Current Programme 2010/2011
We run seminars, readings and events throughout the year, and collaborate with other partners. This list is continually updated:
Upcoming
Saturday 14 January 2012
'Where Horizons Meet': A one day conference on Peter Riley
The Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - 9:30-17:00
jointly held by the CPRC Birkbeck and Royal Holloway & sponsored by Glyphi as part of the Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays book series
to register please send your name, your institution (if applicable) and whether you would like lunch to peterrileyconference@yahoo.co.uk
Click here for more details
February 2012
Readings 6 to go online
So far this year ...
Thursday 08 September 2011
Wurm Im Apfel & Veer Books: Launch & Reading in Dublin, Ireland
@ Hello Operator, 12 Rutland Place, Dublin(It's a gallery. So hip it aches / smokes like your granny's joints. It's actually not hard to find, but a little bit tucked away, so here's a map)Readers: Aodán McCardle, Stephen Mooney, & Maurice Scully
Featuring the Irish launch of:
Veer 038 Aodán McCardle – ‘IS ing’
Veer 039 Maurice Scully – 'A Tour of the Lattice'
free admission, refreshments - see here and here for more
Thursday 22 September 2011
A talk by Craig Dworkin, 'The Logic of Format: Prose into Poetry' @ Birkbeck
Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1 - 7pm
Introduced by Peter Jaeger
All welcome!
Jointly organised by Roehampton Centre for Creative and Professional Writing and by Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre.
Saturday 24 September 2011
Conceptual Gestures - Vanessa Place
A reading by Vanessa Place
6.30pm32 Tavistock Square, WC1
Free, Open to allThe reading forms part of the first 'Conceptual Gestures' event organised by Carol Watts and Edmund Hardy at Birkbeck's Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
Interview at "Intercapillary Space": http://www.intercapillaryspace.org/2011/08/that-quite-your-own-interview-with. - Click here for further details
Saturday 01 - Friday 07 October 2011
Veer Books in the USA: Readings and Launches in New York, Bard, & Brown
Featuring the US launches of Maggie O'Sullivan's 'Murmur', Bruce Andrews' 'You can’t have everything . . . Where would you put it!', Robert Fitterman's 'HOLOCAUST MUSEUM', Gilbert Adair's 'Sable Smoke', Demosthenes Agrafiotis' '+-graphies' and Aodán McCardle's 'IS ing', all from Veer Books.
More details to follow.
October 2011
Voiceworks, the Wigmore Hall Song Project, is an annual collaboration between Birkbeck, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Wigmore Hall. Postgraduate poets (both MA and PhD) working through the CPRC and postgraduate composers from the Guildhall School collaborate to produce songs that are performed at the Wigmore Hall by professional singers and musicians as part of the main repertoire.
This year's programme begins in October 2011, with a whole new cohort of students.
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Launch of the Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan, & launch/reading of Maggie O'Sullivan's 'murmur' and Jennifer Pike Cobbing's 'The Conglomorization of Wot'
18:00-19:00: Launch of the 'Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan'
19:30-21:00: Launch readings for the Veer Books 'murmur' by Maggie O'Sullivan and 'The Conglomorization of Wot' by Jennifer Pike Cobbing
The Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr), free entry, all welcome
Click here for a map link
Wednesday 02 November 2011
Veer Books launch (Gilbert Adair, David Miller, Tom White)
UK Launch readings for the Veer Books:
'sable smoke' by Gilbert Adair // 'Black, Grey and White - a book of visual sonnets' by David Miller // 'My Camp' by Tom White
19:30-21:00, Room 112, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD
Free entry - all welcome
Click here for a map link
Friday 11 & Saturday 12 November 2011
Veer Books will be manning a stall at the upcoming Small Publishers Fair 2011 at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1
At the fair this year Veer Books will be launching 6 new books: Johan de Wit's 'Lord Howe and His Sandwich', Alan Halsey's 'Even if only out of', Rebecca Cremin's 'LAYD', Simon Smith's 'Gravesend', Aodán McCardle's 'IS ing', & Esther Leslie's 'Bouleversed Baudelairizing: On Poetics and Terror'.
Reading will be Johan de Wit, Alan Halsey, Rebecca Cremin, Simon Smith, Aodán McCardle, Esther Leslie & Adrian Clarke
Friday 09 December 2011
Veer Books launch: Demosthenes Agriofotis, James Cummins, & Justin Katko
UK Launch readings for the Veer Books:
+-graphies by Demosthenes Agriofotis, FLASH BANG by James Cummins, & The Death of Pringle by Justin Katko
Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link
7pm, entrance free, all welcome
See here for more
Friday 16 December 2011
Launch of Alba Londres 2, a journal of multi-lingual translation
The CPRC Birkbeck presents:
Room 624, Malet Street building,
Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury
, London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr) - Click here for a map link
19:30-21:00, Free Entry. All Welcome
Guillermo Bravo (editor of Alba Paris) will present the magazine and the following poets will read their work:
Amy De’Ath
, Noèlia Díaz Vicedo, Carlos Fernández López, Aurèlia Lassaque, Richard Parker, & William Rowe
See here for more information: http://albalondres.com/2011/10/launch-of-alba-londres-2/