The Blue Bus

Tuesday 17th May, 7.30pm

• Frances Presley
• Zoë Skoulding

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Third Hay-on-Wye Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th June 2011

2nd June

• 6.30 - 7.30pm: festival launch reception
• 7.30 - 9.15 pm: Ralph Hawkins, Allen Fisher

3rd June

• 11am - 12pm: film and poetry - Colin Still
• 2 - 4pm: Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green
• 5 - 6pm: lecture - Robert Sheppard
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Carol Watts, Sean Bonney

4th June

• 11am - 12pm: Frances Presley, Glenn Storhaug
• 2 - 4pm: Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoë Skoulding with Poetry Wales
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Kelvin Corcoran, Maggie O'Sullivan
• 9.30 - 10.30pm: grand finale - Chicken of the Woods (bluegrass band)

All Saturday in Salem Chapel proper, Elysium Gallery in collaboration with Hay Poetry Jamboree presents Bus Stop Cinema - a festival of short films.

Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.) (for events at starting at 7.30pm)

Admission is free to all other events.

Update on Sunday 24 April, 2011 by Openned

• Info and bookings from goodbard@yahoo.co.uk
• Webpage for Jamboree
• Become a Friend of the Poetry Jamboree

Shearsman Reading Series: A Ground Aslant

Tuesday 1st March, 7.30pm

The launch of A Ground Aslant - Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo.

Readings from:

• Ian Davidson
• Mark Dickinson
• Peter Larkin
• Helen Macdonald
• Wendy Mulford (TBC)
• Frances Presley
• Peter Riley
• Harriet Tarlo
• Carol Watts

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

Admission is free.

Veer About

Veer About 2010-2011 has been specifically designed as an online publication with fully clickable contents page, while also utilising the pdf format to embed video, audio and visual work, in addition to text.

Available as a free download from Intercapillary Space.

Edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe.

Featuring:

• Gilbert Adair
• Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
• Sean Bonney
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• David Caddy
• John Cayley
• Wayne Clements
• Jennifer Pike Cobbing
• Becky Cremin
• Jimmy Cummins
• Allen Fisher
• Gregorio Fontén
• Steven Fowler
• Edmund Hardy
• Harry Gilonis
• Martin Gubbins
• James Harvey
• Rosa van Hensbergen
• Rob Holloway
• Keith Jebb
• Antony John
• Doug Jones
• Justin Katko
• Matthew Martin
• Steve McCaffery
• Aodán McCardle
• Karen McCormack
• Mendoza
• Rod Mengham
• David Miller
• Stephen Mooney
• Niamh O’Mahony
• Maggie O’Sullivan
• Ryan Ormonde
• Richard Owens
• Chris Paul
• Peter Philpott
• Frances Presley
• Nat Raha
• John Seed
• Gavin Selerie
• Phillip Terry
• Greg Thomas
• Scott Thurston
• Juha Virtanen
• Carol Watts
• Mike Weller
• Tom White
• Steve Willey
• Johan de Wit

Update on Thursday 24 February, 2011 by Openned

Corrected spelling of Rosa van Hensbergen.

Infinite Difference Reading: University of East Anglia

Tuesday 22nd February, 7pm

A reading by contributors to Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

• Anne Blonstein
• Carrie Etter
• Rachel Lehrman
• Wendy Mulford
• Frances Presley
• Anna Reckin
• Lucy Sheerman

Drama Studio, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Admission is free.

Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry

Thursday 2nd September, 6.45pm

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2010

• Tilla Brading
• Ian Davidson
• Allen Fisher
• Frances Presley
• Peter Riley
• Iain Sinclair

Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

Visit website for further details.

Anna Mendelssohn & Grace Lake Celebration

Wednesday 15th September, 6 - 9pm

There will be readings from among others:

• Sean Bonney
• Chloe Harries
• Jane Liddell-King
• Ian Patterson
• Frances Presley
• Barry Schwabsky

Council Room, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1

Admission is free, all welcome. Please contact Carol Watts if you are planning to attend or would like to read.

via The Other Room

Update on Monday 13 September, 2010 by Openned

Change of Venue the reading will now be held at 32 Tavistock Square in Birkbeck College.

Bradford Reading

Monday 14th June, 8.30pm

• Frances Presley
• Harriet Tarlo

New Beehive Inn, Westgate Bradford BD1 3AA

Admission is free.

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.