Past Events
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Sat 4th February 2012
Arnolfini Gallery, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA (0117 9172300)
Michelene Wandor reads 'Ophelia' from Fluviatile, a collaboration with artist Lindsey Adams.
£3.50/£2.50
Mon 12th December 2011
Aerial. Poetry, film, and live music. The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. £5
Poets Jeremy Clarke, Stephen Watts, and Arc's own Astrid Alben will be reading from their work. This fascinating event also offers live music and short films, all for a fiver.
"The evening offers personal, passionate, lyrical and luminous responses to the ceaselessly rewarding questions of the air and its meanings, from breath to song, storm to space, surveillance to sea-bed reflections, and much much more." See the Horse Hospital website for more info.
Sun 11th December 2011
Echoes of Geoffrey Hill. Southbank Centre, London (The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall)
New poets from across the UK, including Arc's very own James Byrne, will be reading from their work and the poetry of Geoffrey Hill in celebration of the revered poet's influence. Admittance is free. More info on the Southbank website
Sat 10th December 2011
Camelford Poetry Stanza
Lorna Thorpe will be reading from her new book, Sweet Torture of Breathing. "Funny in that painful, truthful way." For more information, see the Poetry Society website.
Wed 7th December 2011
Crown Inn, Lanlivery (off the A390 between Lostwithiel and St Austell)
The Cornwall launch of Lorna Thorpe's new poetry collection,Sweet Torture of Breathing
Fri 25th November 2011
Red Roaster Cafe, St James Street, Brighton
The launch of Lorna Thorpe's new poetry collection,Sweet Torture of Breathing with Charlotte Gann and music from Simon Beavis and friends. Part of the Pigbaby Festival organised by Pighog Press.
Mon 21st November 2011
University of Basle, Switzerland.
Michael Hulse. Details of all events will be posted nearer to the time.
Sat 19th November 2011
19-20 November, Geneva Writers' Group, Switzerland.
Michael Hulse. Details of all events will be posted nearer to the time.
Tue 8th November 2011
Level 5 Function Room, Southbank Centre,Belvedere Road,London, SE1 8XX. Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7960 4200 Ticket Prices: £8 Booking Fee:£1.75 (Members £0.00) Concessions:50% off (limited availability)
A unique opportunity to hear three poets from Algeria, Albania and Jordan read from and discuss their poetry. Luljeta Lleshanaku is regarded as the leading lyric poet in Albania. Timothy Adès at Oxford.
'Rhyming Translator-Poet – Translating the Poetry of Desnos, Cassou and Hugo.'
Open Seminar
Thu 3rd November 2011
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7960 4200 Prices: £15 £12 Booking Fee: £1.75 (Members £0.00) Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)
Mourid Barghouti reads and reflects upon life in Palestine to mark the publication of his second volume of memoirs, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, in which he introduces his son Tamim Barghouti to their homeland.
The event is chaired by Maya Jaggi, an award-winning cultural journalist and critic who writes publications including the Guardian Review, the Economist and Newsweek, and contributes to BBC radio. She has been a judge of many literary awards.
Wed 19th October 2011
International Anthony Burgess Foundation in co-operation with the Manchester Literature Festival.
Arc poets read from Six Macedonian Poets and Six Latvian Poets.
Mon 17th October 2011
Blue Sky Café, Bangor
In co-operation with Poetry Wales poets from Six Macedonian Poets and Six Latvian Poets in co-operation with Poetry Wales
Sun 16th October 2011
B@r Place, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge
An evening with poets from Six Macedonian Poets and Six Latvian Poets.
Sat 15th October 2011
Richmix, Bethnal Green Road, London.
Featuring poets from Six Macedonian Poets and Six Latvian Poets.This reading will be held alongside of Maintenant's Camaraderie project featuring original collaborations between 9 pairs of the UK's most vital poets.
Thu 13th October 2011
Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6 5HG Ph: 020 8348 8716 Tickets: £5.00 (Concessions £3.00)
Poetry at Lauderdale House: Programme; Shanta Acharya, Todd Swift, Mario Petrucci, Susan Wicks
Fri 23rd September 2011
23-25 September, King's Lynn Poetry Festival.
Michael Hulse. See festival website for details.
Tue 20th September 2011
Auditorium (on the ground floor). Amnesty International UK, The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA Phone +44 (0) 20 7033 1500
'Poetry and the State' reading in parnership with Poet in the City. Readers will have 15 minutes each.
The readers will be:
Jennie Feldman
Tim Allen
Amarjit Chandan
Zuzanna Olszewska
Carlos Reyez Manzo, The Amnesty Poet in Residence
David Constantine
Fri 16th September 2011
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London. WC2.Info: 020 8881 1418
Poetry Reading: Connections,
June English, Katherine Gallagher, Kaye Lee.
Thu 15th September 2011
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa.
Philip Mosley, translator of Griffin Poetry Prize nominated The Book of the Snow (Le livre de la neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads from his new translation.
Sat 10th September 2011
Venue: HAVERHILL ARTS CENTRE, HIGH STREET in HAVERHILL. Web Site: www.haverhillarts Contact: boxoffice@haverhillartscentre.co.uk on 01440 714140
POETRY LIVE!
A night of poetry (plus music and fine art) with National Poetry Competition winner, Christopher James. The local poet launches his new collection, Farewell to the Earth with verse about Seamus Heaney breaking down in a lane to John Lennon on the Great Wall of China; an unpredictable world tour that reaches from Cromer to Kathmandu. With an open mic from 10.00pm. Free poetry workshop at 4.00pm. 15 spaces available. Please book in advance. 'The UK's brightest newcomer' The Poetry Society £2.00
Sat 10th September 2011
Children's Room at the Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York. (212)-431-7920
Poetry reading with Chrissie Gittins
Fri 9th September 2011
Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, New York.
Poetry reading with Chrissie Gittins
Thu 21st July 2011
The Poetry Café,22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, WC2.
Poetically Speaking,
with Katherine Gallagher, Jeremy Page, Anne Stewart and Merryn Williams.
Tickets £5 / £3
For information call 01689 811 394
Sat 9th July 2011
Southwell Poetry Festival, Southwell Library. 01636-812148
Chrissie Gittins will be reading at Southwell Poetry Festival with Sarah Jackson.
