Events
Programme 2010/2011
Wednesday 6th October 2010
Allen Fisher Talk - The Complexity Manifold (one of three talks)
assemblage and empathy: paying attention to poetic composition with regard to aspects of spacetime, catastrophe theory, decoherence and proprioception
Venue: 8 pm, Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London SE1
Free entry - ticket required from the Southbank Centre - Click here for further details
Wednesday 13th October 2010
Allen Fisher Talk - The Complexity Manifold (second talk)
reiterates the process of the first talk and develops those proposals through ideas of situation and dislocation
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London,
Venue: 7:30 pm, Room 541, Malet Street Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX
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Free entry - all welcome - no booking required
Wednesday 20th October 2010
Latin American Poetry Multilingual Reading and Booklaunch
Co-sponsored by the Native Spirit Festival www.nativespiritfoundation.org/ and the Poetics Centre at Birkbeck College.
7.30 pm in Room 421, Birkbeck College, Main Building, followed by a reception.
Cecilia Vicuña will be presenting the recently published Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry in Translation. One of the editors of the book, Cecilia Vicuña is a highly respected Chilean poet, performer, and filmmaker. She will be showing a short film of the visual poetry included in the book and reading her work and work by other poets.
Readers from English: Sean Bonney, Ruth Fainlight, Harry Gilonis, Frances Kruk, Stephen Mooney, James O’Hern, William Rowe
Readers from Spanish: Cecilia Vicuña, Albert Pellicer, Gregorio Fontén
From Portuguese: Goia
from Quechua: Cecilia Vicuña
from Latin: Harry Gilonis
Thursday 21st October 2010
Allen Fisher Talk - The Complexity Manifold (third talk)
Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway University of London,
Venue: 7 pm, Room G3, 2 Gower Street, Bedford Square, WC1
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Free entry - all welcome - no booking required
Friday 29th October 2010
VLAK in London
To mark the launch of the inaugural issue of VLAK MAGAZINE: CONTEMPORARY POETICS & THE ARTS, there will be an evening of wine & poetry at the Birkbeck College rooms on Tavistock Square, 29th of October, from 6pm, featuring readings by Allen Fisher, Caroline Bergvall, Carol Watts, Louis Armand, Sean Bonney, Holly Pester, Steve Willey, Richard Tipping, Lawrence Upton & Benedict Taylor ... & more!
Time: 18:00 - 21:00 on 29 October 2010
Location: Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom - Venue map link here
Everyone welcome!
Please visit the VLAK website for further details: www.vlakmagazine.com
Wednesday 3rd November 2010
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
The Centre welcomes Chris Beckett of the British Library, who will speak on the Bob Cobbing papers at the BL.
7:30 pm, Council Room, Birkbeck College Main Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr)
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Free Entry, All Welcome
Wednesday 10th November 2010
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
The Centre welcomes Lytle Shaw (NYU) on 'Baraka's Newark: Performing the Black Arts'
7 pm, 11 Bedford Square, RHUL
Free Entry, All Welcome
Friday 12th & Saturday 13th November 2010
Veer at the Small Publishers Fair 2010
Veer Books will be manning a stall at this year's Small Publishers Fair, (November 12th & 13th 2010) at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (11am to 7pm) - come and see us there.
At the fair this year we will be launching 2 new Veer Books: (033) Adrian Clarke – ‘Drastic Measures’ & (Burner 008) Nat Raha – ‘Octet’
The full schedule of readings on Saturday 13th is:
1:00 Hafod Press: Noelle Griffiths & Kim Atkinson launch Bird Song
1:30 Shangwe: Hair Power—Skin Revolution Nicole Moore, Pauline Walker and Fiona Joseph
2:00 Royal Holloway Poetic Practice MA Students: Christa Bloom, Prudence Chamberlain, Anna Lawrence, Robert Kilshaw, Jooyeon Park, Rachel Porcheret
2:30 John Bevis Aaaaw to Zzzzd: The Words of Birds
3:00 Holland Park Press: Arnold Jansen op de Haar
3:30 Sara Ranchouse Publishing: Sally Alatalo
4:00 Centre des Livres d’Artistes launch: herman de vries a random sample of the seeings of my beings and Nick Thurston il avait, il pourrait trouver, il allait
4:30 Reality Street & West House Books: readings from Bill Griffiths Collected Earlier Poems; Richard Makin andJohan de Wit with Juli Jana
5:30 Editions Héros-Limite: Simon Cutts Monotonie
6:00 Veer Books: Adrian Clarke, Out To Lunch, Nat Raha, Cris Paul, Aodan McCardle, Harry Gilonis, & Wayne Clements
Free admission to fair & readings
please see http://www.rgap.co.uk/spf.php for more details.
