Crossing the Line

Wednesday 3rd March, 7.30pm

• Anthony Mellors
• Robert Sheppard

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN

Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)

An Evening With Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair

Monday 1st March, 6.30 - 9pm

• Brian Catling
• Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair will give a reading with poet, sculptor and performance artist Brian Catling, as part of Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, our bicentenary exhibition. The evening will be a chance to view the show, and in particular items of interest from the Society's archives, specifically selected by Iain Sinclair.

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Advance booking is highly recommended. Contact nora@swedenborg.org.uk or call 0207 405 7986.

The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Writers Forum

Saturday 20th February, 3.30pm

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London EC1

University of Greenwich: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Work Festival

Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th July

image by Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley:

There will be a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work, organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) & myself, taking place this summer at the University of Greenwich (London). The dates are July 14th-16th.

Confirmed writers and speakers so far:

• Alev Adil
• Caroline Bergvall
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• David Buuck
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Mairead Byrne
• Jennifer Cooke
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Jean Day
• Jacob Edmund
• Carrie Etter
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Susana Gardner
• Lisa Jarnot
• Daniel Kane
• Christine Kennedy
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Marianne Morris
• Redell Olsen
• Holly Pester
• Vanessa Place
• Frances Presley
• Luke Roberts
• Lisa Robertson
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• Lisa Samuels
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Juliana Spahr
• Zoë Skoulding
• Cathy Wagner
• Samantha Walton
• Carol Watts
• Sara Wintz

Room 315, King William Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

Admission is free (donations requested).

For anyone unable to make the festival in person, Steve Willey and Alex Davies will be filming proceedings. These will be made available online.

Update on Thursday 11 March, 2010 by Openned

Updated list of readers.

Update on Saturday 22 May, 2010 by Openned

Further updates to list of readers and location of readings.

Update on Monday 5 July, 2010 by Openned

Updates to reader list and room location.

What is Bathos?

Wednesday 3rd February, 5 - 6.30pm

Keston Sutherland, 'What is Bathos?'

Main Building (RHB) 308, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW

Admission is free.

TALKSTALKSTALKS

Wednesday 10th February, 7.30pm

Amy Cutler will speak on 'Poetry and Cartography'.

Room 401, 30 Russell Square, (Dept. of English & Humanities building) Birkbeck College, London

Admission is free.

Crossing the Line

Thursday 4th February, 7.30pm

• Abi Oborne
• Holly Pester
• James Wilkes

The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, London SE1 3HN

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

TALKSTALKSTALKSTALKS

Late, late notice:

Wednesday 27th January, 7.30pm

Robert Hampson will talk on 'Frank O'Hara, Monuments and Memories'.

Birkbeck College, University of London, London (exact location TBC)

Admission is free, all welcome.

Christian Bök Reading

Late notice:

Wednesday 27th January, 6.30pm (workshop), 7.30pm (reading)

• Christian Bök
• Weyman Chan

Landon Branch Library, 167 Wortley Road, London

Admission is free.

Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Launch

Wednesday 17th February, 7.30pm

Launch of Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1968-1980), edited by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards. Featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by:

• Sean Bonney
• Ken Edwards
• Allen Fisher
• Alan Halsey
• Geraldine Monk
• Maggie O'Sullivan

Room 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London

Admission fee TBC.