Mon 4th July 2011
B@r Place, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge
An evening of Hungarian poetry with Andras Gerevich and Anna Szabo, introduced by George Szirtes.
Suggested entrance donation £3.50 (conc. £2.50)
Mon 4th July 2011
City Library, Becker Room, first floor, Elliot House, 151 Deansgate, Manchester
Poetry@city library presents readings from Hungarian poets Anna Szabó and András Gerevich.
Free event.
Sat 2nd July 2011
Ledbury Poetry Festival. 20 minutes with... Common Room. Free
20 mins with ... Joel Lane
Arc Publications present a short reading by Joel Lane from his latest book The Autumn Myth Joel Lane's two previous collections of poems are The Edge of the Screen and Trouble in the Heartland, His other work includes two novels, From Blue to Black and The Blue Mas, and three collections of short stories, The Earth Wire, The Lost District and The Terrible Changes. Come and hear him read!
Sat 2nd July 2011
Burgage Hall, Ledbury
Ledbury Poetry Festival live reading
New Order: Hungarian Poets with George Szirtes, Anna T Szabó and András Gerevich
Anna Szabó was born in Transylvania and is a prize winning poet and translator. András Gerevich is a poet, translator and screenplay writer. With George Szirtes, the editor of Arc Publications Hungarian anthology 'New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation', they will share the poetry of the new, post- 1989 Hungary.
Tickets £8.00
Sun 26th June 2011
Manor House Library, 34 Old Road, Lee, London SE13 5SY. Hither Green overland British Rail.
Celebration of National Reading Group Day. Reading and panel discussion with Chrissie Gittins and novelist Claire Seeber
10.30 – 1.30 Free and open to all. Tel: 0208-852-0357.
Tue 21st June 2011
Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London N6
7.45 for 8.15pm
Timothy Adès solo event:
'Rhyming Translator-Poet'.
Tue 21st June 2011
The Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere
Poetry readings by Tony Curtis and Bernard O'Donoghue. Tony Curtis will be reading from his seventh collection 'Folk'
Tickets £7.00/£8.00 (on the door)
For bookings please call 015394 35544
www.wordsworth.org.uk/events
Sun 12th June 2011
ALBION BEATNIK BOOKSTORE, 34 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AA
James Byrne will be reading with Ernest Hilbert, Katy Evans-Bush and Niall McDevitt
Wed 1st June 2011
Poetry Library, RFH London Southbank, SE1.
ARTEMIS poetry launch reading with Katherine Gallagher Meg Peacocke and Kay Syrad
Tue 31st May 2011
Griffin Poetry Prize Reading, Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory,TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning Toronto, Ontario SOLD OUT! (1000-seat capacity)
Philip Mosley, translator of Griffin Poetry Prize nominated The Book of the Snow (Le Livre de la neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads with Seamus Heaney, Adonis, Dionne Brand, Suzanne Buffam, and others...
Wed 25th May 2011
Miall Lecture Theatre, Baines Wing 2.34, University of Leeds
The Literary Studies Research Group in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures presents a recital of poetry and prose by the acclaimed poet, translator and editor, Michael Hulse.
Fri 20th May 2011
Arts SEEN Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Philip Mosley reads from The Book of the Snow (Le Livre de la neige) by François Jacqmin, nominated for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Wed 11th May 2011
'eg poetry' . . .at the Red Roaster Coffee House, St. James St., Brighton.
Sat 7th May 2011
Salisbury House, Bury Street West, Edmonton. N9. Info: 8881 1418
Australian Poetry evening for SH Poets with Ross Donlon, Katherine Gallagher and Kaye Lee
Thu 7th April 2011
Word Thursdays at Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell, New York (Catskill Mountains).
Philip Mosley, translator of Griffin Poetry Prize nominated The Book of the Snow (Le Livre de la neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads from his new translation.
Sat 2nd April 2011
SIA Gallery, Furnival Building, Sheffield Hallam University - £8 / £5 (conc) Book tickets at The Showroom Box Office, or on the door
Water, Earth and Sky: Three Poets
Elizabeth Barrett will launch her fourth collection A Dart of
Green and Blue (Arc) as part of Sheffield Poetry Festival.
It's a book bound by feeling: the central, spellbinding
sequence is entitled 'Kingfisher', where the poet charts
the final few months of her mother's life, and explores the
instances of grieving that haunt her over the following year.
Also Matthew Hollis and Maurice Riordan
Thu 24th March 2011
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA Tickets for this event are £5 for English PEN members and £8 for non-members. To book, please call the Free Word Centre on 020 7324 2570. The ticket price includes a glass of wine. www.englishpen.org
Big Writing for a Small World
A nourishing night of poems and stories from Amarjit Chandan, Pascale Petite, Nii Parkes and Shazea Quraishi alongside newly published writers from English PEN's Readers & Writers programme who will be launching their latest book. Readers & Writers works with refugees and asylum seekers across London, encouraging creative expression through the written word.
Sat 19th March 2011
Phipps Concert Hall, Huddersfield. (tickets £8/£6)
Chrissie Gittins will be reading with Simon Armitage at the Huddersfield Literature Festival.
Thu 17th March 2011
Foster Auditorium, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Translam! Performances of World Poetry in English Translation
Philip Mosley will be reading from The Book of the Snow.
Mon 14th March 2011
Troubadour details: 263-267 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5 (no mail to this address, see correspondence address below) nr. junct. Earls Court Rd & Old Brompton Rd nearest Tube station: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly Lines) for info, booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries, e:coffpoetry@aol.com w:www.coffeehousepoetry.org or write to Anne-Marie Fyfe, Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON, W4 1ZP
'magma 49' launch with guests w.n. herbert & jackie wills
Unmissable as ever, magma launches remain the hottest ticket in town, bringing together for predictably packed poetry audiences the widest imaginable selection of poets and poetries – under the eclectic editorial eye of, this time, Clare Pollard ('Voice Recognition', 2010, co-ed.) – with readings from contributors, showcase poet, and special guests,
- Jackie Wills – fourth collection, 'Commandments' (Arc, 2007) – one of Mslexia's top 10 new poets of the past decade; and
- W.N. Herbert ('Bad Shaman Blues', 2006) who teaches creative writing at Newcastle Univ. & lives in a North Shields lighthouse.
Always a magnificent poetry night!
Sat 12th March 2011
Friends' House, Leicester Road, East Barnet, London. EN5.
