Klatch 2

Klatch 2 is now available to view in Online > ePubs. The magazine was assembled on Friday 29th January 2010. Thanks to everyone who was involved.

Photos from Klatch 3 are also now available to view in the Nights > Photos section, and a copy of the magazine produced during this Klatch will be available in the coming weeks.

Openned Podcast #2 - Francesca Lisette & Timothy Thornton

Now available on the Online > Podcast page, featuring readings from Francesca Lisette and Timothy Thornton. Francesca reads from Tar Orchid and Timothy reads three untitled poems.

Unfortunately the audio quality of the original, longer podcast makes it impossible to hear some of what is being said. Instead, we are making a transcript available for download.

First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

Following on from a previous post where it was called the First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival, here is the line-up for the First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival.

Please note, all events are sold out except for Friday afternoon, where all are welcome.

Friday 16th April (afternoon) 

• 1pm Tim Atkins, Luke Roberts, and Carol Watts
• 2:30pm Sussex Student Medley (to include Francesca Lisette, Josh Stanley, Gareth Farmer, and others)
• 4pm Andrea Brady and Alan Halsey

Meeting House, University of Sussex

Admission £8 / £6 (conc.)

Friday 16th April (evening)

• 8pm Jeff Hilson, Vahni Capildeo, Harry Gilonis
• 9.30pm Chris Goode, Jonny Liron

Followed by Barkingside Band

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (afternoon)

• 1pm Michael Kindellan, Justin Katko, Marianne Morris
• 3pm Tom Jones, Trevor Joyce, Sophie Robinson

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Saturday 17th April (evening)

• 7pm Sean Bonney, Alan Hay, Geraldine Monk

Performance from Jeremy Hardingham

Followed by a reading and music from Stuart Calton and fellow music maker

Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

Cambridge Literary Review Issue 2

Out now. Featuring:

Poetry:

• Andrea Brady
• Sara Crangle
• Ray Crump
• David Grundy
• Geoffrey Hartman
• Ian Heames
• Peter Hughes
• Laura Kilbride
• Angela Leighton
• Francesca Lisette
• Rod Mengham
• Drew Milne
• Marianne Morris
• Alexander Nemser
• Alice Notley
• Nick Potamitis
• Posie Rider
• Stephen Rodefer

Fiction and Prose:

• Lorqi Blinx
• Ray Crump
• Chris Hardy
• Helen Macdonald
• Rosie Šnajdr
• Keith Wells

Essays:

• Gerald L. Bruns, 'Obscurum Per Obscurius'
• Marina Frasca-Spada, ‘David Hume, the Caliph Omar and the burning issue of metaphysics'
• Emma Gilby, 'Commentary and Impact: Longinus on the Sublime'
• Simon Jarvis, 'Spirit Medium: On Hegel’s Phenomenology'
• Justin Katko, 'On "Song of the Wanking Iraqi"'
• George Reynolds, 'Pound’s Letters: Towards a Poetics Including the 'EZpistolary'
• Keston Sutherland, 'Song of the Wanking Iraqi'

Letters:

• Robert Archambeau
• Andrea Brady
• Daniel Elstein

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£8 / £20/€30/$50 subscription (3 issues)

via Boris Jardine

University of Greenwich: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Work Festival

Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th July

image by Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley:

There will be a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work, organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) & myself, taking place this summer at the University of Greenwich (London). The dates are July 14th-16th.

Confirmed writers and speakers so far:

• Alev Adil
• Caroline Bergvall
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• David Buuck
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Mairead Byrne
• Jennifer Cooke
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Jean Day
• Jacob Edmund
• Carrie Etter
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Susana Gardner
• Lisa Jarnot
• Daniel Kane
• Christine Kennedy
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Marianne Morris
• Redell Olsen
• Holly Pester
• Vanessa Place
• Frances Presley
• Luke Roberts
• Lisa Robertson
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• Lisa Samuels
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Juliana Spahr
• Zoë Skoulding
• Cathy Wagner
• Samantha Walton
• Carol Watts
• Sara Wintz

Room 315, King William Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

Admission is free (donations requested).

For anyone unable to make the festival in person, Steve Willey and Alex Davies will be filming proceedings. These will be made available online.

Update on Thursday 11 March, 2010 by Openned

Updated list of readers.

Update on Saturday 22 May, 2010 by Openned

Further updates to list of readers and location of readings.

Update on Monday 5 July, 2010 by Openned

Updates to reader list and room location.

The Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 12th February, 7.30pm

• Francesca Lisette
• Stephen Rodefer

The Cambridge Reading Series (CRS) is a new cycle of poetry readings taking place at the Faculty of English in Cambridge.

Dialogic in form and international in scope, this dynamic series breaks with the usual format. In addition to reading their own work, poets will also read the work of another poet, bringing a new dimension to the readings.

Each reading will be accompanied by a pamphlet publication featuring a selection of the participating poets’ work and critical responses to them.

The Cambridge Reading Series is made possible by the Judith E. Wilson Fund and organised by English graduate students Ryan Dobran, Ian Heames, Justin Katko, Laura Kilbride, and Mike Wallace-Hadrill.

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome. Wine served.

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Klatch 2

The third Klatch meeting was held on Friday 29th January. At this meeting the second Klatch magazine was put together. Each poet brought 50 copies of their work to the Klatch and we made up 50 copies of a magazine, now called Klatch 2. We also broadcast readings and performances live from the Klatch via Openned TV. Each poet took two copies of the magazine to distribute by hand. There are now only 13 copies of the Klatch magazine left. To request a copy, contact us and leave your request along with your postal address. The magazine is completely free. Poets included in Klatch 2:

• Tim Atkins
• Becky Cremin
• Alex Davies
• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Edmund Hardy
• Johanna Linsley
• Fransesca Lisette
• Georgi M'Glug
• Nat Raha
• Sophie Robinson
• Karen Sandhu
• Linus Slug
• Tessa Whitehouse
• Steve Willey
• Michael Zand

Update on Monday 1 March, 2010 by Openned

Please note all available copies of Klatch are now gone.

Diverse Deeds (Updated)

Diverse Deeds has changed its early December line-up. Francesca Lisette and Sophie Robinson will be reading in place of Caroline Bergvall and Erin Mouré. Please see the original post for date, time, location ad admission prices.

Positive Action

Saturday 21st November, 7.30pm

POSITIVE ACTION presents A BENEFIT for U-TURN

The U-Turn project is a Bethnal Green based charity that is both under exposed and under funded. Its main aim is to help and work with "vulnerable and hard to reach women of all ages who have been trapped in the cycle of prostitution, drug addiction, physical abuse and homelessness from a young age". U-Turn offers them "an opportunity to self-determine their future in their own communities". Their main mission is to "support women who have suffered cruelty and abuse and encourage them to make sustainable changes in their lives." U-Turn helps to try and change these forgotten women’s lives around. 

Performing on the night will be a mixture of bands and poets:

• Vile Vile Creatures
• Bitches
• Frances Kruk (yt communication)
• Trash Kit
• Francesca Lisette (Chlorine Readings)
• La La Vasquez

The Victoria, 110 Grove Road, Mile End E3 5TH

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