Sean Bonney at Prague Microfestival

Video of Sean Bonney reading at the Prague Microfestival, May 2011.

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

Arts Uncut Space @ BHS Oxford St.

Saturday 26th March, 2pm

As well as the below, Sean Bonney and Nat Raha will be reading, amongst others:

TURN BHS into an ARTSpace

ART: THEATRE: POETRY: SPOKEN WORD: INTERACTIVE: LIVE MUSIC: COLOURING IN ...with UK Uncut and Art Uncut... 2-3.30pm

Actors Sam and Timothy West will perform together and help transform BHS into an artspace.

They will be joined by musicians and performers and a ukelele or two; with contributions from writers and theatre makers Stella Duffy, Chris Thorpe, Andy Field (Forest Fringe), Matthew David Scott, Alan Lane of Slunglow Theatre, Lisa Cagnacci... (more names tba)

There will be a performance by Aliki Chapple - of a play from Theatre Uncut, performance lectures, one-to-one encounters, poetry, painting, drawing and dancing...

AND there is still space to contribute your material - if you'd like to contribute - please contact ukuncut@gmail.com with 'BHS Arts' in the subject heading...and bring your own art/instruments/drums on the day...

Be inside BHS near to the Oxford Street doors before 2pm. The signal will be 'an audience member' hushing... (join in) ready for curtain up at 2:01.

BHS, Oxford Street, London

Sous Les Pavés III

Sous Les Pavés III includes work by:

• Sean Bonney
• Susan Briante
• Sommer Browning
• Lara Buckerton
• Collective Anon
• Elliot Colla
• Linh Dinh
• David Hadbawnik
• j/j hastain
• Danny Hayward
• Justin Katko
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Pocahontis Mildew
• Goat Far DT
• Jay James May
• Debrah Morkun
• Richard Owens
• Keston Sutherland
• Tomas Weber

Sous Les Pavés is a free bi-monthly publication distributed by mailing list only. Out-of-print issues can be read, downloaded and printed for free at the Sous Les Pavés website.

The Blue Bus

Tuesday 15th March, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney
• Mike Weller

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

Sean Bonney: Art in Revolution

LATE NOTICE Friday 4th March, 7pm

Sean Bonney talk on Art in Revolution:

Like social life itself, artistic work goes into convulsions when it enters revolutionary periods. As an example of this process, I’d like to offer a lecture on the breakdowns between boundaries between artforms in the early years of the Russian Revolution /// talking about poets like Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, about filmmakers like Eisenenstein, composers like Avraamov (if possible I’d like to play a recording of his Symphony of Sirens at massive volume) /// and talking about them as an example of how avant-garde art can become revolutionary (& contribute to social revolution) with absolutely no compromise in its complexity etc.

This wouldn’t be a simple historical lecture – I’d be talking about these artists as a way for us to think about how we as artists (& in particular experimental artists) can be contributing to the struggles we are all engaged in right now.

The Hand and Racquet Public House, 48 Whitcomb Street, London WC2H 7HA

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.

Howl

Contact Steven Fowler for more information.

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.

The Literateur Interviews Sean Bonney

An interview with Sean Bonney by The Literateur:

But it’s true there is a very real resistance to complex poetry, and it’s strange because people don’t have the same problems with music, or the visual arts, or film or whatever... Poetry, or at least the areas of it that I’m interested in, is always going to [be] difficult because it’s consciously focussing on language as the medium people exist within and understand the world through – a medium that’s usually only used for information, instructions, commands and so on. It’s probably the most alienating of the artforms. Great. I’m happy with that.