Current Programme 2012/2013
We run seminars, readings and events throughout the year, and collaborate with other partners. This list is continually updated:
Upcoming
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Veer Books launch at XING THE LINE
David Ashford, Dorothy Lehane, Nat Raha
19:30, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0AE
Two new books, XARAGMATA by David Ashford (Veer Books) and countersonnets by Nat Raha (Contraband) being given a push, if not a London shove.
August 2013
Readings 6 to go online
So far this year ...
Tuesday 16 October 2012
Lisa Samuels Workshop: 'Soundscapes, Polylogs, and Wild Dialectics'
Samuels is a renowned poet based in New Zealand.
Birkbeck College, room 540, Malet Street building, from 6.00-7:30.
Map available here
free entry, all welcome
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Voiceworks Alumni Concert
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP. 17.30-18:15
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
The performance is free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).
See the Wigmore Hall website here for more information.
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Maurice Scully Roundtable
Room 110, School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link
19:30 to 21:30
An invited audience will participate in a roundtable discussion about Maurice Scully's literary work, with the poet in attendance and taking part.
Friday 19 October 2012
Nick e Melville, Jennifer Cooke, and Willim Rowe reading at BBK
7:30pm. Birkbeck College, room 538, Malet Street building.
Map available here
free entry, all welcome - with wine.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
ON Seminar: On Voice
Please join us for a round table discussion on the subject of voice in poetics guided by Chapter 3 of Mladen Dolar's The Voice and Nothing More, 'The Physics of the Voice'.
Birkbeck College, room 540, Malet Street building, from 6.00-7:30.
Map available here
(This ON Seminar is open only to Birkbeck students (others will be open to wider participation from outside of the university))
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Amiri Baraka: The Muscle In Yr Head
7.30pm, Room 540, Birkbeck College Main Malet Street Building.
Map available here
Colin Still will be showing his film Amiri Baraka: The Muscle In Yr Head, made for Channel 4. Plus hitherto unseen out-takes, audio recordings, & footage from Baraka’s recent London readings.
Sean Bonney will respond to the film.
Followed by discussion.
Free entry. All welcome.
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 November 2012
Veer Books will be manning a stall at the upcoming Small Publishers Fair 2012 at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1
At the fair this year a new Veer book by Peter Larkin, Imparkments will be launched.
Reading will be Peter Larkin, William Rowe, Holly Pester, Doug Jones, Carol Watts, and Danny Hayward
Free entry, open to all
Wednesday 28 November 2012
ON Seminar: Jeffrey C. Robinson - 'A radical continuum: Romanticism and contemporary innovative poetics'
6.00-8:00pm, Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
- Click here for a map link
This is an open event, so all welcome - free entry.
Materials for the workshop are downloadable here and here
Friday 30 November 2012
The CPRC Birkbeck are happy to invite everyone to the launch of Alba Londres #03
7pm to 9pm, Room 632 in Birkbeck main building, University of LondonMalet Street, BloomsburyLondon WC1E 7HX
www.albalondres.com
The following superb poets will read at the event: Tim Atkins, Elizabeth Guthrie, Albert Pellicer, Tom Slingsby
Free entry, open to all
Wednesday 12 December 2012
ON Seminar: 'Poetry's Material Setting'
Round table, collaborative discussion on the silences and voices of the page.
6.00-7:30. Room 221, Birkbeck College, School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link
Thus is an open event.
Friday 15 March 2013
Veer Books launch - Martin Bakero and Doug Jones
Two new books from Veer: Martin Bakero's abjects & Doug Jones' Posts
7:30-9:00pm, Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
- Click here for a map link
Martin Bakero and Doug Jones will read from their new Veer books at Birkbeck College.
This is an open event, so all welcome - free entry.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books
Saturday 16 March 2013
Veer Books at the Surrey New Writers Festival
Veer Books will be hosting a reading and launch evening as part of the Surrey New Writers Festival in Guildford.
Featuring the launch of Allen Fisher's Defamiliarising ____________* and Martin Bakero's abjects .
Readers will be: Allen Fisher, Martin Bakero, Adrian Clarke, Stephen Mooney
Hosted by Stephen Mooney and Holly Luhning. (free admission)
Venue: Three Pigeons, Guildford,169 High Street,Guildford,GU1 3AJb (click here for directions)
Time: 6-8pm
For more details of the Surrey New Writers Festival see here and here
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre welcomes Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte
A presentation:
Poems for the Millennium: Volume Four
The University of California Book of North African Literature
Followed by Domopoetics
from 7pm, Room 253, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square WC1
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive
Free and all welcome!
Saturday 18 May 2013
Militant Politics and Poetry
Birkbeck College, 10am-8pm.
This is a follow-up event to the Poetry and Revolution conference. The aim is to take discussion further and link it specifically to militant political action.
The format will be different: A one-day event with an on-going plenary session and a total of around 30 people attending. It will be organised as 2 round tables, each with six speakers presenting initial 5-10 minute stances, followed by discussion, with a view to reaching conclusions and decisions that relate to action, not simply to debate. We will aim to produce a document.
Speakers: Justin Katko, Jennifer Cooke, Keston Sutherland, Sean Bonney, Stephen Watts, Harry Gilonis, Danny Hayward, Sam Walton, Zoe Sutherland, Will Rowe, Jow Lindsay, David Grundy, Martin Bakero
Thursday 6 June 2013
Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery Reading & Launch
The CPRC Birkbeck welcomes Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery,
with a reading of new work by both poets, and the launch of Karen Mac Cormack's new Veer book, AGAINST WHITE
7.30 pm, The Peltz room exhibition space in the School of Arts, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.
Click here for a map link
All welcome - free entry
Friday 7 June 2013
Chilean Poetry launch of Alba Londres 4
7.30 pm, Room 539, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square WC1
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive
Readings in Spanish by Javier Bello, Carmen García, Gustavo Barrera, Andrés Anwandter, and Adrian Fisher and Montenegro.
With translations read by Sarah Kelley and David Ashford
All Welcome
Saturday 8 June 2013
Veer Books will be hosting a reading and launch alongside Contraband Books as part of the Surrey Poetry Festival 2013 in Guildford, on Saturday June 8 2013.
The festival will run all day, from 11:00 to 20:30, in The Guildhall, 131 High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA.
The launch reading part if the festival will take place from 18:00 to 19:15.
Featuring the launch of:
Karen Mac Cormack - AGAINST WHITE (Veer Books)
Carol Watts - Sun Dog (Veer Books)
David Ashford - XARAGMATA (Veer Books)
Nat Raha - countersonnets (Contraband Press)
Other readers at the festival will be: Maggie O'Sullivan, Steve McCaffery, Ulli Freer, William Rowe, MJ Weller, Doug Jones, Mendoza, Sophie Robinson, Stephen Mooney, as well as students from the Contemporary British and American Poetry program at Surrey (Wafik Doss, Sophie Goodman, & Pippa Nayer).
For more details of the Surrey Poetry Festival click here
Thursday 13 June 2013
Veer Books launch as part of the Royal Holloway Contemporary Poetics Research Centre reading:
Lisa Jeschke, Andrew Spragg, Carol Watts
at which we'll be launching Carol Watts' new Veer book Sundog as part of the larger event.
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry, 7pm