Ghost Cargo

Tuesday 21st June, 12 - 1.30pm

At midday on the 2011 summer solstice, Tuesday, 21 June 2011, the skies above and around Leeds city centre will play host to a unique ‘sky writing’ project conceived by internationally renowned artist and writer, Caroline Bergvall, and delivered as a part of the 20th annual Refugee Week celebrations. As part of the project, the artist is inviting people right across Leeds to pick up their phones and video cameras, film the artwork as it passes overhead, and upload their footage to this Event page.

More information about the project can be found here: www.writingencounters.org. via The Other Room

Caroline Bergvall - Middling English

Saturday 5th March, 3.30pm

Artist talk by Caroline Bergvall.

British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Admission is free.

Caroline Bergvall at Edge Hill

Wednesday 26th January, 7.30pm

• Caroline Bergvall

Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire

All welcome.

Admission £4

VLAK MAGAZINE

Friday 29th October, 6pm

The inaugural issue of VLAK MAGAZINE: CONTEMPORARY POETICS: THE ARTS

• Louis Armand
• Caroline Bergvall
• Sean Bonney
• Allen Fisher
• Holly Pester
• Carol Watts

Birkbeck College Rooms, Tavistock Square, London

Caroline Bergvall - Middling English

Tuesday 7th September - Saturday 23rd October

Middling English explores some of the pleasures and complexities of language use, in and through writing. The exhibition brings together multi-sensory elements – spoken pieces, audiophonic compositions, printed broadsides and the strange memory world of pop lyrics – all presented through a stunning architectural installation. An animated webpiece accompanies the installation into the ether.

John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Admission is free.

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(W)reading Performance Writing

In (W)reading Performance Writing writer and Co-Director of Open Dialogues Rachel Lois Clapham has assembled twenty practitioners from diverse fields of poetry, theatre, visual art and performance on the topic of Performance Writing. This unique guide comprises of syllabuses, manifestos, scores, personal testimonies and practical exercises, many drawn from resources available in the Live Art Development Agency study room. It also includes a detailed subject area index. This publication is highly speculative and encourages an active read. A note on its reading can be found in the section Invitation to (W)read.

Authors included:

• Charles Bernstein
• Caroline Bergvall
• David Berridge
• Rachel Lois Clapham
• Emma Cocker
• Mark Caffrey
• Alex Eisenberg
• John Hall
• Claire Hind
• Richard Kostelanetz
• Johanna Linsley
• Claire MacDonald
• Rebecca May Marston
• Marit Münzberg
• Tamarin Norwood
• Mary Paterson
• Joshua Sofaer
• Danae Theodoridou
• Peter Walsh
• Simon Zimmerman

Design by Marit Munzberg.

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CLR3:TRANSLATION

Now available to order, featuring:

Poetry

• Joel Calahan: Four Genovese Poets
• Anne Blonstein: [Psalm] 13.
• Caroline Bergvall: The Fried Tale (London Zoo), Part 1
• Reitha Pattison: Four poems from the French of Bertran de Born
• Raymond Geuss: Avis Pacis and other poems
• Jonty Tiplady: Two poems
• Marianne Morris: Pierre Reverdy’s Art Moderne Retouché
• Henri Deluy: The Oath of Strasbourg, translated by Jacqueline Kari
• Peter Manson: extracts from Mallarmé’s The Marrying of Hérodiade: Mystery
• Ian Heames: Sonnet and Out of Villon
• Charles Lambert: Readings of Jean Genet
• Nicholas Moore: Eight Poems from the Nicaraguan
• Richard Owens: Four Ballads
• Andrzej Sosnowski: Three poems, translated by Rod Mengham
• Grzegorz Wróblewski: Richard’s Head, translated by Agnieszka Pokojska
• Alistair Noon: Two poems by Osip Mandelstam
• Adam Polnay: Versions of a poem by Hesse
• Sean Bonney: after Rimbaud Prose

Prose

• Eric Hazan: Faubourg Saint-Antoine [translated by David Fernbach]
• Kurt Schwitters: The Onion (Merzpoem 8) [translated by Peter Wortsman]
• André Gide: The Evolution of Theatre [translated by Julian Evans]
• Jeremy Hardingham: Enter Unfolding Exit
• Emily Critchley: Some Curious Thing

Essays

• J.H. Prynne: Difficulties in the Translation of “Difficult” Poems
• Lydia Davis: The Architecture of Thought
• Haun Saussy: Jean Métellus: A Portrait of the Artist as Horse
• Nick Jardine: Old friends (as opposed to falseand fickle)
• Yonatan Mendel: The Politics of Non-Translation: On Israeli Translations of Intifada, Shahid, Hudna and Islamic Movements
• David Bellos: Halting Walter
• Christopher Burke: Back to basics: Otto Neurath and Isotype
• Peter Zinovieff: Nuzuh

PW10

Friday 7th (evening) - Sunday 9th May

Programme includes:

Talks

• Redell Olsen
• Ric Allsopp
• Caroline Bergvall
• Jean-Jacques Lecercle
• Lone Twin

Performance

• Aaron Williamson
• Nancy Reilly-McVittie
• Low Profile
• Emma Bennet

Readings

• Tony Lopez
• Drew Milne
• Allen Fisher 

Multi-Channel Audio

• David Prior

Video Installation

• Nisha Dugall

Digital and Visual Text

• John Hall
• Jerome Fletcher
• John Cayley
• Ellen Bell
• Melanie Thompson

A Festival of Performance Writing and Cross-artform textual practice, with the opening of Caroline Bergvall and Ciaran Maher's 'Say Parsley' on the evening of the 7th May.

Arnolfini Gallery, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Day Pass £8 / £7 (conc.) 

Weekend pass £20 / £15 (unwaged) / £10 (students)

Website

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Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

£12.95 / $20, ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010 (Paperback, 211 pages)

ISBN 9781848610996

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm

The launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

• Sascha Akhtar
• Isobel Armstrong
• Caroline Bergvall
• Andrea Brady
• Emily Critchley
• Claire Crowther
• Catherine Hales
• Frances Kruk
• Rachel Lehrman
• Wendy Mulford
• Redell Olsen
• Frances Presley
• Sophie Robinson
• Zoë Skoulding
• Harriet Tarlo

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission is free.

Runnymede International Literary Festival

Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th March

Events of interest on Saturday 20th:

• 10.30am - 12pm Poetic Practice Workshop: Kristen Kreider (International Building In243) - 20 places
• 12.30 - 1.30pm Students from the MA in Poetic Practice (International Building In243)
• 2 - 3pm Caroline Bergvall and John Hall (Management Auditorium)
• 3.15 - 4.15pm Emily Critchely and Francis Presley (Management Auditorium)
• 4.30 - 5.30pm Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk (Management Auditorium)

Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

Admission to events is free.

Download full programme.