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

Greenwich University End of Term Reading

First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival

Friday 16th - Saturday 17th April

• Tim Atkins
• Sean Bonney
• Andrea Brady
• Stuart Calton
• Vahni Capildeo
• Chris Goode
• Alan Halsey
• Jeremy Hardingham
• Alan Hay
• Jeff Hilson
• Tom Jones
• Trevor Joyce
• Justin Katko
• Michael Kindellan
• Geraldine Monk
• Marianne Morris
• Tom Raworth
• Sophie Robinson
• Jonty Tiplady
• Carol Watts

Information about costs, times, venues, and line-up will be sent out shortly. In the meantime, festival contacts include Keston Sutherland, Daniel Kane, and/or Sara Crangle.

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.

onedit 15

The esteemed onedit reaches issue 15, featuring:

• Amina Cain
• Lucy Harvest Clarke
• Ray DiPalma
• Tom Leonard
• Joe Luna
• Tim Atkins

Blue Bus

Tuesday 19th January, 7.30pm

• Tim Atkins
• Rob Holloway

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room)

Admissions: £5 / £3 conc.

TRANSLATED ACTS 3

Friday 27th - Saturday 28th November

Clore 101, Clore Management Building, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1

This third and final seminar focuses on presenting and discussing modes of practice that address in many different ways questions of cultural translation, linguistic or textual exchange, intermodal transformation. We wish to discuss the notion of translational poetics itself as a mode of writing and of thinking that articulates broader modes of contemporary cultural and ethical engagement/s.

The series exists exclusively to favour discussions and inputs from a whole range of text-led practitioners, both established, emerging and rearing to go. The writers invited come from different modes of practice.

Friday 27th, 5.30 - 7.45pm

• Carol Watts: welcome and introduction
• Galician poet Chus Pato and translator and poet William Rowe in conversation about her work, translation and language politics, and read from Erin Moure’s translations.
• Poet and visual writer Redell Olsen presents her recent work and ideas about crossmedia writing and appropriative modes in conversation with critic and translator Emily Tomlinson.

Presentations will be followed by a small drinks reception.

Admission free.

Saturday 28th, 10am - 5pm

• 10 - 11.30 am: Caroline Bergvall, Allen Fisher & Larry Lynch
• 12 - 1.30pm: Tim Atkins, Sophie Robinson & Carol Watts
• 2 - 3pm: Kim Patrick, Erica Scourti, Steve Willey
• 3.15 - 4.15pm: Kristen Kreider, Frances Kruk, Daniel Rourke
• 4.30 - 5pm: Closing discussion

Admission free, but booking essential.

E-mail Chris Rails to attend the Saturday seminars.

Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Benefit Reading - Tim Atkins

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Openned Anthology

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Jul 07 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: Home Page (PDF, 1.9MB) Six months in the making, the Openned anthology is an electronic publication of poets that have read at the first nine Openned nights. The anthology is completely free, available in PDF format in parts or as a full document. It is best to download the anthology in parts as it is a big file and it takes a long time to download. Save the file to your hard drive once you have downloaded it so you don't have to download it again every time you want to look at it. Poets featured in this publication:

• Aaron Wells 
• Albert Pellicer 
• Alex Davies 
• Alex MacDonald 
• Allen Fisher 
• Andrea Brady 
• Annabel Emson 
• Ceri Buck 
• Drew Milne 
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 
• Emily Critchley 
• Fiona Templeton 
• Francis Crot 
• Graeme Estry 
• Hannah Silva 
• Ian Hunt 
• James Byrne 
• James Harvey 
• Jeff Hilson 
• John Cayley 
• John Sparrow 
• John Stiles 
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick 
• Keston Sutherland 
• Lydia White 
• Marianne Morris 
• Michael Weller 
• Nick Potamitis 
• Piers Hugill 
• Redell Olsen 
• Robert Hampson 
• Rosheen Brennan 
• Rotten Elements 
• Sean Bonney 
• Sophie Robinson 
• Stephen Willey 
• Tim Atkins 
• Ulli Freer 
• Writing Machine / DJ Ed Rusch

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