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.

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Sean Bonney & Maggie O'Sullivan Reading

Wednesday 2nd March, 6 - 7pm

• Sean Bonney
• Maggie O'Sullivan

Clephan Building, Rooms 2.32/2.33, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH

Admission is free but booking is required.

The Other Room: Fisher, O'Sullivan, Rothenberg

Bill Griffiths Collected Poems Launch

Wednesday 17th February, 7.30pm

Launch of Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1968-1980), edited by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards. Featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by:

• Sean Bonney
• Ken Edwards
• Allen Fisher
• Alan Halsey
• Geraldine Monk
• Maggie O'Sullivan

Room 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London

Admission fee TBC.

Veer Launch & Writers Forum Celebration

Wednesday 16th December, 7.30pm

• Adrian Clarke
• Jennifer Cobbing
• Maggie O'Sullivan
• Lawrence Upton
• Johan de Wit

The event will feature the launch of Maggie O'Sullivan's 'ALTO', Johan de Wit's 'No Hand Signals', Lawrence Upton's 'a song and a film', and a new book of visual poems from Jenny Cobbing, all from Veer.

Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Maggie O'Sullivan & Tony Cook Visual Archives

Ken Edwards:

A wonderful online archive has been opened up at Maggie O'Sullivan's website: high quality images of 165 paintings, mixed media sculptures and works on paper by the late Antony Cook, dated between 1970-2003. The works are abstract almost from the start, many at first glance minimalist in content but revealing on closer inspection an extraordinary richness of texture and movement. You can click on each of the 165 thumbnails to be delivered a higher resolution version of the same work.

Maggie O'Sullivan - ALTO

Maggie O'Sullivan's new book presents work from the 1970s & '80s: these powerfully constructed poems offer a place from which it becomes possible to exercise vital thought … rather than just to suffer life; to ride in sound and syntax the sinewy entanglement of material existence.


This publication, and all other Veer Books, will be available at the Small Publishers Fair 2009, as well as at various upcoming CPRC Birkbeck events, or by post directly from Veer. Contact Veer Books at veerbooks[at]gmail[dot]com for more information.

ISBN: 978-0-9558763-7-0

£7.50

Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Benefit Reading - Maggie O'Sullivan

[wpvideo b3hcG4pB] Maggie O'Sullivan read what is behind that where the curtains from ALTO London Poems 1975 - 1984 (Veer Books, 2009)

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Maggie O'Sullivan

[wpvideo onTLhNuY] Maggie O'Sullivan reading at Openned 14/05/08.

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Portrait of Maggie O'Sullivan by Charles Bernstein, 10-15-07

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