Events
Current Programme 2009/2010
We run seminars, readings and events throughout the year, and collaborate with other partners. This list is continually updated:
Thursday 1st October 2009
Veer Books launch at 'Crossing the Line'
We will be launching 6 new Burner Veer books:
Burner Veer 002 Tom White - 'Old Sense'
Burner Veer 003 Out To Lunch - 'Swift Blab Residue'
Burner Veer 004 Jon Clay - 'Here 1-24'
Burner Veer 005 James Harvey - 'Temporary Structures'
Burner Veer 006 James Wilkes - 'Reviews'
plus the long awaited Burner Veer 001 Jow Lindsay - 'Pressure in Cheshire'
Readers: Out To Lunch, Jon Clay, James Harvey, James Wilkes, and Antony John.
7.30 THE LEATHER EXCHANGE 15 Leathermarket Street, London Bridge, SE1 3HN. £5 / £3
See the Veer Books page for publication details.
Wednesday 7th October 2009
Susan Howe and David Grubbs in London - Seminar at Birkbeck College
3-5pm, Room B35, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC
Susan Howe and David Grubbs will speak about the ideas that have nourished their collaboration as poet and musician. Howe and Grubbs have released two CDs, Thiefth (2005) and Souls of the Labadie Tract (2006), works which take the encounter between poetry and music into new territory.
Each will speak for around 25 minutes and the second hour will be devoted to questions and discussion.
Susan Howe’s explorations of American history and letters place her in a line that runs from Emily Dickinson through Wallace Stevens to the frontiers of 21st-century lyric. She is for the remainder of the year an Anna-Maria Kellen Felllow at the American Academy in Berlin. David Grubbs is a former member of the post-rock group Gastr Del Sol whose subsequent career is notable both for his acclaimed solo releases and his collaborations with artists and writers.
Presened jointly by the Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre.
Wednesday 21st October 2009
Launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
Wednesday 21st October at 7.30 pm, Room B29, Birkbeck Main Building, Malet St.
There will be speeches and discussion of the journal, as well as an opportunity for readers and contributors to the journal to meet with editorial board members. Speakers:
Caroline Bergvall, Poet and performer, Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Southampton
Andrea Brady, Poet, Lecturer, Department of English, Queen Mary College
Robert Hampson, Poet, Professor, Department of English, Royal Holloway
Scott Thurston and Robert Sheppard, Editors, Journal of Innovative British and Irish Poetry
Followed by discussion and drinks.
All Welcome
see http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry for more information.
Wednesday 28th October 2009
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
The series resumes on Wednesday 28th October, welcoming Jonathan Kauphmann. ‘Work in Progress’
Drawing on his current studies of acoustics and notation, composer and improvising soloist Styles J. Kauphmann will question whether language and music aren't fundamentally immiscible, and the results of their collaboration inevitable failures.
Kauphmann was raised in Botswana and the United Kingdom, and educated at Cambridge and in Berlin. Examples of his work are available at http://www.stylesjkauphmann.org
Wednesday 11th November 2009
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
November 11th - the Centre welcomes Alison Croggan, 'Rewriting The Black Monk: texts in space'
Sponsored by the Austrailian Council for the Arts.
Friday 13 & Saturday 14 November 2009
Veer Books will be manning a stall at the upcoming Small Publishers Fair 2009 at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1.
Veer Books will launch new books from Piers Hugill (Il canzoniere), Tony Trehy (Space The Soldier Who Died For Perspective), Will Rowe (The Earth Has Been Destroyed), Antony John (now than it used to be, but in the past), and Aodan McCardle, Piers Hugill, Stephen Mooney (Shuddered), with readings from 5:30pm on November 14th at the Fair.
See the Veer Books page for publication details.
Wednesday 25th November 2009
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
November 25th - the Centre welcomes Kristen Kreider and James O'Leary, ‘Video Shakkei: live drawing and borrowed landscape'.
Wednesday 9th December 2009
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
December 9th - the Centre welcomes Ryan Omonde and Becky Cremin, 'How To Talk'