Barque Press

Reading Prynne

2006-11-16T10:04:00.000Z

The Graduate Lecture Series at Birkbeck College, in Association with the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, presents

John Hall and Keston Sutherland on
READING PRYNNE
Room 101, 30 Russell Square, 14 December, 7.30 pm

Reading Prynne

2006-11-16T09:17:00.000Z

Reading Prynne

2006-11-16T09:16:00.000Z

Openned 6

2006-11-10T11:51:00.000Z

The next Openned reading, 6penned, will take place at the Foundry on Wednesday 29th November at 7.15pm.

Confirmed readers include Redell Olsen and Emily Critchley.

TALKSTALKSTALKSTALKSTALKSTALKS

2006-11-02T19:24:00.000Z

November 8: Will Rowe: 'Poetry is truth in time of war': the RobertDuncan/Denise Levertov polemic.

November 22: Nikolai Duffy: Reading the Unreadable: On Kenneth Goldsmith.

December 6: Gavin Selerie: Skaldic manoeuvres: the making of Le Fanu's Ghost.

All at 7.30 pm, council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet St. Plus full programme for Jan-March 2007.

OPENNED 5

2006-10-23T09:19:00.000Z

The next Openned night, OPENNED5, will take place on Wednesday 1st November at 7.15 at The Foundry, East London (nearest tube: Old Street).

Readers: Andrea Brady, Ian Hunt, Ceri Buck, John Stiles

Reading in West Hampstead

2006-10-10T18:13:00.000Z

Peter Jaeger
Jeff Hilson
Tim Atkins

Poetry reading

Wednesday, October 18, 7 pm

West End Lane Books
277 West End Lane
West Hampstead
020 7431 3770

all welcome!

Readings by Langley and Riley

2006-10-03T12:11:00.000Z

Wednesday 8 November, 7.30pm, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL

Launch party for new books from Shearsman Press:
R.F.Langley (Journals) and two by Peter Riley, with readings.

Shearsman Book launch

2006-09-19T10:50:00.000Z

On Wednesday 20 September, 7:30pm, Shearsman Books will hold a London launch for 2 new titles:

No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-1995
byKen Edwards

and

Designed to Fade
byMary Coghill

Admission free.Venue: The Studio,The Poetry Society,22 Betterton Street,Covent Garden,London WC2H 9BX. Entrance is through the door to the left of the Cafe, also the one used to access the Society offices.

Poetry evenings at Parasol Unit

2006-09-19T10:24:00.001Z

Poetry evenings at Parasol Unit will resume this autumn with Leslie Scalapino and Catherine Wagner on 10 October, Sue Hubbard and Carrie Etter on 31 October and Drew Milne and Allen Fisher on 28 November.

Tuesday, 10 October, 6:30 pm

Leslie Scalapino is one of America’s leading poets. She is the author of some thirty books that cross the boundaries between poetry and prose, among them Considering how exaggerated music is (North Point Press), New Time (Wesleyan University Press), Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), and Defoe (Green Integer). way (North Point Press), received the American Book Award in 1988. An audio CD of her work was released by Stem Recordings, London, in 2004, and a new collection of her poetry, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night, is forthcoming from Green Integer in 2006.

Catherine Wagner's collections of poems include Macular Hole (Fence Books) Miss America (2001), and many chapbooks. She performs widely in the US and UK; new poems and essays appeared recently or are forthcoming in Verse, How2, Five Fingers Review, Action Yes, Soft Targets, New Review, and other magazines. Two compilations she is editing, A Poetry and Politics Primer and an anthology of poetry by mothers, will be published by Fence in 2007. She teaches at Miami University in Ohio.

Tuesday, 31 October, 6:30 pm

Sue Hubbard is an award winning poet, novelist and art critic. Twice winner of the London writers´competition she was the Poetry Society´s Public Art Poet and created London´s largest poem for the IMAX at Waterloo. She has published a number of pamphelets and two acclaimed collections, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon) and Ghost Station (Salt). Her first novel Depth of Field was published by Dewi Lewis. She is the recepient of a major arts council award to support the writing of her current book. As an art critic she writes artists´catalogues and regularly for The Independent.

