Greenwich University End of Term Reading

The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film

Steve Willey, Ulli Freer and Adrian Clarke will be giving short readings of their own work and work published by Writers Forum. Plus, a 36 min documentary made by Steve Willey, The Sound Of Writers Forum: A Film will be shown. The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers forum over a period of 50 years.

Details about the event can be found here.

Home'Baked at the bookartbookshop

Veer/CPRC Reading

Monday 29th March, 7.30pm

• Gilbert Adair
• Robert Hampson

This event will see the launch of Robert Hampson's new publication from Veer Books, 'an explanation of colours'. Gilbert Adair's Sable Smoke will be published by Veer Books later in 2010.

Room G01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1

Admission is free, all welcome.

OFF THE SHELF: PERFORMANCE, FILM, VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC

Monday 22nd March, 6 - 10.30pm

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.

Wilkins North and South Cloisters, and the Old Refectory, Gower Street Campus, University College London WC1E 6BT

Mehmet Yashing, Parasol Unit Reading

Thursday 18th March, 7pm 

• Mehmet Yashin

Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW

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.

London Word Festival 2010

Sunday 7th March - Thursday 1st April

A wide variety of literary events taking place throughout the capital. Openned has compiled an edited PDF of all the events courtesy of Tom Chivers. We have highlighted two in the PDF that might catch your interest.

Download PDF

Visit the London Word Festival website.

Raul Zurita - INRI Launch

Raul Zurita - INRI (trans. William Rowe)

$14.95 USD + shipping, Marick Press, 2009 (Paperback, 120 pages)

ISBN 10 1-934851-04-3
ISBN 13 978-1-934851-04-3

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 3rd March, 8pm

A reading by Raul Zurita, with translation by William Rowe.

The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX.

Admission is free, all welcome (refreshments provided).

Blue Bus

Tuesday 9th March, 7.30pm

• Tim Allen
• Philip Kuhn

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room)

Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)