Katherine Gallagher reads from Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems, and talks about her writing.
Fri 11th March 2011
March 11th Colpitts, Durham Alington House
Reading with Linda France (with Lucy English)
Thu 10th March 2011
Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6 5HG Ph: 020 8348 8716 Tickets: £5.00 (Concessions £3.00)
Poetry at Lauderdale House: Programme for 10 March 2011. International Women's Poetry Reading with Fleur Adcock, Shanta Acharya, Katherine Gallagher, Ruth Fainlight, Penelope Shuttle, Jane Yeh
Mon 7th March 2011
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Philip Mosley, translator of The Book of the Snow (Le Livre de la Neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads from his new translation.
Fri 4th March 2011
Hexham Library
Reading with Linda France
Thu 3rd March 2011
Southgate Circus Library, High Street, Southgate, N14 6BP. Info: 020 8350 1124
World Book Day reading with Maggie Butt, Martyn Crucefix, Katherine Gallagher and Myra Schneider
Fri 18th February 2011
The Munster Literature Centre, Cork, Ireland www.munsterlit.ie
Cork Spring Literary Festival:
Valerie Rouzeau
Thu 17th February 2011
The Munster Literature Centre, Cork, Ireland www.munsterlit.ie
Cork Spring Literary Festival:
Kristiina Ehin
Thu 17th February 2011
The Music Studio, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
Philip Mosley, translator of The Book of the Snow (Le livre du neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads from his new translation. With classical guitar punctuations by Jason Smeltzer.
Thu 10th February 2011
Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Organized by the Schemel Forum cultural series and the Friends of the Weinberg Library. Philip Mosley, translator of The Book of the Snow (Le livre du neige) by François Jacqmin, one of Belgium's leading poets of the late twentieth century, reads from his new translation. With classical guitar punctuations by Jason Smeltzer.
Wed 9th February 2011
Benjamin Meaker Theatre, Jersey Arts Centre, Phillips Street, St. Helier, Jersey, JE2 4SW.
Katherine Gallagher reads from Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems, and talks about her writing.
There will also be a workshop for adults and one for children, more details to follow.
Mon 24th January 2011
Barbican Library, London.
Timothy Adès at launch of Long Poem Magazine, issue 5,
reads his translation of Robert Desnos 'The Ode to Coco'.
Mon 3rd January 2011
Shakespeare & Co., (opposite Notre Dame), 75005, Paris.
Katherine Gallagher reads her translations from French at the launch of Anglo-French literary magazine, Chimera (ed. Robert Cole)
Sun 12th December 2010
Torriano, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, NW5.
Katherine Gallagher reads with Linda Rose Parkes.
Fri 10th December 2010
Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hotel Green Park, Greenlands, Hyderabad. 12.30 - 13.30pm. www.hyderabadliteraryfestival.com
Reading: K Satchidanandan, Mamang Dai, Shanta Acharya. Keki Daruwalla will be delivering the keynote address at the Hyderabad Literary Festival.
Thu 9th December 2010
The BlueGate Poets of Swindon www.bluegatepoets.com Swindon Arts Centre
'Open Mic' night.
Amarjit Chandan reading.
Fri 3rd December 2010
The Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, 35 Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi 110 001, India
Reading: Shanta Acharya, Keki Daruwalla, Kunwar Narain
Wed 1st December 2010
City Library, Becker Room, First Floor, Elliot House, 151 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3WD. Contact Libby Tempest 0161 234 1981 email l.tempest@manchester.gov.uk Get involved at http://manchesterlitlist.blogspot.com
poetry@city library.
Larissa Miller reads new work and poems from her 'Arc' collection 'Guests of Eternity'.
Sun 28th November 2010
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY. 10am - 4pm
Discovered in Translation workshop with Susan Wicks, hosted by Poets and Players. Workshop description on www.poetsandplayers.co.uk , £25 (£20 concessions or 15-18 year olds). Tea/coffee/lunch available in the IABF's new cafe. To book, send cheque (made out to Poets & Players) to Linda Chase, 163 Palatine Road, M20 2GH. For further information, email linda@lindachase.co.uk
Sun 28th November 2010
INTERNATIONAL POETRY DAY IN HEBDEN BRIDGE
Bar Place, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8AH
3.30pm Larissa Miller
One of Russia's most distinguished poets reads from her first English translation, Guests of Eternity, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Politcal and at the same time lyrical, her poetry is compelling and memorable.
5.30pm Valérie Rouzeau and Susan Wicks
Leading French poet Valerie Rouzeau reads with her British translator, the emininet poet and novelist Susan Wicks, from a powerful and moving collection — short-listed for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize (the world's biggest poetry prize) — about the death of the poet's father, a scrap dealer.
7.45pm Kristiina Ehin and friends
The day ends with an exuberant partnering of poetry and music from the young Estonian poet Kristiina Ehin — described as the 'Faerie Queene' of the recent Poetry International at London's South Bank Centre — and musicians, singers Ana and Mari and the renowned Estonian folk-musician, Silver Sepp.
Sat 27th November 2010
Culture Lab, University of Newcastle. More details/to book: 0191 2227619.
Linda France will be reading at 'Saying the World' Festival of Women's Poetry at NCLA with Jo Shapcott and Deryn Rees-Jones.
Sat 27th November 2010
Whitworth Art Gallery, the South Gallery, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL. For public transport and parking near the Gallery, see http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/
Poets and Players and Arc Publications present Valerie Rouzeau and Susan Wicks. Talented Lancaster musicians Jane Lawrence (violin) and Ben Farmer (accordion) will also perform. Admission Free. Come and wander the exhibitions beforehand or visit the cafe for lunch, served from 11.30am. Both the cafe and shop open until 4.00pm. Poets & Players, www.poetsandplayers.co.uk, is a popular poetry and music performance series in Manchester which brings together complementary arts. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Sat 27th November 2010
‘Saying the World’ Festival of Women’s Poetry at NCLA. At Culture Lab, University of Newcastle.
Linda France will be holding a workshop 11am to 12.30pm. More details/to book: 0191 2227619.
