The Blue Bus

Tuesday 17th May, 7.30pm

• Frances Presley
• Zoë Skoulding

The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.)

The Other Room Anthology 3

£6 (UK) / £7 (ROW), The Other Room, April 2011

Featuring:

• Neil Addison
• Richard Barrett
• derek beaulieu
• Adrian Clarke
• Emily Critchley
• Ian Davidson
• Stephen Emmerson
• Allen Fisher
• Susana Gardner
• Ben Gwilliam
• Jeff Hilson
• Peter Manson
• Craig Marchington
• Nicole Mauro
• Chris McCabe
• Maggie O’Sullivan
• Posie Rider
• Jeffrey C. Robinson
• Jerome Rothenberg
• Zoë Skoulding
• Linus Slug
• Nathan Thompson
• Joseph Walton and Justin Katko
• Louise Woodcock

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

The Other Room 2nd Birthday Videos

Available to view here.

The Other Room 2nd Birthday

You can also read an interview with Tom Jenks, co-founder of The Other Room, at 3:AM Magazine, and read details of the forthcoming The Other Room Anthology 2009/2010 at The Other Room website. More details as and when it is printed.

Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets

An anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoë Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

£12.95 / $20, ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman, 2010 (Paperback, 211 pages)

ISBN 9781848610996

Available via the Bookshelf.

Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm

The launch of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, featuring:

• Sascha Akhtar
• Isobel Armstrong
• Caroline Bergvall
• Andrea Brady
• Emily Critchley
• Claire Crowther
• Catherine Hales
• Frances Kruk
• Rachel Lehrman
• Wendy Mulford
• Redell Olsen
• Frances Presley
• Sophie Robinson
• Zoë Skoulding
• Harriet Tarlo

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

Admission is free.

2nd Hay Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th June, 2010

Thursday 3rd:

• 6.30 - 7.30pm Festival launch and reception
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Robert Minhinnick, Childe Roland (aka Peter Meilleur)

Friday 4th:

• 2 - 4pm Keri Finlayson, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola, Samantha Rhydderch, John Goodby
• 5 - 6pm Zoe Brigley lecture, 'Surrealism and Welsh Poetry'
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey

Saturday 5th:

• 11am -12pm Phil Maillard, Ric Hool, Richard Gwyn
• 2 - 6pm Randolph Healy, Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding and other readers from the anthology Infinite Difference; launches of special Welsh issue of Angel Exhaust and of new Poetry Wales; Performance by Kathryn Ashill, other art events
• 7.30 - 9.15pm Elisabeth Bletsoe, Caroline Bergvall

Oriel Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay-on-Wye

Admission to 7.30pm events: £5 / £3 conc.

All other events free (voluntary £2 contribution welcome).

For further details and bookings, contact Lyndon Davies.

Facebook Event

via John Goodby

University of Greenwich: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Work Festival

Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th July

image by Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley:

There will be a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work, organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) & myself, taking place this summer at the University of Greenwich (London). The dates are July 14th-16th.

Confirmed writers and speakers so far:

• Alev Adil
• Caroline Bergvall
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• David Buuck
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Mairead Byrne
• Jennifer Cooke
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Jean Day
• Jacob Edmund
• Carrie Etter
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Susana Gardner
• Lisa Jarnot
• Daniel Kane
• Christine Kennedy
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Marianne Morris
• Redell Olsen
• Holly Pester
• Vanessa Place
• Frances Presley
• Luke Roberts
• Lisa Robertson
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• Lisa Samuels
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Juliana Spahr
• Zoë Skoulding
• Cathy Wagner
• Samantha Walton
• Carol Watts
• Sara Wintz

Room 315, King William Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

Admission is free (donations requested).

For anyone unable to make the festival in person, Steve Willey and Alex Davies will be filming proceedings. These will be made available online.

Update on Thursday 11 March, 2010 by Openned

Updated list of readers.

Update on Saturday 22 May, 2010 by Openned

Further updates to list of readers and location of readings.

Update on Monday 5 July, 2010 by Openned

Updates to reader list and room location.

Dusie 9

Now online. Featuring:

• Samar Abulhassan
• Derek Beaulieu
• Cara Benson
• Ann Bogle
• Jessica Bozek
• Ana Bozicevic
• Elizabeth Bryant
• Mairead Byrne
• Mackenzie Carignan
• Juliet Cook
• Sarah Anne Cox
• James Cummins
• Michelle Detorie
• Amanda Deutch
• Julia Drescher
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick
• Annie Finch
• Anna Fulford
• Susana Gardner
• Arielle Greenberg
• Tracy E. Grinnell
• Arielle Guy
• Jared Hayed
• Jen Hofer
• Carrie Hunter
• Jennifer Karmin
• Amy King
• Paul Klinger
• Mark Lamoureux
• Juliana Leslie
• Dana Teen Lomax
• Nicole Mauro
• Catherine Meng
• Bonnie Jean Michalski
• Anna Moschovakis
• Michelle Noteboom
• Dawn Pendergast
• Emma Phillipps
• Marthe Reed
• Kaia Sand
• Kathrin Schaeppi
• Zoë Skoulding
• Carmen Gimenez Smith
• Jane Sprague
• Jill Stengel
• Bronwen Tate
• Maureen Thorson
• Catherine Wagner
• Stephanie Young