American expat Carrie Etter has published poems in Jacket, The Liberal, Oasis, Poetry Review, Shearsman, and TLS. On her chapbook Subterfuge for the Unrequitable (Potes & Poets, 1998), Ron Silliman remarked, "To 'register the tongue's torque,' Carrie Etter's poems show great skill and a willingness to take risks, both rare things in a 'first book.' This writing is simultaneously 'out there' and always also immediately present (in the most literal sense of 'with it'), an experience that is by turns centering and dizzying. It's quite a ride."

Tuesday, 28 November, 6:30 pm

Allen Fisher, poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, has produced over one hundred and thirty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics, and art documentation. He is Professor of Poetry & Art and Head of Contemporary Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire, Alsager. His last three books were Place (Reality Street); Entanglement (The Gig), and Gravity (Salt Publications), and his CD Gravity Shapes is avalaible from Stem.Most recently, Barque Press published his pamphlet singularity stereo.

Drew Milne’s books of poetry include Sheet Mettle (Alfred David Editions), Bench Marks (Alfred David Editions), The Damage: new and selected poems (Salt), Mars Disarmed (The Figures), and most recently Go Figure (Salt). His work is featured in numerous collections and anthologies, notably Conductors of Chaos, edited by Iain Sinclair (Picador) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, ed. Keith Tuma (Oxford University Press). He edits the occasional journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing and the poetry imprint Parataxis Editions. He co-edited Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (Blackwell) with Terry Eagleton, and has recently edited the anthology Modern Critical Thought (Blackwell). As well as publishing a wide range of critical essays, he has books forthcoming on Marxist literary theory and on performance criticism, as well as a collection of his essays on poetry forthcoming from Salt. Sections from a novel in progress entitled The Prada Meinhof Gang have appeared in a number of journals, including Edinburgh Review.

Veer Books Launch: Circulation

2006-09-19T10:24:00.000Z

30th Sept. 2006

Veer Books Launch:
Burner on the Buff by Ulli Freer,

with Sean Bonney, Adrian Clarke, Jeff Hilson, Piers Hugil, Aodhan McCardle, Stephen Mooney, Eamonn Nugent, Will Rowe, Ben Watson reading their work

3pm – 4.30pm

British Library
the Poet's Circle on the Piazza
Euston Road /St Pancras

New from Reality Street

2006-09-05T12:11:00.000Z

Jeff Hilson: Stretchers
1874400342 78pp £7.50

Maurice Scully: Sonata
1874400350 106pp £8.50

Jeff Hilson launches Stretchers on 27 October (London venue tbc), together with Tony Baker, who will be belatedly launching his Reality Street book In Transit – more info to come!

Nasty Address

2006-08-14T19:24:00.000Z

call 4 work

hey POETS!

next yt communication bulletin is gonna be an antiwar special, so send your outrage, your bile, and oh yeh your constructive suggestions to Sean Bonney, 311Amhurst Road, London N16 7UX.

oh and we want noliberal handwringing - this things gonna be VILE.

Sean

More Crossing the Line

2006-08-14T16:23:00.000Z

Crossing the Line is pleased to announce a poetry reading by Maurice Scully and rob mclennan, on Friday the 1st of September, from 7.30, in the upstairs room at The Plough, 27 Museum St., London WC1. Admissions: £5/£3 (concessions).

Other forthcoming readings in the series include TomLowenstein and Christopher Gutkind (6 October) and Frances Presley and Tilla Brading (3 November).

STOP THE SLAUGHTER

2006-07-30T22:08:00.000Z

NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
END ISRAEL'S WAR ON LEBANON AND GAZA
SATURDAY 5 AUGUST:
ASSEMBLE 12 NOON
SPEAKERS CORNER, HYDE PARK
(Nearest tube Marble Arch)

MARCH TO PALIAMENT SQUARE FOR RALLY

Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, Lebanese community organisations.

Crossing the Line Readings

2006-07-22T09:19:00.000Z

Crossing the Line is pleased to announce a poetry reading by four new poets:

Allison Boast, Kevin Doran, Kelly Hallam and Joseto Solis
on Friday the 4th ofAugust, from 7.30
in the upstairs room at The Plough
27 Museum St., London WC1. Nearest tubes: Russell Sq, Tottenham Crt Rd, Holborn.
Admissions: £5/£3(concessions).

Other forthcoming readings in the series includeMaurice Scully and Rob McLennan (1 September), TomLowenstein and Christopher Gutkind (6 October) andFrances Presley and Tilla Brading (3 November).

END ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

2006-07-20T14:29:00.000Z

LEBANON TORN TO SHREDS
JOIN THE DEMONSTRATIONS 22 JULY (See below)
* More than 300 killed
* 500,000 flee their homes
* All major road destroyed, no supplies reaching many areas
* Apartment buildings, churches, mosques, petrol stations bombed
* Lebanon's largest dairy farm and pharmaceutical plant destroyed
* Desperate need for water, medicines and sanitation for those fleeing Israel's bombardment

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION

LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
(Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are some tube restrictions this weekend)ROUTE: Whitehall Place, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, Piccadilly, Berkeley Street, Grosvenor Square (by US Embassy), Park Lane, Hyde Park.

ORGANISED BY: Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative, Lebanese organisations.

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Sheffield, York. Details

Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival

2006-06-30T15:00:00.000Z

Readings at The Foundry

2006-06-21T09:35:00.000Z

Persons not playing in the Global Cup might want by way of consolation instead to drink lager and shout at:

Some poetry readings by
Jeff Hilson
Elizabeth Jane-Burnett
Keston Sutherland
Lydia White

Wednesday 28th June, at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St., London EC2A 3JL.
Tube: Old Street, exit 2.
Event organised by 'Openned'

SHIVER - a performance

2006-06-20T09:50:00.000Z

Tuesday July 11 2006
7.30 pm
Tickets £8

Theatre Technis
26 Crowndale Road
London NW1 1TT

Shiver is a theatre of gesture, sound and visual imagery inspired by the human story that weaves its way around 20 chosen words.An experienced cast (RSC, Cardboard Citizens, In Transit, Optik) are joined by live sound and video specialist Ben Jarlett together with lead guitarist of up and coming rock band Blackthatcher.

Created and directed by Barry Edwards
In association with Andrea Brady
An Optik production in partnership with piLab supported by PI Network

To book tickets telephone 01895 266505, email info@perform.tv. To contact the company Tel 020 8894 4027, email look@optik.tv

Poet Andrea Brady chose 20 words when asked by Barry Edwards to provide a starting point for a new performance piece. Shiver is the result - and one of the original 20 words – ‘a fragment, chip, splinter: broken into small pieces’. Here’s two more. Intern – ‘the body as that place of mysterious and sudden ruptures and invasion, where the other – disease, loved object, container – is kept.’ Watch – ‘in the dark watches of the night: the vigilance of the tribe.’

Salt Press launch

2006-06-20T09:49:00.000Z

JOHN WILKINSON / D.S. MARRIOTT / IAN GREGSON / TOBIAS HILL

An evening to launch the publication of four new collections by these highly-acclaimed British poets.

The Gallery, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, LONDON
JULY 12th 6.30pm
FREE ADMISSION
Please confirm attendance with Salt, as space is limited. RSVP publicity@saltpublishing.comsee

Readings by PETER MANSON - REITHA PATTISON - MICHAEL KINDELLAN

2006-06-20T09:45:00.000Z

Delighted to announce readings by
PETER MANSON - REITHA PATTISON - MICHAEL KINDELLAN
to celebrate new publications from BARQUE Press and AREHOUSE

Thursday, June 22nd
Doors at 7.30, reading to begin at 8pm
Bowett Room, off Lyon Court (West of the river), Silver Street
Queen's College, Cambridge UK
FREE ENTRY ALL ARE VERY WELCOME

To celebrate publication of: FOR THE GOOD OF LIARS by Peter Manson
and WORD IS BORN by Reitha Pattison and Michael Kindellan (Arehouse)
Published with the support of the Institut Francais.
Different translations of the same poems by troubadour poet Bertrand de Born, who co-owned a castle, and died in 1215. The translations are parallel, but the French is not included.
GBP £3.50. Available at the reading or from arehouse@cambridgepoetry.org.

REITHA PATTISON lives in Cambridge with her partner and baby son. She manages the translations list of a local academic publishinghouse. Word is Born is her first collection of poetry."MICHAEL KINDELLAN" is born in Toronto, and lives in London where he is working as a literary agent. Also works for Corriere della Sera and the Cabinet Office. He's published Baudelaire translations through Bad Press, some of which are same again in Quid, andtranslated Rimbaud's Le Bateau Ivre in Chicago Review, whereat he's contributing editorially.