Wed 24th November 2010
THE POETRY CAFE – 22 BETTERTON STREET, LONDON WC2H 9BX. Tickets at door £5/£3 conc.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION
"The Trace They Wished to Leave"
A reading from Remco Campert with Donald Gardner, Jacques Prevert and Sarah Lawson. Poetry in Translation is a series organised by Sebastian Hayes, co-Director of Brimstone Press Ltd .www.poetryintranslation.org
Tue 23rd November 2010
The Pushkin Club, Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA. Nearest tube stations:Holborn / Tottenham Court Road. Admissions £7 / concessions £5 / Free for friends of Pushkin House. Further information on 020-7269-9770 or 020-7328-9657
Larissa Miller poetry will be read in Russian with English translation.
The Moscow based Russian poet returns to the Pushkin Club to read her new poems following on from Guests of Eternity (Bilingual, translated by Richard McKane, published by Arc 2008) with her translator, Maggie Robertson and Angela Jarman.
Larissa Miller is one of Russia's most highly regarded writers — novelist, essayist and poet. She is a consummate technician, combining simple words with complicated and intricate rhythms to produce apparently effortless poetry which succeeds in elevating the ordinary to a higher plane. Larissa Miller writes with an intensity and a lyricism that is compelling, mesmerising and unforgettable.
Tue 23rd November 2010
Poetry Bites, Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham.
Joel Lane will be reading from his new Arc collection The Autumn Myth. Poetry Bites is a bimonthly event, hosted and programmed by poet Jacqui Rowe, that combines a guest reading with floor spots from the audience. The event is always well-attended, so if you'd like a floor spot please let Jacqui know before 7.30! Food, coffee, soft drinks, wine etc are available.
Thu 11th November 2010
The Drum Arts Centre 144 Potters LaneBirmingham, West Midlands B6 4UU0121 333 2400
Amarjit Chandan reading and answering questions.
Sat 6th November 2010
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Level 5 Function Room. Prices: £7 Booking Fee: £1.45 (Members £0.00) Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)
Mourid and Tamim Barghouti with Ahdaf Soueif
Mourid Barghouti is one of the best-known and most celebrated figures in Palestinian literature.
Mon 1st November 2010
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room. Prices: £9 Booking Fee: £1.45 (Members £0.00) Concessions:50% off (limited availability)
Elaine Feinstein, Sylva Fischerová and Tomaž Šalamun and Kristiina Ehin.
A generation on from the fall of Communism, we present some of the finest poetry from – and about – the shifting boundaries of the New Europe.
Sun 31st October 2010
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre
NB PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT
Hebden Bridge Lit Fest. Poetry Reading: Michael Haslam & Elizabeth Barrett.
Sat 30th October 2010
Flux Gallery, 16a Midland Road, Headingly, Leeds LS6 1BQ
Ian Pople will be reading with Edmund Prestwich and Chris Woods
Sat 30th October 2010
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre
Hebden Bridge Lit Fest. Poetry Reading: Soleiman Adel Guemar & Linda France. Poetry Reading.
Fri 29th October 2010
10th Torbay Poetry Festival
Reading: Shanta Acharya, Martyn Crucefix, Philip Gross
Mon 25th October 2010
Upper room of the Christian Centre by St. Martin's Church, Dorking RH4 1DW
Katherine Gallagher reads for Mole Valley Poets.
Fri 22nd October 2010
The Nehru Centre 8 South Audley Street London W1K 1HF Tel 020 7493 2019
'Mushaira': Gathering of Poets: Amarjit Chandan reading with Satyendra Srivastava (Hindi), Niranjana Desai (Gujarati) and Hilal Fareed (Urdu) In association with the DSC South Asian Literature Festival. Free admission
Fri 22nd October 2010
The New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton BN1 2PT
Launch of Poetry South East 2010 from Frogmore Press with: Ros Barber, Brendan Cleary, Maria Jastrzebska, Lorna Thorpe
tickets £7
Thu 14th October 2010
Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6 5HG Tel: 020 8348 8716
Poetry at the House organised and hosted by Shanta Acharya: An evening of readings by poets and translators with Arc Publications –
Shanta Acharya, George Hyde, Lorna Thorpe, Jackie Wills
Tickets: £5.00 (Concessions £3.00)
Tue 12th October 2010
1- 2.30pm Royal Lit & Sci Institute, Bath
'The Excitement of Rhyme and Metre'. A reading by Timothy Adès, translator of Jean Cassou's 33 Sonnets of the Resistance.
www.timothyades.co.uk
Fri 8th October 2010
Hexham Library, time tbc
Thu 7th October 2010
Bellingham Heritage Centre
Linda France Poetry Workshop, 10am – 4pm
Thu 30th September 2010
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Michael Hulse Reading
Mon 27th September 2010
Shannon Centre, Whittier College, 13406 Philadelphia St. Whittier CA 90608, USA
Whittier Writers Festival: Michael Hulse. Reading of Poetry and German Fiction in Translation
Sun 26th September 2010
West Hollywood Book Fair http://www/westhollywoodbookfair.org/?page id=1825
CROSSTRANSLATIONS: POETRY & OTHER LANGUAGES. Featuring: William Archila, Tony Barnstone, Helene Cardona, Mariana Dietl,Michael Hulse and Mariano Zaro
Sun 26th September 2010
26th Poetry Festival King's Lynn, Thoresby College, South Quay,King's Lynn; http://www.lynnlitfests.com/
Dannie Abse and John Welch, and from France Valerie Rouzeau with her translator, Susan Wicks
Sat 25th September 2010
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291, USA http://www.beyondbaroque.org/events.html
Beyond Baroque Reading with Michael Hulse and Tony Barnstone
Sat 25th September 2010
26th Poetry Festival King's Lynn, Thoresby College, South Quay,King's Lynn; http://www.lynnlitfests.com/
Amarjit Chandan reading in Panjabi with his translator and poet John Welch. Other poets Agnes Meadows and John Lucas
Fri 24th September 2010
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St., Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX Tel: 020 7420 9887
Fourth Friday Reading: Shanta Acharya
Tue 21st September 2010
Pighog Press London Series at The Leather Exchange, 15 Leathermarket Street, London SE1 3HN
Reading:
Lorna Thorpe, John McCullough, Tim Beech
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm, entry free.
