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Saturday 5 May
The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, South London, 7.30pm
Will Montgomery and Carol Watts perform new sound/text works at Sound Fjord's pop-up SOUND//SPACE, the opening night of a series of events running until the end of July. Details can be found here.
Saturday 12 - Wednesday 16 May 2012
4th Prague Microfestival
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Prague Microfestival is a festival centering on contemporary innovative poetry whose dazzling string of readings will take off daily at 6pm (with the exception of Tue May 15th) and will showcase thirty poets from eight countries, a gig at each festival night's closing and an exhibition of art thematically related to the festival. The festival languages are English and Czech and the entry is free. Among others, the festival will offer a launch of the freshly pressed PMF 2011 anthology Polibek s rozvodnou (including 17 authors in Czech translation), launch of the international revue for literature and visual arts VLAK 3 and the title Cartographies of the In-Between, devoted to the poetry of Pierre Joris.
PMF poets share willingness to experiment and to examine language, boundary bewteen the word and sound, territories. Some of them are authors of "translocal" poetry, some of them members of the Prague anglophone scene, some of them poets associated with presses like Dusie, Veer Books, and others.
The festival is held with the kind support of the Psí Víno magazine, Petr Štengl Press, Polish Institute Prague, Litteraria Pragensia, Equus Press, A2 magazine, Kulturní noviny and others.
Venue: K4 student club (Celetná Street 20, Prague)
Featured this year from Veer Books will be readings by Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Adrian Clarke, Becky Cremin and William Rowe, plus the launch of R.T.A Parker's new book from Veer, The Traveller & The Defence of Heaven
Continue reading » Veer Books @ the Prague Microfestival 2012
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Voiceworks 2012 Performance
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2012 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at 17.30.
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
The performance is free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/voiceworks-29988
A recording of the Voiceworks 2012 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.
This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC.
Friday 25 May 2012 - Sunday 27 May 2012
Poetry & Revolution International Conference at the CPRC, Birkbeck College
The current crisis makes it possible to think what couldn’t be thought before, which has always been the task of poetry.
With its echoes of previous crises of modern society, it places on the agenda a reappraisal of revolutionary art from the point of view of the necessities of the present.
Keynote Speakers
Joan Retallack, poet, essayist, activist, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College, New York.
Jack Hirschman, poet, translator, essayist, activist, Poet Laureate of S. Francisco 2006, member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
Mark Nowak, poet, activist, Director of Graduate Writing Programme at Manhattanville College, NY.
Poetry Readings
Friday Night (25 May 2012), 7.30pm
X-ing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount pleasant WC1
Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis.
Saturday Night (26 May 2012), 8-10:30pm
Polyply, 16 Acton St. WC1
Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak.
VLAK: Special issue launch on Occupations one hour before Saturday night reading. (Time: 7-8pm)
Papers: Approximately 45 papers on a wide range of issues over the Saturday and Sunday. Speakers from Portugal, Greece, the USA, Ireland, & the UK
Liaisons and co-operation with Occupied and Free Spaces
Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Sq. WC1
Contact: Stephen Mooney, estaphin@gmail.com
Supported by the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities
Click here for further details
Thursday 31 May 2012
Poetry reading by Julie Carr, Christine Wertheim & Matias Viegener
Room 415, Birkbeck main building on Torrington Square
7.30-9.00pm, all welcome.
Map available here
Wednesday 06 June 2012
Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
7:30-9:00pm - all welcome
Click here for a map link
A sound poetry portal
The wonderful AV Festival 12: As Slow as Possible is boredcasting over 744 hours throughout March. Still time to catch it here.
Empson's 'smack at Auden' via Cultural Amnesia
http://soundcloud.com/cultural-amnesia/09-waiting-for-the-end
Pitch, the audio collaboration between Carol Watts and Will Montgomery, is part of the advent series at Delirious Hem http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2011/12/pitch.html?spref=fb
Voiceworks is supported by
