED + Peter Finch + MacGillivray + Hannah Silva "Briggflatts Rewired takes Basil Bunting’s extraordinary and intensely musical poem as the starting point for a new, electronically-enhanced composition."	London Word Festival, at Stoke Newington International Airport, Unit F, 1-15 Leswin Place, Stoke Newington N16 7NJ £6.50 adv / £8.50 door

April

Wednesday April 7 7.30 pm	Amy De'Ath + Justin Katko (tbc)	Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 or £3
Tuesday April 13 7.30 pm	Anthony Rudolf, Martin Anderson and Tom Lowenstein	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3
Tuesday April 20 7.30 pm	Jaime Robles and Lars Amund Vaage	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee
Thursday 22 April 7 pm	Vahni Capildeo	Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW 0207 490 7373 F + 44 (0) 207 490 7775info@parasol-unit.org Free

May

Tuesday May 4 7.30 pm	Camille Martin + Alasdair Paterson	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee
Wednesday May 5 7.30 pm	Rob Holloway + Scott Thurston	Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 or £3
Tuesday May 18 7.30 pm	Nat Raha, Lucy Harvest Clarke and Anna Ticehurst	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3

June

Tuesday June 1 7.30 pm	readers tbc	Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH no admission fee
wednesday June 2 7.30 pm	Stephen Vincent + Mark Weiss	Crossing the Line: The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN £5 or £3
Thursday June 3 7.30 pm	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 free
Tuesday June 22 7.30 pm	Fanny Howe and Tom Raworth	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3

July

September

	Wednesday–Friday July 14th–16th 7.30 pm	Confirmed poets & speakers so far include: Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady, Elizabeth Jane Burnett, Mairead Byrne, Jennifer Cooke, Corina Copp, Emily Critchley, Carrie Etter, Robert Hampson, Edmund Hardy, Susana Gardner, Lisa Jarnot, Daniel Kane, 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, Zoe Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Cathy Wagner, Carol Watts & Sara Wintz	"a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work," organised by Carol Watts & Emily Critchley at the University of Greenwich
	Tuesday July 20 7.30 pm	Michael Zand and Carol Watts	The Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1 £5 or £3

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

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