Mon 20th September 2010
Arvon Foundation, Lecture Theatre, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA £10/£5 Concessions www.freewordonline.com/flow
Flow the Freeword Festival: Voices from Panjab
This evening of poetry readings and storytelling will give a flavour of the rich and colourful Panjabi language — the second most spoken language in the UK. Major Panjabi writer Amarjit Chandan has published five collections of poetry. He will read in Panjabi, with English translations delivered by actress Manjinder Virk. Shazea Quraishi is a poet and translator whose work has been published in the UK and USA, while Shamhad Khan's poetry explores themes of power, loss, identity and love. They will be joined by Seema Anand, who weaves together many different storytelling traditions to create spellbinding tales.
Tue 14th September 2010
Nehru Centre, London
Punjabi Poetry : Satrangi
Amarjit Chandan and Parminder Chadha
Mon 26th July 2010
Newcastle City Library
Mon 19th July 2010
Middlesbrough Literature Festival
Linda France with Bob Beagrie, Cynthia Fuller, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Thu 15th July 2010
Oxfam Bloomsbury Bookshop, London
Amarjit Chandan (with Manjinder Virk) and other Panjabi poets.
Panjabi is the second most spoken language in the UK and this evening we bring together three poets who have kindly agreed to give us a flavour of this 'colourful' language. Chandan will recite his poems in Panjabi and the English translations will be delivered by Manjinder Virk. The session will be chaired by Rakesh Bhanot, the bookshop's Events Manager, who will provide a very short introduction to Panjab and Panjabi.
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hotmail.co.uk to reserve seats as we have a maximum capacity of 60 (35 seated). Whilst all events are free we suggest a donation of £5 to cover the cost of refreshments.
Mon 12th July 2010
Deptford Deli, 4 Tanners Hill, Deptford, London SE8 4PJ.
7.30 — 9.30 pm
Katherine Gallagher reads with Russell Thompson
Café open serving food and drink from 5.30 pm.
Entry: £3. Info: 020 8692 7399.
Sat 10th July 2010
128 Myddleton Road, Wood Green, London. N22 8LZ.
7pm for 7.30 pm
Launch reading by Katherine Gallagher of Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems. Wine and Nibbles.
Info: 020 8881 1418. Event: free.
Sat 10th July 2010
Ledbury Poetry Festival (July 2nd - 11th), Burgage Hall
Doris Kareva, from Estonia, reading at the launch of "Shape of Time" with her translator Tiina Aleman reading the English plus Mary O'Donnell reading from "The Ark Builders".
Sat 3rd July 2010
Ledbury Poetry Festival (July 2nd - 11th), Burgage Hall
Amarjit Chandan, from Punjab, reads from "Sonata for Four Hands" with Stephen Watts, the translator, reading the English.
Fri 2nd July 2010
Ledbury Poetry Festival (July 2nd - 11th), Burgage Hall
Kristiina Ehin, from Estonia, opens the festival reading from her new bilingual book of poems "The Scent of your Shadow" plus songs from her poems sung by Estonian folk singers.
Tue 22nd June 2010
The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF
Reading by Shanta Acharya
With George Szirtes chairing the event and Carole Satyamurti releasing the CD
Mon 14th June 2010
Jurnet's Bar, Wensum Lodge, King Street, Norwich. 49 Myddleton Road, Wood Green,
Katherine Gallagher reading with Richard Lambert for Cafe Writers.
See also www.katherine-gallagher.com
Sun 13th June 2010
Bridlington Poetry Festival (11th-13th June) at Sewerby Hall, East Yorkshire
James Byrne and Anne-Marie Fyfe reading from their poems.
Kicking off the festival's final afternoon of poetry readings are James Byrne and Anne-Marie Fyfe. Not only are James and Anne-Marie two of the UK's most energetic and passionate champions of poetry (as editor of poetry magazine The Wolf and founder of London's Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubador, respectively), they're terrific performers of their own work.
A sparky afternoon of dynamic poetry pairings begins here.
£5.00
Thu 10th June 2010
Needlewriters at the Needlemakers Cafe, West Street, Lewes
Poets Lorna Thorpe and Sonya Smith, and novelist Irving Weinman.
Doors 7pm, readings 7.45pm (get there early if you want to order delicious food and eat before the readings start)
Tickets £5/£3
Sun 6th June 2010
Waterstone's, Rose Lane, Canterbury.
Katherine Gallagher, Carnival Edge reading.
Thu 3rd June 2010
Toronto
Announcement of the prize winner of The Griffin Prize for Poetry.
Wed 2nd June 2010
Toronto
Valerie Rouzeau and her translator Susan Wicks read from Rouzeau's collection Cold Spring in Winter as part of the Griffin Prize celebrations.
See www.griffinpoetryprize.com for more information.
Thu 20th May 2010
Oxfam Bookshop, 12 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B 3QA
POETRY READING: Shanta Acharya, Michael Horovitz, Judy Gahagan
Entry: Free but suggested donation of £5.00 to Oxfam.
Thu 20th May 2010
The Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, N22 6BG
Katherine Gallagher, Carnival Edge reading.
Thu 20th May 2010
May 20th, 21st, 22nd The Skagit Poetry Festival
Sun 16th May 2010
The Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, London NW1 7NB
The Sodom and Gomorrah Golf Club, by MICHELENE WANDOR
Michelene Wandor's new play explores the overlapping fortunes of four people at the end of World War 1, as they are engulfed by the events leading to the British Mandate in Palestine.
This staged reading will be followed by a discussion with journalist, Jonathan Freedland.
With Jonathan Tafler, Steven Robertson, Steve Hodson
and Diana Quick.
Directed by Jane Morgan
Sat 15th May 2010
The Artworkers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, WC1
Katherine Gallagher launches Carnival Edge at the SLN Festival.
Fri 14th May 2010
Waltham Forest Literature Festival Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road, Walthamstow, E17 9NH
Katherine Gallagher reads with Mimi Khalvati, Anna Robinson, and Charles Bennet.
Info: 0208 496 4391
Wed 12th May 2010
British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Jacek Dehnel and Georgi Gospodinov at the European Literature Night.
£7.50 (£5 concessions)
For one night, capital cities across Europe are presenting simultaneous celebrations of writing and reading on European Literature Night, and the British Library will once again host an electrifying evening of readings and conversation from some superlative writers, both emerging and established.
Come and meet this year's authors:
Jacek Dehnel (Poland),
Otto de Kat (Netherlands),
Paolo Giordano (Italy),
Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria),
Julya Rabinowicz (Austria),
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (Lithuania),
and Miloš Urban (Czech
Tue 11th May 2010
The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, Church Street, London N16
Pistols & Pollinators — collaborative works by artists and poets.
