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Update on Friday 1 April, 2011 by Openned

NOTE Contrary to the poster, Press Free Press will not be reading at this event.

Lecture: Dada 1916 - 2016

Friday 8th April, 7.30pm

Marc Dachy, Director of the DADA Archive in Paris will talk about Kurt Schwitters and DADA. Though it only lasted a decade from 1915, the outpourings of Dada - art, collages, plays - remain the stuff of the avant-garde, from Schwitters's sound poems to Duchamp's urinal. Marc Dachy will re-trace the events that lead to Schwitters departure from the movement and then focus on what might distinguish between a DADA and MERZ attitude in art. Followed by a panel discussion.

International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY

Admission is free, all welcome.

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Writers Forum Workshop (North) - Rescheduled

Saturday 9th April, 2pm

Everyone who wants to read and/or discuss their work will have the opportunity to do so.

Madlab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN

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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
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Wednesday 6th April, 7pm

• Ken Edwards
• Carrie Etter
• Alec Finlay
• Derek Henderson (via live stream)

The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 6AY

Admission is free.

The Poetry and Poetics Research Group at Edge Hill: Philip Terry

Thursday 31st March, 6.30 - 8pm

The OULIPO writers have been fascinating readers for many years now, whether through the novels of Italo Calvino or the masterpieces of Raymond Queneau, the teasing novels of George Perec or the poems of Jacques Roubaud. Experimenting with constraints (‘Write a novel without using the letter e’ or replace every noun with the seventh word after it in the dictionary’, through to complex mathematical systems) they have been slowly changing the way much mainstream writing is written. The results are often hugely funny.

The main practitioners are French and it is appropriate that the best British writer to follow this school is also one of its most adept translators into English. Now Philip Terry will be visiting Edge Hill for the first time to talk about his versions of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This hallowed work of literature is ransacked and re-written before our eyes. Come and see Philip read from, and talk about the work.

E21, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP

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Sheffield Poetry Festival

Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd April

Download the programme of events here.

Highlights include:

• 2nd April, 5pm Geraldine Monk, Helen Mort, Ben Wilkinson
• 3rd April, 1pm Making it up: The Origins and Accidents of Poetry - Kelvin Corcoran joined by Peter Riley
• 3rd April, 4pm The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry - Peter Riley, Mark Goodwin, Harriet Tarlo

Venues, maps and admission fees can be found on the Sheffield Poetry Festival website.

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