Salt Night

Thursday 4th March, 5 - 6.30pm

• John James
• Simon Perril
• Tom Raworth

De Monfort University, Gateway Street, Leicester LE1 9BH

Admission is free, but tickets must be booked.

Cambridge Poetry Reading

Late notice:

Friday 19th February, 8pm

• Tom Jones
• Neil Pattinson
• Nick Potamitis

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome.

Sean Bonney at Edge Hill

Thursday 25th February, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney

Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Saint Helen's Road, Ormskirk L39 4PZ

Admission £3.50

The Cambridge Reading Series

Friday 12th February, 7.30pm

• Francesca Lisette
• Stephen Rodefer

The Cambridge Reading Series (CRS) is a new cycle of poetry readings taking place at the Faculty of English in Cambridge.

Dialogic in form and international in scope, this dynamic series breaks with the usual format. In addition to reading their own work, poets will also read the work of another poet, bringing a new dimension to the readings.

Each reading will be accompanied by a pamphlet publication featuring a selection of the participating poets’ work and critical responses to them.

The Cambridge Reading Series is made possible by the Judith E. Wilson Fund and organised by English graduate students Ryan Dobran, Ian Heames, Justin Katko, Laura Kilbride, and Mike Wallace-Hadrill.

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge

Admission is free, all welcome. Wine served.

Website

Chlorine Readings: 'CHLOROFORM VALENTINE'

Monday 15th February, 7.30pm (8pm start)

• Stephen Rodefer
• Keston Sutherland

Plus a screening of short film 'Heads' by Paul Ingram, magazines and books.

The Hope, Queen's Road, Brighton BN1 3WA

Admission £3 (unwaged) / £5 (waged)

Transgression and Its Limits Conference

Saturday 29th - 30th May

Plenary speaker Prof. Fred Botting

Reading and Q & A Iain Banks

Is transgression more than the tradition of subverting tradition? Have the conditions of post-modernity exhausted our ability to be shocked?

The aim of this conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to consider transgressive tactics in literature, film, critical theory and other cultural productions. To what extent has transgression helped shape sexual, cultural and artistic landscapes of its own period?

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers focusing on transgressive, taboo-breaking and politically resistant acts in literature and the arts. Please send a 300-word abstract and a 50-word biography to Aspasia Stephanou, Matthew Foley and Neil McRobert at transgression@stir.ac.uk by 19th March.

University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA

via Keston Sutherland

Marianne Morris in Cambridge

Tuesday 26th January, 6.30pm

Launch of the second issue of Cambridge Literary Review

Heffer's Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TY

Wednesday 27th January, 8pm

with Luke Roberts and Leo Mellor

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Marianne is also appearing at the Dial Society reading.

Salt Reading

The Other Room

Dial Society Reading

Friday 29th January, 7.30 - 9pm

• Andrea Brady
• Marianne Morris

Erasmus Room, Queens' College, Cambridge

Admission free, open to all members of the university

via Justin Katko