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All Klatches are now gone, thanks for all your interest. To anyone who has requested Klatch expect to see it arrive in the post soon.

Night

Openned is taking a break from staging events.

TV

Next showtime: TBC

Openned periodically broadcasts short shows featuring the most exciting new and established poets.

Tuesday
09Mar2010

Knives, Forks and Spoons Launch

Tuesday 16th March, 7pm

Featuring:

  • Neil Campbell
  • Alex Davies (via recording)
  • Dermot Glennon
  • John Hall
  • Steven Waling
You are invited to the first Knives Forks and Spoons launch night. There will be a fully laden bookstall and plenty of real-ales, European lagers and real-cider.

The Crescent, 20 The Crescent, Salford, Manchester M5 4PF

Admission is free.

Monday
08Mar2010

Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

£12.95 / $20, ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010 (Paperback, 211 pages)

ISBN 9781848610996

Available via the Bookshelf.

 

Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm

The launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

  • Sascha Akhtar
  • Isobel Armstrong
  • Caroline Bergvall
  • Andrea Brady
  • Emily Critchley
  • Claire Crowther
  • Catherine Hales
  • Frances Kruk
  • Rachel Lehrman
  • Wendy Mulford
  • Redell Olsen
  • Frances Presley
  • Sophie Robinson
  • Zoë Skoulding
  • Harriet Tarlo

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

Monday
08Mar2010

Runnymede International Literary Festival

Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th March

Events of interest on Saturday 20th:

  • 10.30am - 12pm Poetic Practice Workshop: Kristen Kreider (International Building In243) - 20 places
  • 12.30 - 1.30pm Students from the MA in Poetic Practice (International Building In243)
  • 2 - 3pm Caroline Bergvall and John Hall (Management Auditorium)
  • 3.15 - 4.15pm Emily Critchely and Francis Presley (Management Auditorium)
  • 4.30 - 5.30pm Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk (Management Auditorium)

Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

Admission to events is free.

Download full programme.

Sunday
07Mar2010

SPINE Vol. 2

SPINE Vol. 2: Issue 2 is now online, featuring:

  • Susan Banks
  • Simon Charlton
  • Harry Godwin
  • Charlotte Gringras
  • Jim Heavily
  • Derek Henderson
  • Simon Howard
  • Robert Leitz
  • Chris McCabe
  • John Muckle
  • Jack Seward
  • David Simms
  • Robert Smith
Saturday
06Mar2010

CLR Online

Extracts from the first two Cambridge Literary Reviews are available to view and listen to online. via Timothy Thornton

Friday
05Mar2010

Geof Huth - ntst

ntst collects 750 of Geof Huth’s pwoemrds; one word poems, visual plays, portmanteaus, abbreviations and cuts of regular words. In the lineage of Aram Saroyan’s classic 60s minimalist works these poems show the great maximalism of minimalism and are always both inside and outside.

£8, if p then q, 2010 (120 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9558641-5-5

You can view a sample of Geof Huth's forthcoming publication from if p then q, ntst, by clicking here.

via The Other Room

Thursday
04Mar2010

Cambridge Residency

Saturday 6th March, 8 - 10pm

  • 'Death of Pringle' by Justin Katko
  • 'Stomunculus the Homunculus' by Dummy Company

More TBC.

Judith E. Studio Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge

Thursday
04Mar2010

Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry Launch

Tuesday 16th March, 6 - 7pm

Featuring papers by:

  • Alex Davis
  • Sam Ladkin
  • Robert Sheppard
  • Scott Thurston

O'Rahilly Building Room 1.23, University College, Cork, Eire

Admission is free.

Wednesday
03Mar2010

Robert Sheppard & Scott Thurston Reading

Monday 15th March, 7pm

  • Robert Sheppard
  • Scott Thurston

West Wing 7 (part of the quadrangle) University College, Cork, Eire

Admission is free.

Tuesday
02Mar2010

Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 5th March, 7.30pm

  • Peter Manson
  • Jefferson Toal

Judith E. Studio Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge

Admission is free, wine served.

via Justin Katko