Kevin Corcoran & Peter Riley Reading

Tuesday 5th October, 7.30pm

• Kevin Corcoran
• Peter Riley

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

Admission is free

The London Art Book Fair 2010

Friday 24th - Sunday 26th September

The London Art Book Fair 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery. There's a film featuring Ted Berrigan, and one by Alexander Calder, and a Chris Goode workshop, amongst other things.

Whitechapel Gallery, 77 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

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Tim Atkins - 1000 Sonnets

The long awaited full set of Tim Atkins’ minimalist sonnets is finally here. First published by The Figures back in 2000 this if p then q collection contains over 100 extra sonnets to comprise 127. The title alludes to Kenneth Koch’s hilarious sequence of short plays/skits 1000 Avant Garde Plays and as ever Tim Atkins’ magic is in the spirit of that playfulness. You will have clocked some of these delights in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.

£9 (UK) £12 (ROW), if p then q, September 2010

England's Lane Books

Not often we let you know about shops on Openned but if you like the poetry section in West End Lane Books you will love this new shop:

England's Lane Books 

41 England's Lane, London NW3 4YD

This new shop has a load of events coming up. Today (Friday 17th) there is a discount day. Loads and loads of great poetry at discounted prices.

Caroline Bergvall - Middling English

Tuesday 7th September - Saturday 23rd October

Middling English explores some of the pleasures and complexities of language use, in and through writing. The exhibition brings together multi-sensory elements – spoken pieces, audiophonic compositions, printed broadsides and the strange memory world of pop lyrics – all presented through a stunning architectural installation. An animated webpiece accompanies the installation into the ether.

John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Admission is free.

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Keston Sutherland Reading in Helsinki

Videos of Keston Sutherland reading in Helsinki are now available here and here.

Sean Bonney - 5 poems after Rimbaud (Second Run)

A second run of Sean Bonney's 5 poems after Rimbaud is now available from Grasp Press. 10 of the 30 copies have already been sold, so be quick.

Crater 1

Richard Parker:

Crater Press announces Crater 1 - it's an unusual articulated broadside item featuring 6 poems by (young lion of the avant-garde) Michael Kindellan, and a reversible cover MK poster doodab for your wall when you're done reading.

Available via the lovely new Crater Press website.

Xing the Line - New Venue

Wednesday 22nd September, 7.30pm

• Sean Bonney
• Jeff Hilson

William IV, 7 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7QE (tube: Old Street)

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Full Metal Poem

FMP is an irreverent new Magazine edited from Amsterdam and Hamburg and filled with Poetry Art Photography. It's a beautiful numbered edition of 250 - around 100 pages with stencil-printing and a wrap-around handbound jacket.

Website

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