Readings

Sunday 28th January 2007, 8 pm

Tongues & Grooves Poetry, The Florence Arms, Florence Road, Southsea, Portsmouth

DONALD GARDNER reads with Michael Henry, Maggie Sawkins and Tricia Torrington, with music by Nick Molyneux and Tricia Torrington.

Tickets; £2.50. Information from: Maggie Sawkins 02392 734180.

Sunday 4th February 2007, 8 pm

Pentameters, The Three Horseshoes, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead, London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, buses 46 and 268).

DONALD GARDNER and Jehane Markham read their poetry, with musical interludes by Peter Cadle (guitar).

Tickets: £5. Box Office: 020 7435 3648

Wednesday 28th February 2007 (evening)

The Enterprise [pub], 2 Haverstock Hill, Camden, London NW3 2BL (nearest tube Chalk Farm)

JONATHAN ASSER reads with Tim Wells, Roddy Lumsden, Annie Freud, Liam Rel and Sinead Hemsley at a 'Donut Press at Excess Express' evening.

Wednesday 28th February 2007, 7.30 pm

Darlington Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, Darlington

JOANNA BOULTER reads with Pippa Little and Celia McCulloch (both published by Vane Women Press) and S. J. (Jackie) Litherland (published by Flambard and Iron Press)

Saturday, 3rd March 2007, 7.30 pm

Salisbury House, Bury Street West, Edmonton, N9 (Wood Green tube then 329 bus)

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads from Circus-Apprentice

Further information: 8887 9500

Monday 5th March 2007, 8 pm

Coffee-House Poetry, Troubadour, 265 Old Brompton Road, SW5 (Earls Court tube)

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads with Kathryn Maris, Tim Cunningham, Robert Seatter, Nancy Mattson and Anthony Wilson

Further information: 020 8354 0660.

Tuesday 6th March 2007, 7.30 pm

FOB Café, Church Street, Sheffield (Cathedral tram stop)

Reading by IAN POPLE

Saturday, 10th March 2007, 7-9 pm

Cleary Hall, The Landmark Centre, 192 High Street, Deal, Kent CT14 6RB

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads with Maurice Riordan in the Deal and Dover 'Split the Lark' Poetry Festival.

Further information: 01304 380 866

Saturday 17th March 2007, 7.30pm

Trinity United Reformed Church, 1 Buck Street, Camden Town, NW1 (nearest tube Camden)

JOANNA BOULTER reads at the launch of Myra Schneider's new booklet 'Becoming' (Second Light Publications) with Ruth Fainlight, Nadine Brummer, Susan Utting and Lynne Wycherley.

Sunday 18th March 2007

Huddersfield Library

JACKIE WILLS will be reading her poetry at Huddersfield Library as part of the Small Press Trade Fair and Readers' Day.

Further information from MaiLin Li, Librarian at Huddersfield Library on 01484 221951 / e-mail mailin.li@kirklees.gov.uk, or from Arc Publications on 01706 812338

Wednesday 28th, Thursday 29th, Friday 30th March 2007

Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival (This year's theme: 'The Nation at 50.')

ELIZABETH SMITHER appears at the Festival - details forthcoming shortly.

Thursday 29th March 2007

Newcastle-upon-Tyne (details to be confirmed)

KATHERINE GALLAGHER leads a poetry workshop in the afternoon, and reads from Circus-Apprentice

Detailed information forthcoming.

Wednesday 11th April 2007

MILA HAUGOVÁ reads in Milan, Italy.

Detailed information forthcoming.

Thursday 12th April 2007, 7.30pm

The Albert Hotel, corner of Victoria Lane / Albert Yard, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Reading by IAN POPLE and others. Detailed information forthcoming.

Friday 20th April 2007, 8 pm

Ver Poets, St. Michael's Parish Centre, St. Michael's Street, St. Albans (parking in Verulamium Museum Car Park free)

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads with Martyn Crucefix.

Further information: 020 8881 1418.

Saturday 29th September 8.00pm

KING'S LYNN POETRY FESTIVAL, Thoresby College, Queen Street, King's Lynn

TOMAZ SALAMUN reads from his collection Row along with MATTHEW SWEENEY and ELAINE FEINSTEIN.

Tickets: £9 / season ticket £37 (concessions available) - contact Anthony Ellis on 01553 691661 (office hours) or 01553 761919 (other times). Further information: www.lynnlitfests.com.

Saturday 29th September, 7.30pm

POETRY IN PALMERS GREEN, St. John's Church, Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 (Wood Green tube, 329 bus)

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads with MAGGIE BUTT, JOHN KILLICK and MARTYN CRUCEFIX.

Further information: 020 8881 8881

Monday 1st October, 7.30pm

ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Studio

BULGARIAN POETS MEET THE NORTH: Bulgarian poets GEORGI GOSPODINOV and VBV, and British poets ANDY CROFT and LINDA FRANCE, read from the Arc's new anthology A Balkan Exchange. Two poets from Bulgaria: two from North East England. Their translations of each other's work provide a fascinating insight into the new Bulgaria: a country in the wake of momentous change. Expect sharp, engaging and dryly humorous representations of modern life on both sides of Europe.

Tickets: £4, concessions £3. Further information / booking: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or tel. 01943 816 714.

Saturday 6th October, 4.00pm

BEVERLEY LITFEST - BASQUE POETS WITH GUITARIST, Friends Meeting House, Quaker Lane, Beverley.

