La Langoustine Est Morte

Saturday 7th November, time TBC

• Caroline Bergvall
• Andreas Von Grant
• Tommy Peeps
• Gerard Rudolf

The Camden Eye, 2 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 9NX

TALKSTALKSTALKS

All talks take place on a Wednesday and begin at 7.30pm.

• 28th October: Jonathan Kauphmann
• 11th November: Alison Croggan
• 25th November: Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary
• 9th December: Rebecca Cremin & Ryan Ormonde

Room B29, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX

Admission is free.

Cantos Reading Group

All events begin at 6pm.

The London Cantos Reading Group continues this year; all are welcome, includes wine. Each meeting we will approach an individual canto introduced by a guest speaker:

• 16th October, Nick Selby (Canto 31)
• 13th November, Stephen Wilson (Canto 34)
• 11th December, Harry Gilonis (A chinese Canto)
• 15th January 2010, Richard Parker (Canto 120)
• 12th February, Alex Pestell (Canto 109)
• 12th March, David Barnes (Canto 3)
• 16th April, David Moody (Canto 41)
• 14th May, Stoddard Martin (Canto 84)
• 11th June, Eric White (Canto 32)

North Wing, Senate House, University of London

Admission is free.

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Launch Events

Thursday 8th October, 6.30pm

A joint celebration of the launch of the Journal and Edge Hill's decade of poetics by speaker/editor Scott Thurston.

Education Building E21, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

The other two launch events will be standalone, and incorporate speeches and discussion of the journal. As well as an opportunity for editorial board members to meet with readers and contributors to the journal.

Wednesday 21st October, 7.30pm

Main Building (Room B29) Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street WC1E 7HX

Wednesday 9th December, (time TBC)

• Ian Davidson
• Allen Fisher
• Christine Kennedy

University of Salford

Further details to be posted in due course.

Veer Books Launch

Thursday 1st October 7.30pm

• James Harvey
• Jow Lindsay
• Out to Lunch
• James Wilkes

More TBC.

Six new Burner Veer books:

• Burner 001 Francis Crot – ‘OCTAVE PUKE: 3 CHAPTERS FROM THE TRAGEDY OF BEYONCE KNOWLES’
• Burner 002 Tom White – ‘Old Sense’
• Burner 003 Out To Lunch – ‘Swift Blab Residue’
• Burner 004 Jon Clay – ‘Here 1-24’
• Burner 005 James Harvey – ‘Temporary Structures’
• Burner 006 James Wilkes – ‘Reviews’

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

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

via Readings in London

Writers Forum

Saturday 26th September, 3.30 for 4pm start Writers Forum workshop Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, EC1

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WET INK at BAC

Friday 25th September, 7.30pm We will explore Democracy. To explore the democracy of practise and space. WET INK pitch our practice against the competitive capitalists and their survival-of-the-fittest economic structures; we suggest a new poetic survival. Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill SW11 5TN Admission £5 - Tickets Website

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Susan Howe and David Grubbs at Birkbeck

Wednesday 7th October, 3 - 5pm

Susan Howe and David Grubbs will speak about the ideas that have nourished their collaboration as poet and musician. Howe and Grubbs have released two CDs, Thiefth (2005) and Souls of the Labadie Tract (2006), works which take the encounter between poetry and music into new territory. Each will speak for around 30 minutes and the second hour will be devoted to questions and discussion.

Presented jointly by the Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre. Supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, the Faculty of Arts and the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Howe and Grubbs will also perform at the South Bank Centre on Thursday 8th October, 7.45pm in the Purcell Room. Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX . Room TBC. via Will Montgomery

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Palestine

The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:

• Sean Bonney
• Sophie Robinson
• Harry Gilonis
• Josh Stanley
• Tim Atkins
• Nat Raha
• Posie Rider
• Peter Philpott
• Alan Hay
• Michael Zand
• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Frances Kruk
• Raz
• Andrea Brady
• Justin Katko

More TBA. Publishers donating to the book table include:

• Barque Press
• Reality Street
• Bad Press
• West End Lane Books
• Critical Documents
• Grasp Press
• Hot Gun!
• Veer

More TBA. If there are any other small presses, publishers, who would like to donate books to the book table (all profits going to the Lajee Center) please contact us on our Openned G-mail account.   Also if there are any individuals that would like to donate books to the night that would be much appreciated both by myself and the people at Lajee.  Download the Openned October E-Flyer or for more information go to the Openned Poetry Facebook Event. Or download the Lajee Project Fact Sheet. Please do feel free to distribute these images. Also of note is that the Tuesday reading will be held inside a photography exhibition entitled  Jerusalem Dispossessed.   JERUSALEM DISPOSED is an exhibition from the photographic collective ActiveStills. It documents different aspects of the on-going expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their native Jerusalem.  A powerful and eerie series of 42 photographs moves between images of Israeli settlements, armed settler youths, uprooted Palestinian olive trees, and the Separation Wall. On a related but different topic, recently the poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.

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Blue Bus

Tuesday 15th September, 7.30pm

• Vahni Capildeo
• Lesley McKenna
• David Miller

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room) Admissions £5 / £3 (conc.)

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