Exhibition Finale — Readings by Katherine Gallagher, Valerie Josephs, Louisa Chambers and others.
Tue 20th April 2010
The Gallery at Foyles, Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB
Reading by Jill Bialosky and Fleur Adcock
A special event arranged by Inpress Books to coincide with the London Book Fair and to launch Jill Bialosky's first UK collection The Skiers which selects work from her three US collections, The End of Desire, Subterranean and Intruder, all originally published to great acclaim by Knopf.
Jill is reading with the distinguished New Zealand-born poet, Fleur Adcock, whose first collection for 10 years, Dragon Talk, will be published in May by Bloodaxe Books.
Tickets: Free, email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.
Wed 24th March 2010
THE POETRY CAFE – BETTERTON STREET, LONDON WC2 Tickets at door £5/£3 conc.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION
"The Trace they Wished to Leave"
Timothy Adès will present
Jean Cassou — Robert Desnos — Bertolt Brecht — Victor Hugo
Timothy Adès is a translator-poet who tends to work with rhyme and metre, translating mostly from French, German and Spanish. He has won awards for his versions of Cassou, Desnos, Hugo and the Mexican, Alfonso Reyes. His books to date are two volumes of Cassou's poetry, and a short version of Victor Hugo's last book of poetry, How to be a Grandfather.
Jean Cassou 1897-1986 was a major cultural figure, the creator of France's Museum of Modern Art. Imprisoned as a suspected Resistant in 1941, he composed in his head his 33 Sonnets. Serious injury and rejection led him to write The Madness of Amadis (1950); these poems, translated, are now the core of two volumes of his work. The strict form of the sonnet enabled him to memorise the poems composed in prison; Amadis, taking its name from a hero of old romance, looks deceptively like an antique ballad. The forms chosen are at odds with the modernist, often opaque yet beautiful imagery.
Thu 11th March 2010
Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG Tel. 020 8348 8716
Shanta Acharya, Carrie Etter and Annie Freud
Shanta Acharya was born in India, educated at Oxford and
Harvard, and has lived in London since 1985. An internationally
published poet, her five books of poetry are Dreams That Spell The Light (Arc Publications, UK, 2009), Shringara (Shoestring
Press, UK; 2006), Looking In, Looking Out (Headland Publications, UK; 2005), Numbering Our Days' Illusions
(Rockingham Press, UK; 1995) and Not This, Not That (Rupa &
Co, India; 1994). Her doctoral study, The Influence of Indian
Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published by
The Edwin Mellen Press, USA, in 2001.
www.shantaacharya.com
Carrie Etter was born in the USA, and has lived in England since 2001. She is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University, and her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren Books in June 2009. As Paul
Batchelor commented in The Times, "Carrie Etter is an American expatriate, and her poetry is rootless in the best sense: it moves over wideranging territory and seems able to make itself at home anywhere. Although The Tethers is her first collection, Etter fully possesses her material," evincing "intelligence and authority."
Her pamphlet, The Son, was published by Oystercatcher Press in September 2009, and is the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2009. Annie Freud was born in London in 1948.
She is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud, maternal granddaughter of sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and the great-grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud. She was educated at the Lycee Francais de Londres and then studied English and European
Literature at Warwick University. Since 1975, she has worked intermittently as a tapestry artist and embroiderer, exhibiting work and undertaking commissions. Her first full collection from
Picador, The Best Man Who Ever Was, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2007, and went on to receive the Glen Dimplex New Writers' Award in the same year.
Thu 11th March 2010
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Amarjit Chandan, author of Sonata for Four Hands, gives readings.
Whitechapel Gallery website
Thu 29th October 2009
Drama Studio, University of East Anglia
Arc Poetry in Translation. he readings include translations from the works of Jean Cassou, Rose Ausländer, Gabriel Ferrater, Kunwar Narain, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Georg Trakl. Readings by Timothy Adès, Jean Boase-Beier, Phil Terry (reading for the late Arthur Terry), Apurva Narain, George Hyde and Will Stone. Free of charge, everyone welcome. Incidental violin music played by Sue Heaser.
www.uea.ac.uk/lit/eventsnews/events/Arc+poetry
Sat 10th October 2009
CHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 2009: Bishop Lloyd's Palace, 51-53 Watergate Row South, Chester CH1 2LE
Katherine Gallagher will be reading at the Shell Chester Literature Festival. FREE. Further details, tel. 01244 405605.
www.chesterfestivals.co.uk
Thu 8th October 2009
Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6 5HG T 020-8348 8716 Tickets £5.00 (Concessions: £3.00)
A poetry reading by Shanta Acharya, Robert Vas Dias, Michael Henry and Todd Swift to celebrate Nataional Poetry Day.
Shanta Acharya gives a pre-publication reading from her fifth, and latest, collection 'Dreams That Spell The Light', to be published by Arc in February 2010.
Sat 3rd October 2009
Wigtown Book FestivalCounty Buildings, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland DG8 9JH
Poetry Double:
Brian McCabe & Brian Johnstone
Saturday 03 October 2009
18:00 pm
County Buildings
£6.00
A joint reading by two distinctive Scottish voices. Brian McCabe is editor of the Edinburgh Review. His new book, Zero, is devoted to the poetry of numbers. Brian Johnstone founded the StAnza poetry festival. In his collection, The Book of Belongings, he considers the "archaeology of loss".
This event is in memory of Ina Munro, bookseller of Wigtown.
Fri 25th September 2009
King's Lynn Poetry Festival Thoresby College (between the Saturday Market Place and the Quay), King's Lynn
Michael Hulse reads from his new collection The Secret History alongside Valérie Rouzeau, who reads from Cold Spring in Winter with her translator Susan Wicks. Also reading is Moniza Alvi.
Wed 5th August 2009
The Poetry Studio, The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
The Wolf Poetry Magazine, which features an interview with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, an introduction to poetry from Burmese poets in exile and in prison, plus much much more, launches Issue 21.
This is a FREE EVENT! Seating limited. Arrive early.
Poets reading on the night include David Morley, Paul Stubbs and Valeria Melchioretto.
Hosted by Editor James Byrne
Sat 1st August 2009
York University
Michael O'Neill is giving an academic paper at the Bronte Society Conference at York University on August 1st and is also reading his poetry from Wheel, published by Arc.