Wednesday 1st December 2010
+++ POSTPONED+++
The TALKSTALKSTALKS series runs periodically on Wednesdays at Birkbeck, and is curated by Professor Robert Hampson at RHUL.
The Centre welcomes the visual artist Katherine Meynell will be talking about her work.
7:30 pm, Room 225, Birkbeck College Main Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr)
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Free Entry, All Welcome
February 2011
Veer Journal 3 'Veer About' now online!
The new Veer Journal, in conjunction with Intercapillary Space is now available online
Veer 037 - ISSN 2046-3529
Edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe
Veer About includes work from: Jennifer Pike Cobbing, Scott Thurston, Karen McCormack, David Caddy, Gavin Selerie, John Cayley, David Miller, Maggie O’Sullivan, Harry Gilonis, Chris Paul, Matthew Martin, James Harvey, Antony John, Doug Jones, Steve McCaffery, Nat Raha, Wayne Clements, Steve Willey, Mike Weller, Martin Gubbins, Sean Bonney, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Richard Owens, Gregorio Fontén, Steve Fowler, Johan de Wit, Frances Presley, Rod Mengham, Becky Cremin, Justin Katko, Elizabeth Jane Burnett, Stephen Mooney, Greg Thomas, Mendoza, Rob Holloway, John Seed, Jimmy Cummins, Allen Fisher, Niamh O’Mahony, Keith Jebb, Carol Watts, Rosa van Hensbergen, Aodán McCardle, Peter Philpott, Tom White, Phillip Terry, Gilbert Adair, Ryan Ormonde, Edmund Hardy, Juha Virtanen
Published by Veer Books, London, in conjunction with Intercapillary Space in February 2011.
Click here to visit the Intercapillary Space site and to download a pdf of the journal
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/
Tuesday 15th March 2011
Veer Books Launch: MJ Weller's Beat generation Ballads (Veer 033⅓) and the 2nd edition of Sean Bonney's Baudelaire in English (Veer 012) at The Blue Bus.
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a poetry event, with Sean Bonney and M J Weller, at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room, on Tuesday 15th March, from 7.30. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). This is the forty-seventh event in THE BLUE BUS series.
See here for more details
Tuesday 3rd May 2011
Giles Goodland & Ron Silliman reading at BBK
7pm at 32 Tavistock Square, London WC1
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free entry - all welcome
Wednesday 4th May 2011
POLYply: Voicings
a joint POLYply/CPRC event
Christian Bök,
Lydia White
, Dan Scott,
Frances Kruk
, Emmanuelle Waekerle
7pm,
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St., London WC1
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Free Entry - All Welcome
Thursday 5th May 2011
Christian Bök - 'The Xenotext: A Progress Report'
Birkbeck Centre for Poetics welcomes Christian Bök
6-6.50pm, Birkbeck, venue tbc
'The Xenotext: A Progress Report'
"The Xenotext is my nine-year long attempt to create an example of “living poetry.” I have been striving to write a short verse about language and genetics, whereupon I use a “chemical alphabet” to translate this poem into a sequence of DNA for subsequent implantation into the genome of a bacterium (in this case, a microbe called Deinococcus radiodurans—an extremophile, capable of surviving, without mutation, in even the most hostile milieus, including the vacuum of outer space).