Leading Basque poets KIRMEN URIBE and FELIPE JUARISTI read from the newly-published anthology Six Basque Poets and the renowned Basque guitarist / singer RUPA ORDORIKA (www.ruperordorika.com) provides musical interludes. An outstanding line-up and a memorable introduction to this ancient language, its contemporary poetic expression and one aspect of its music. Reading in Basque and English.

Tickets £5 / £4 from 01482 392704 and 01482 392706

This event is jointly organized by Arc Publications and Literature Across Frontiers, and is sponsored by Instituto Cervantes, Manchester.

Sunday 7th October 7.00pm

BASQUE POETS WITH GUITARIST IN HEBDEN BRIDGE, Stubbing Wharf Public House, Stubbing Holme, Hebden Bridge (upstairs room) (off A646 near Charlestown)

Leading Basque poets KIRMEN URIBE and FELIPE JUARISTI read from the newly-published anthology Six Basque Poets and the renowned Basque guitarist/singer RUPA ORDORIKA (www.ruperordorika.com) provides musical interludes. Reading in Basque and English.

Admission free / collection taken. Further information: 01706 812338.

Monday 8th October, 1.00pm

MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Manchester Central Library St Peters Square, Manchester M2 5PD - Committee Room

PETR BORKOVEC and KATERINA RUDCENKOVA read from A Fine Line and the forthcoming anthology Six Czech Poets (pub. Nov 2007). Reading in Czech and English.

Admission free, but advance booking essential. Booking and further information: 0161 236 5725. This event is supported by Literature Across Frontiers.

Monday 8th October, 6.30pm

MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Instituto Cervantes, Manchester, 326-330 Deansgate, M3 4FN hosts the launch of Arc's new anthology Six Basque Poets with readings by poets KIRMEN URIBE and FELIPE JUARISTI and music from the renowned Basque guitarist / singer RUPA ORDORIKA (www.ruperordorika.com).

Booking and further information: 0161 661 4200. This event is supported by the Instituto Cervantes and Literature Across Frontiers.

Monday 8th October, 8.00pm - 10.00pm

CAFÉ POETRY AT THE TROUBADOUR, 263-7 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JA

JACKIE WILLS launches her new book from Arc, Commandments, in a reading with JANICE MOORE FULLER, ROZ GODDARD and C. K. WILLIAMS. A diverse programme of published poets, ranging from first-publication to long-established, award-winning, leading-poet status.

Tickets: £6 / £5 (concessions). Booking and further information: 020 7370 1434.

Tuesday 9th October, 6.00pm

FOYLES GALLERY, Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H

Czech poets PETR BORKOVEC and KATERINA RUDCENKOVA read from A Fine Line and the forthcoming anthology Six Czech Poets (pub. Nov 2007)

Further information: 01706 815338.

Wednesday 10th October, 2.00pm

CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Cheltenham Town Hall

A BALKAN EXCHANGE: Based on the collisions and interactions between Bulgarian and British authors, A Balkan Exchange is a remarkable new anthology. Writers KRISTIN DIMITROVA, GEORGI GOSPODINOV, LINDA FRANCE and MARK ROBINSON read from their work and discuss the re-imagining of a country.

Tickets £5. Booking and further information: 01242 227979 and www.cheltenhamfestivals.com.

Saturday 13th October, 6.30pm

MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, Manchester Central Library St Peters Square, Manchester M2 5PD - Committee Room

TARIQ LATIF launches his new collection The Punjabi Weddings. Whether writing about the Pakistan of his childhood, about people (those inhabiting his imagination as well as his family, friends or the shopkeeper down the road) or about the natural world, Latif's poetry in characterised by an engaging narrative quality.

Admission free, but advance booking essential. Booking and further information: 0161 236 5725.

Friday 19th October, 7.30pm

Dylan Thomas Centre, Somerset Place, Swansea, SA1

SOLEIMAN ADEL GUEMAR gives the launch reading of his first collection to be published in the UK, State of Emergency, with TOM CHEESMAN and JOHN GOODBY, its translators, both of the University of Swansea. No. 20 in the prestigious Visible Poets series, the book won a publication award from English PEN. Guemar was born and raised in Algiers where he worked as a journalist, writer and poet, but in 2002 he came to the UK to seek asylum for himself and his family.

Admission free, with wine. Further information: 01792 463980. This event is supported by International PEN.

Friday 19th October to Wednesday 24th October

[PDF] 12TH CUISLE, LIMERICK CITY INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL, Belltable Arts Centre, O'Connell Street, Limerick

JACKIE WILLS reads from her new collection 'Commandments' alongside MICHAEL LONGLEY and THEO DURGAN.

Saturday 20th October, 3.15pm - 5.00pm

TORBAY FESTIVAL OF POETRY, Belgrave Hotel, Belgrave Road, Torquay

KATHERINE GALLAGHER reads with WILLIAM OXLEY and RIK WILKINSON.

Further information: 01803 851 098.

Tuesday 23rd October, 7.45pm

LEWES LIVE LITERATURE, The Royal Oak (upstairs room), Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA

JACKIE WILLS reads with MATTHEW SWEENEY, with music by MARTIN HARLEY.

Jackie Wills's fourth collection Commandments looks at religion, relationships and the mind. Her cast includes Fidel Castro, a teenage rapper, a priest, an adulterer and girls in fairy wings on Brighton pier: people at their most ludicrous and poignant. She was named one of the top 10 new women poets of the decade by Mslexia magazine.