Wed 15th July 2009
St. Herbert's Social Centre, High Hill, Keswick.
The launch of Defying Fate by Maurice Carême, no.25 in the Arc Visible Poets series. Free admission. Books available to buy.
Sat 11th July 2009
LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL, 3rd-12th July
Festival Open Mic. Asko Kunnap, an author featured in Arc's A Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe, opens this open mic event.
9.30-11pm Burgage Hall £5
Thu 9th July 2009
LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL, 3rd-12th July
Cross Channel Currents. A celebration of the launch of French poet Valerie Rouzeau's book, A Cold Spring in Winter.
6-7pm Burgage Hall £8
Sun 5th July 2009
LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL, 3rd-12th July
Found in Translation.
Polish poets Dariusz Suska and Maciej Wozniak, featured in Arc's Six Polish Poets anthology, muse on memory, history, being a Polish writer in post Communist Poland and the future of Polish literature.
12.45-1.45pm Burgage Hall £8
Sat 4th July 2009
LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL, 3rd-12th July
Early Bird. Indonesian poet Dorothea Rose Herliany, author of Kill the Radio, reads from her work.
9.15-10.15 am, Burgage Hall £8
Tue 30th June 2009
KSU Common Room, Student's House, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, Msida, MALTA
Michael O'Neill reads from his latest collection, Wheel.
"Michael O'Neill's finely made poems in this, his overdue second collection, have long deserved the hearing they're now granted by fortune's wheel at last." – Andrew McNeillie
Free Entry
Refreshments will be served
Thu 11th June 2009
Lauderdale House, Highate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG
ARC Publications invites you to an evening of reading by TRANSLATOR-POETS. The evening is hosted by Shanta Acharya.
Readings by Jean Boase-Beier (translator of Between Nothing to Nothing by Ernst Meister), Francis Jones (translator of Camp Notebook by Miklos Radoti), Martin Sorrell (translator of Words Have Frozen Over by Claude de Burine), Anne-Marie Glasheen (translator of At the Edge of Night by Anise Koltz), Timothy Adès (translator of 33 Sonnets of the Resistance by Jean Cassou)
Admission is £5 or £3 for concessions
Nearest tube station : Archway then buses 143, 210, 271 or 214, W5
Further information 020 8348 8716
www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk
Fri 5th June 2009
Castlewellan Library (The Old Market House), County Down
Tony Curtis. Admission free, but booking essential.
Tel. 028 4377 8433
E-mail castlewellanlibrary@librariesni.org.uk
Thu 21st May 2009
Vashon Island, Washington, USA, May 21st-25th
Vashon Poetry Fest featuring Tony Curtis, Samuel Green, Michael Meade and others.
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Sun 19th April 2009
Drill Hall 1, 16 Chenies St, London WC1E 7EX
THREE SIDES OF A SQUARE, by MICHELENE WANDOR. Michelene Wandor's new play explores the overlapping fortunes of four people at the end of World War 1, leading to the British Mandate in Palestine. A staged reading with Philip Voss and Eleanor Bron. Directed by Jane Morgan.
Bar open from 2pm. Box Office: 0207 307 5060. Please book in advance. Admission free. Contributions welcome.
Mon 6th April 2009
Poetry Place, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2 (Covent Garden tube)
Exiled Lit Cafe – Heartlands: Reflections on Nature, Landscape and the Environment. Shanta Acharya was born in Orissa, India. She is the founder and director of 'Poetry in the House' at Lauderdale House, Highgate, where she has been hosting monthly, international poetry readings since 1996. Her poetry, as well as her articles on business, are very widely published and she will be reading from a forthcoming collection. Shanta Acharya's new collection of poems will be published by Arc Publications in the early Autumn 2009.
Tue 24th March 2009
Lewisham Library, 199/201 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham SE13 6LG
Anise Koltz and Anne-Marie Glasheen with Rarescale
Lewisham Library again mixes words and music, when it plays host to Anise Koltz, Luxembourg's leading poet and the highly-regarded literary translator, Anne-Marie Glasheen, who has made her work accessible to English-speakers.
The event will feature music from rarescale, a group promoting the work of living composers, to compliment the words.
Tel: 020 8314 9800. Admission free.
Thu 12th March 2009
Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB
Viola Fischerova, Petr Halmay and Pavel Kolmacka
three of the poets published in Six Czech Poets. Part of a tour arranged by Literature Across Frontiers, the Czech Centre and with the kind support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Tel: 020 7437 5660 for further details
Wed 11th March 2009
Blue Sky Café, Ambassador Hall, rear 236 High Street, Bangor LL57 1PA, North Wales
Viola Fischerova, Petr Halmay and Pavel Kolmacka
three of the poets published in Six Czech Poets. Part of a tour arranged by Literature Across Frontiers, the Czech Centre and with the kind support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Tel: 01248 355444 for further details.
Wed 11th March 2009
Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD
Viola Fischerova, Petr Halmay and Pavel Kolmacka
three of the poets published in Six Czech Poets. Part of a tour arranged by Literature Across Frontiers, the Czech Centre and with the kind support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Admission free.
Fri 5th December 2008
Trinity United Reform Church, 1 Buck Street, Camden Town (2 mins Camden Tube)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Blue Chrome Poets PLUS the Russian poet Larissa Miller, who reads from Guests of Eternity. Poets from the floor welcome. Doors open 6.30. 1-2 minutes Camden Town tube. Entry £4/£3. Wine.
Thu 4th December 2008
Newcastle University, Bedson Teaching Centre, Queen Victoria Street
Timothy Adès and Francis Jones, translator-poets, read their versions of Brecht, Desnos, Cassou, Radnóti, Jansma.
Tue 25th November 2008
The Pushkin Club, Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA Nearest tube stations:Holborn / Tottenham Court Road
Launch: Larissa Miller will be reading from her new book, Guests of Eternity, No 23 in the Arc Publications Visible Poets series, with her translator, Richard McKane.
Admissions £5.00 or £3.50 concessions
Further information on: 0207 269 9770
Tue 11th November 2008
Old Common Room, Balliol College, Oxford
Jamie McKendrick and Michael O'Neill
Open to all and free.
Sat 1st November 2008
LANCASTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Dukes Theatre
Adel Guemar and Michelene Wandor
Wed 29th October 2008
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London
Lorna Thorpe, author of 'A Ghost in my House', will be reading with Abdul Jamal, Kate Noakes and Christopher Horton in an event organised by Tall-Lighthouse. Tickets £4. Visit www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk for more details.