Openned Poetry Reading

2006-05-30T17:10:00.000Z

Openned 2
Wednesday 31st May,
19:30 at the Foundry (nearest tube Old Street).

Ulli Freer, Marianne Morris, Albert Pellicer, Rosheen Brenan, Annabel Emson, and Jow Lindsey reading.

Steve McCaffery & Karen Mac Cormack reading

2006-05-30T17:07:00.000Z

Royal Holloway – Department of English / CPRC Birkbeck present:
A reading by

Steve McCaffery & Karen Mac Cormack

Thursday, June 1st 2006
19:45 Birkbeck College, room 101, 30 Russell Square, London
Nearest Tubes: Russell Square, Euston, Euston Square, Warren Street
Further details from Carol Watts on c.watts@bbk.ac.uk. All welcome

Barque in Marseille

2006-05-24T08:24:00.000Z

Poésie anglaise contemporaine
les éditions Barque Press

le vendredi 26 mai 2006, à 19h
avec des auteurs des éditions Barque Press:
Andrea Brady, Redell Olsen, Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland
et deux auteurs / traducteurs :Pascal Poyet, Jérôme Game

Poésie anglaise

À l’automne 1997, quand je pars vivre à Cambridge, au nord-est de Londres, Tony Blair vient juste d’être élu premier ministre. Ce qui me touche chez les poètes que j’y ai rencontrés – dont ceux qui paraissent ici – c’est que, immergés poumons et épiderme compris, pharynx et oreilles compris, dans la duplicité politique la plus subtilement putassière de ces dernières décennies, ils n’ont de cesse (par leurs œuvres, leurs revues, leurs éditions, leurs lieux de rencontres) de s’aménager des alvéoles d’oxygène pour ne pas asphyxier complètement, et, à partir de là, pour contre-effectuer sans pour autant devenir des moines-soldats. Equilibre malaisé. Equilibre très casse-gueule. Alternative à la con, pour tout dire : soit l’ataraxie mélancolique ou formaliste, soit la ‘littérature engagée’… Et j’ai l’impression, en tout cas c’est l’impression que ça m’a fait, c’est l’impression que j’en ai retiré, qu’ils développent une belle énergie pour débroussailler tout ça, et s’en extraire. Je ne sais pas où ils en sont maintenant. Je ne sais pas comment ils continuent de s’y prendre. En tout cas, on est tous dans le même bain – et c’est pas plus mal, de temps en temps, d’y être à plusieurs. --Jérôme Game

Barque Press
Une collection de « chapbook » (petits livres) de poésie contemporaine inaugure en 1995 à Cambridge les éditions Barque Press. Les éditeurs, Andrea Brady et Keston Sutherland, désirent travailler avec de jeunes écrivains et témoigner du foisonnement des courants novateurs de la poésie britannique; mais aussi faire face à la contre-contre-culture par une poésie, politiquement engagée et parfois brutale, mêlant la comédie au grotesque et au tendre. Nous avons publié ces dix dernières années une quarantaine de « chapbooks », cinq livres, dix numéros d’une revue littéraire marxiste : Quid, ainsi que quatre numéros sur cd roms. L’intervention de Barque en juin 2001, par l’ouvrage intitulé 100 jours – il s’agissait d’une critique par 90 écrivains des agissements putrides de l’administration Bush – ressemble rétrospectivement à une prophétie du désastre à venir. Des auteurs comme J. H. Prynne, John Wilkinson et Stuart Carlton maintiennent dans leurs livres une pression poétique quant à la « Guerre au Terrorisme », ainsi que dans le numéro spécial de Quid sur l’Irak. Le livre de Keston Sutherland, Néocosis, une poésie de l’absurde s’opposant aux conservateurs et à Roger Ailes, président de la chaine de télévision Fox News, est un autre titre marquant du catalogue des éditions Barque et de sa veine de bouffonerie matérialiste. En 2005 Barque a publié The Unconditional, un long poème de Simon Jarvis, qui renouvelle le pentamètre iambique à l’occasion du nouveau millénaire. Les éditeurs vivent à Londres et à Brighton, où ils organisent des lectures publiques. Récemment, grâce à l’assistance du Arts Council England [D.R.A.C. locale], Barque a intensifié ses activités ; les prochaines publications comprennent un livre de Peter Manson et un autre de Kevin Nolan, des anthologies de poésie et de critique, ainsi qu’une série de cahiers critiques. --Andrea Brady