When translated into a gene and then integrated into the cell, my poem is going to constitute a set of instructions, all of which cause the organism to manufacture a viable, benign protein in response—a protein that, according to my original, chemical alphabet, is itself yet another text. I am, in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem—one that can persist on the planet until the sun itself explodes…. come and hear how the Xenotext project is working!"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/
a public talk, all welcome
Monday 16th May 2011
Veer Books @ the Prague Microfestival 20113rd Prague Microfestival, 14-18 May, 2011As part of the Prague Microfestival, in collaboration with VLAK magazine (www.vlakmagazine.com) and Psí Víno (www.psivino.cz), and in co-operation with Versal Magazine (www.wordsinhere.com), Veer Books will present 2 readings/launch events:Monday 16 May 2011, 6pm & 9pm
Venue: Krásný Ztráty, Náprstkova 10, Praha 1, Staré Město (www.krasnyztraty.cz)Readings from Sean Bonney, Ulli Freer, Aodán McCardle, Stephen Mooney, plus Gilbert Adair & Maurice Scully, with transaltions in Czech read by Donna Stonecipher & Jan Těsnohlídek.with the launch of:Gilbert Adair's 'Sable Smoke' (Veer Books),
Aodán McCardle's 'IS ing' (Veer Books)
, Maurice Scully's 'A Tour of the Lattice' (Veer Books)
&
Ulli Freer's 'Recovery' (Rot Direkt)
*All events are in both English and Czech.
*Free entry.
Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, and Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, VLAK magazine,
Psí Víno,
Versal Magazine, & Veer Books.
See here for more details
Thursday 26 May 2011
Voiceworks 2011 free concert performance @ Wigmore Hall
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2011 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 26 May 2011 at 18.00.
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
Voiceworks 2011 participants are:
James Wilkes, Benjamin Graves
, Donna Lennard
, Daniel Rudge
Suzanne's Secret II: Bechstein-Kultur-Film Version
Liz Adams
, Tom Kimber
, Ciarán O'Leary
Neon
Steven Fowler, Wenjing Wang, Hadleigh Adams
,
Lucy Roberts
The Righteous Harmony Society Movement
John Mackay
, Peter Yarde Martin, Charlotte Beament
A Guide To Touching The Human Heart
Ghazal Mosadeq, Michail Palaiologou,
Joseph Padfield
A Waning Bird
Vicky Sparrow, Jason Anderson
, Sarah Jenks,
Claudia Myles
Seirenas
Frank Podmore
, Tom Bassett, Nick Allen, Marion Wyllie
Spectrum Of A Theory
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.
A recording of the Voiceworks 2011 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.
Click here for more details
Thursday 2nd June 2011
Joint CPRC Birkbeck / Xing The Line event
Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, Bill Bissett and Adeena Karasick reading at BBK
7.00pm start, 32 Tavistock Square, London WC1 - click here for a map
All welcome - free entry
Monday 20 June 2011
A double bill - a talk and related performances - of polyvocalia at Birkbeck
6pm, 43 Gordon Square, Room 124
Cris Cheek, ‘Before I am Anything Else: provisional transatlantic communities in polyvocal poetic performance’.
& then around the corner…
7.15pm, 32 Tavistock Square
FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS
Lawrence Upton, Chris Goode, Cris Cheek, Holly Pester & others revisit work by Sumner, bpnichol, Basinski, Cobbing, MacLow & other scores, poems and possibilities
Free and all welcome.
Thursday 23 June 2011
Veer Books Launch Readings @ Festina Lente III, Paris, France
24 Place Sainte Marthe, 75010, Paris - 8:30pm - 11:30pm
5€
Readers: Demosthenes Agriofotis, Aodán McCardle, Stephen Mooney
Featuring the French launch of:
Veer 038 Aodán McCardle – ‘IS ing’
Veer 036 Demosthenes Agriofotis - '+-graphies'
FESTINA LENTE III
poésie acousmantique
Un cycle activé par Martin Bakero, Eduard Escoffet et Eric Périer - see here for more details
Thursday 28 July 2011
Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing & Veer Books Launch @ Birkbeck
Birkbeck Cinema Theatre, Birkbeck College 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - 7pm
Book launch: SJ Fowler's 'Fights - cycles I-XV' (Veer Books)
Also featuring:
Lynda Nead: 'Stilling the Punch' a talk & presentation on boxing imagery
Kasia Boddy: "Save the Public's Soul by Punching Its Face": Modernist Poetry and Pugilism
Tim Atkins celebrates Jack Johnson v. Arthur Cravan
Michael Zand: "The Klitova-Klinchko Kuntador"
Patrick Coyle: "The first painting i ever sold was of Muhammad Ali"
entrance free, all welcome - see here for more details