Tue 28th October 2008
Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge
Reading by Jamie McKendrick and Michael O'Neill.
Free for Trinity Students, £1 for others.
Sun 26th October 2008
Blue Room, Spirit Level, South Bank Centre
Agnieszka Kuciak and Tomasz Rozycki represent the next generation of Polish poetry. Writing with an appetite for traditional poetic forms, themes and cultural references, this reading marks a shift away from post-communist writing, and is included in the New Voices from Europe and Beyond series.
Zoe Skoulding, Editor of Poetry Wales, chairs the event.
In association with Literature Across Frontiers.
Sat 25th October 2008
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
MOURID BARGHOUTI, Mark Doty, Jorie Graham, Valzynha Mort.
An international mixed bill of poets from Palestine, the US and Belarus read their new work.
Sat 25th October 2008
The Wensum Lodge, King Street, Norwich
Paul Stubbs reading from The Icon Maker
Free Event
In association with Eggbox, The New Writing Partnership and The Wolf Magazine
Fri 24th October 2008
TORQUAY Grosvenor Hotel, Belgrave Road
'FROM NORTH TO SOUTH' : Lynne Wycherley and Michelene Wandor. Lynne Wycherley's poems are individually accomplished, becoming a journey both physical and metaphorical into the high and wild places of the North. Michelene Wandor is a playwright, poet, short story writer, reviewer, broadcaster, theatre historian and musician, who performs Renaissance and Baroque music with her early music group, The Siena Ensemble. Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concs. inc. tea/coffee and biscuits. www.acumen-poetry.co.uk
Thu 23rd October 2008
DURHAM BOOK FESTIVAL, Gala (Studio 1)
Michael O'Neill will be appearing with Jamie McKendrick for a reading/talk, Q & A, and book signing. (Copies of Wheel will be on sale at this event.)
Tickets £4/£3 (0191 332 4041 or Gala Durham)
Fri 17th October 2008
The Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2
Mike Haslam reading at the Leicester Poetry Society
Thu 9th October 2008
Beverley Literature Festival
Sat 4th October 2008
BEVERLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL, St. Mary's Parish Hall
Adel Guemar and Michelene Wandor
Sun 28th September 2008
KING'S LYNN POETRY FESTIVAL, 26th-28th September at The Green Quay, King's Lynn
Paul Stubbs, Will Stone with Piers Alexander and Louis de Bernieres
Sat 27th September 2008
KING'S LYNN POETRY FESTIVAL, 26th-28th September at The Green Quay, King's Lynn
Elizabeth Smither with Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe.
Sat 27th September 2008
KING'S LYNN POETRY FESTIVAL, 26th-28th September at The Green Quay, King's Lynn
Adel Guemar, Jackie Wills and Lorna Thorpe
Thu 4th September 2008
WATERSTONE'S, Rose Lane, Canterbury. Info: 01304 380 866
KATHERINE GALLAGHER, author of Circus-Apprentice and Tigers on the Silk Road, reads with June English and John Whitworth
Tue 2nd September 2008
WEST LONDON LITERARY FESTIVAL, at Central LIbrary, 103 Ealing Broadway Centre, London W5 5JY
Wed 13th August 2008
GALLERY AT FOYLES, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB
Sigitas Parulskis, Eugenijus Alisanka, Gintaras Grajauskas read from Six Lithuanian Poets, now being published by Arc Publications. FREE, but advance booking essential. Email
culture@lithuanianembassy.co.uk to reserve or call 020 7935 9872.
Tue 12th August 2008
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL, Writers of the World, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Bernardo Atxaga with Emilio Calderon
Tue 12th August 2008
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL, Writers of the World, Charlotte Square, Edinburh
Sigitas Parulskis, Eugenijus Alisanka, Gintaras Grajauskas read from Six Lithuanian Poets, now being published by Arc Publications. Tickets (£6-£4) can be purchased online at www.edbookfest.co.uk
Mon 11th August 2008
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL at Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Chrissie Gittins with Gerard Woodward and Gerard Donovan.
Mon 11th August 2008
MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY, St. Peter's Square, M2 5PD
Sigitas Parulskis, Eugenijus Alisanka, Gintaras Grajauskas read from Six Lithuanian Poets, now being published by Arc Publications. FREE.
Thu 17th July 2008
The Studio, Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX (nearest tube Covent Garden)
KATHERINE GALLAGHER, author of Tigers on the Silk Road and Circus-Apprentice, reads with Gary Studley and Heather Wilson Queen.
Sat 14th June 2008
The Friends Meeting House, The Friars, Canterbury CT1 2EB (close to the Marlowe Theatre)
SOLEIMAN ADEL GUEMAR (poet and investigative journalist from Algeria) reads from State of Emergency at the 'Writing for Freedom': Writing Workshop and Performance Poetry for Refugee Week, organized by Kent Refugee Help. Programme: Writers' Workshop (with personal testimonies from refugees who have been detained / creative writing). Poetry (with Hubert Moore, poets from Write to Life, the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture and poets from the floor). Free entry. Lunch provided. Donations welcome. Further information / booking: Kate Adams, Kent Refugee Help, kadams314@hotmail.com or 07826395433.
Fri 30th May 2008
The Tai Chi Village Hall, 163 Palatine Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 2GH
As part of Linda Chase's 'Poets and Players' programme, LORNA THORPE launches her first full-length collection A Ghost in my House in the North of England in a reading with Penelope Shuttle, Helen Tookey and Edmund Prestwich. With music from Chris Davies and Matt Halsall. Tickets: £5 / £3 (conc) on the door. For further information about the venue and how to get there, visit www.poetsandplayers.co.uk
Thu 29th May 2008
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crighton Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
ANDREW JOHNSTON launches his new collection Sol in Scotland in a reading with Gerrie Fellows. Tickets: £5 / £3 – booking on 0131 557 2876 or reception@spl.org.uk
Wed 28th May 2008
New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, SW1Y 4TQ
With the support of the Scottish Poetry Library, ANDREW JOHNSTON launches his new collection Sol in a reading with fellow New Zealand poet, Gerrie Fellows.Admission free, but advance booking essential on 0131 557 2876. Nearest tube station: Piccadilly Circus