Peter Gizzi Reading

Saturday 18th June, 7.30pm

You are invited to a night of short poetry readings, wine and celebration to mark the end of Peter Gizzi's residence as Judith E Wilson Fellow in Poetry.

• Ryan Dobran
• Ian Heames
• Simon Jarvis
• Justin Katko
• Laura Kilbride
• Rod Mengham
• Drew Milne
• Redell Olsen
• Neil Pattison
• Ian Patterson
• Peter Riley
• Luke Roberts

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Wine and light refreshments. All welcome.

THE FOULE READINGS #1

Friday 17th June, 7.30pm

THE FOULE READINGS are a new series of contemporary poetry readings in Cambridge organised by undergraduates in English (Caitlín Doherty, Andrew Griffin, Connie Scozzaro and Tomas Weber).

• Neil Pattison
• Peter Riley
• James Staniforth
• Rosa van Hensbergen

The New Cellars, Pembroke College, Cambridge

The Pembroke New Cellars are found beneath Foundress Court, the new building at the back of Pembroke. The porters will help you.

Admission is free. Wine is free.

The Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

Friday 1st - Saturday 2nd July

Featuring:

• Jean-Michel Espitallier
• Laura Gadsden
• Judith Goldman
• Milli Graffi
• Simon Jarvis
• Tom Leonard
• Joe Luna
• Peter Manson
• David Marriott
• Rod Mengham
• Dell Olsen
• Ian Patterson
• Neil Pattison
• Reitha Pattison
• Simon Perril
• Nat Raha
• Tom Raworth
• Peter Riley
• Monika Rinck
• Linus Slug
• Timothy Thornton
• Adam Weg

The Nightingale Theatre, Grand Central, 29-30 Surrey Street, City Centre, Brighton

Admission:

• Weekend £20 / £15 (conc.)
• Afternoon/evening sessions £6 / £4 (conc.) per session

Contact Keston Sutherland or Sara Crangle.

Sheffield Poetry Festival

Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd April

Download the programme of events here.

Highlights include:

• 2nd April, 5pm Geraldine Monk, Helen Mort, Ben Wilkinson
• 3rd April, 1pm Making it up: The Origins and Accidents of Poetry - Kelvin Corcoran joined by Peter Riley
• 3rd April, 4pm The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry - Peter Riley, Mark Goodwin, Harriet Tarlo

Venues, maps and admission fees can be found on the Sheffield Poetry Festival website.

via The Other Room

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.

halfcircle two

Now out, featuring original poetry from:

• Alexander Booth
• Ryan Dobran
• Ian Heames
• John Z. Komurki
• Steve McCaffery
• Peter McDonald
• Samuel Meister
• Drew Milne
• Richard O'Brien
• Don Paterson
• Vidyan Ravinthiran
• Peter Riley
• Yolanda Tudor-Bloch
• Rebecca Voelcker
• Heathcote Williams

£3, from:

• Brighton Rainbow bookshop
• Cambridge Amnesty Bookshop, G. David Bookseller, Heffers
• Falmouth JAM bookshop
• Oxford Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Blackwells
• Paris Shakespeare & Company
• Sussex Sussex campus bookshop

You can also purchase halfcircle two via post by sending £3 and a stamped addressed envelope big enough to fit the slim, A5 journal to halfcircle poetry, 107 Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BT

For those in London we are still waiting to hear from England's Lane Books and the bookartbookshop. If you would be interested in having a bunch to distribute in London, or you would like to contribute to the next issue please get in touch.

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Kevin Corcoran & Peter Riley Reading

Tuesday 5th October, 7.30pm

• Kevin Corcoran
• Peter Riley

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

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.

CAMBRIDGE LITERARY REVIEW READING

Thursday 19th August, 6 - 9pm

• Helen Macdonald
• Peter Riley

Amnesty International Bookshop, Mill Road, Cambridge

Admission free, wine available.

Openned Zine #2

Now available to view in Online > ePubs, featuring:

• Peter Philpott explaining reasons and motivations behind the Great Works website
• Save Middlesex Philosophy
• Emily Critchley and Carol Watts provide a schedule for the Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival in Greenwich
• Jeff Hilson, Edmund Hardy, Richard Owens and Peter Riley on Mendoza, or, Linus Slug
• Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde and Karen Sandhu on press free press
• Harry Gilonis Edmund Hardy, Tessa Whitehouse and Michael Zand on Klatch 3: Dérive
• Luke Roberts looks back on the Sussex Poetry Festival
• Stephen Mooney on the launch of the new Voiceworks website
• Matt Dalby on a new sound-text-performance series in Manchester, Counting Backwards
• Timothy Thornton close reads Ryan Ormonde's firstdraftofhypertextrespondingtoalicefallingdownrabbithole
• Johanna Linsley on I'm With You, a series of live art events in Clapton, London
• Alex Davies on the Openned Table

Plus a set of regular new features: 

• Bookface
• Bird Puke
• Photography: in this issue, Sharon Borthwick, Marianne Morris, Nat Raha and Malcolm Phillips

Available in full-colour PDF or an easy-to-print black and white version.