Ezra Pound Evening

Wednesday 6th July, 8pm

A talk and reading exploring the influence of Ezra Pound on radical contemporary British poetry. Keston Sutherland and Tim Atkins will discuss their relationships with Pound's poetry and essays, how they may be important to British poetry today, what the difficulties might be for poets writing now in negotiating Pound's achievement, and how his work has influenced these poets specifically.

Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

Admission is free but space is limited. E-mail specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to guarantee a place.

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Painted, spoken

Featuring poetry/essays by:

• Amy Anderson
• Tim Atkins
• Isobel Dixon
• Valerie Josephs
• Kristen Krieder
• Francesca Lisette
• Peter McCarey
• James McGonigal
• Peter Manson
• Alistair Peebles
• Richard Price
• Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
• Catherine Wagner

Available almost free (send two A5 envelopes, each with two second class stamps on them) to: 24 Sirdar Rd, London, N22 6RG

Surrey Poetry Festival Magazine

Download the Surrey Poetry Festival Magazine, edited by Amy De'Ath. Featuring:

• David Ashford
• Tim Atkins
• Jennifer Cooke
• Emily Critchley
• Amy De'Ath
• Elizabeth Guthrie
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Sarah Kelly
• The Liquid Bros.
• Francesca Lisette
• Joe Luna
• Nat Raha
• Jonty Tiplady

Poetry Day Festival: University of Surrey

New From Barque Press

New from Barque Press:

J. H. Prynne - GEORGE HERBERT, LOVE [III]: A Discursive Commentary

'Herbert for his part has put into suspense these "unchangeable rules" because the completeness of God's love for man is offered as a perfect and equitable freedom on both sides: but service once freely entered into is ordered by just these rules of divine equity. The example and model for the alternative, non-conditional sense of then and where it leads, is the unreckoned offering by Love of God's unreserved and unqaulified loving-kindness towards men. There are some traditional interpretative schemes in which God's love is conditional, upon sincere contrition, full repentence, upon justification through faith, and eventual sanctification. But in Herbert's scheme the invitation is unencumbered by reckoning: there are no special premiums or discounts or forward contracts, it is an offer made out of pure love - and, as such, hard for the guest to believe or accept because hard for him to comprehend. Yet it is not an indifferent act, because it is motivated by God's will towards man, that man should return a pure love, if so he wills, as the matching response to God's willed offering.' (excerpt from the Commentary, p. 69)

£10.00 (£2 P&P), April 2011 (92 pp.)

Tim Atkins - Petrarch

'Tim Atkins' translations of fourteenth-century Italian scholar and poet Franciso Petrarcha’s sonnets (in Petrarch) open an entirely different kind of functional space within the gap between media, and inject it with wit, contemporary vulgarity, and not a little libido. ...Love here is for men, women, and poems. Atkins pulls the poetry of his friend and lover into messy interfaced languages of multiple historical moments ("I won the Eurovision poetry prize in 1341"), employing a criss-crossing gang of references as company (Bach, YouTube, Henry James, Futurism...). If there is a systemic translation methodology employed across the various, non-chronologically arranged sonnets, I have yet to discover it; the sharpness of the poems allows them to stand solidly outside of any framework, while taking place at high volume, with nerve, emotion, and wit all equally maximized.' Eddie Hopely, Poetry Project Newsletter 233 (Dec 2010)

£10.00 (£2 P&P), April 2011

ISBN 978-1-903488-78-2

Maintenant Presents Lithuanian & British Poetry

Saturday 9th April, 7pm

Collaborative, ebullient and eminently unique, we present a poetry event featuring some of the most exciting writers emerging in Europe. Challenging the linear notions of poetry as a closed medium, Donatas Petrošius, Gabrielė Labanauskaitė and Tomas S. Butkus from Lithuania will read and write in tandem with three of the UK's most vibrant poets, Chris McCabe, Tim Atkins and Jeremy Reed. This evening will evidence the depth and imagination of contemporary European poetics, declassifying notions of poetry as anything but a remarkable performance art.

• Chris McCabe & Donatas Petrošius
• Tim Atkins & Tomas S. Butkus
• Jeremy Reed & Gabrielė Labanauskaitė

Venue 2, Rich Mix, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA

Admission is free.

Nauja Poezija: Young Lithuanian & British poets in collaboration

Friday 8th April, 7pm

In a collaborative, ebullient and inimitable poetry event, we welcome three of Lithuania's finest young poets to London with a reception at Europe House and an exchange of poetry from some of the finest native poets the city has to offer.

• Tim Atkins
• Tomas S. Butkus
• Jeff Hilson
• Kate Kililea
• Gabriele Labanauskaite
• Agnes Lehoczky
• Donatas Petrošius
• Jon Shaw

More TBA.

Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P

Admission is free.

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Tim Atkins - Petrarch

'Hazardous and buoyant, with all the zip and sass of a Heathrow-unslough’d O’Hara. Not, decidedly, the programmatic constructivist plodding of routine translation homophonickal, not, apparently, translation exactly at all (though I suspect a rather deftly salacious argument’d carry for ’l bel tempo rimena’s being auscultated as "the golden age of homosexuality," like running a forefinger around a goblet to make it sing...)' - John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti blog

£10 / $20, Barque Press, 2011

ISBN 978-1-903488-78-2

Howl

Contact Steven Fowler for more information.

New From Oystercatcher

Tim Atkins - Honda Ode

£4, Oystercatcher Press, 2011 (A5, 12 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-41-1

Philip Terry - Dante’s Inferno

£4, Oystercatcher Press, 2011 (A5, 32 pages)

ISBN 978-1-905885-43-5

Cheques payable to P.Hughes at 4 Coastguard Cottages, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL

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