Wednesday 26th October 2011, 18:00-21:00

18:00-19:00

Launch of the 'Salt Companion to Maggie O'Sullivan'

with papers by:
Mandy Bloomfield - 'murmurings'
Peter Middleton - tbc
William Rowe - 'There's no all: Maggie O'Sullivan splitting the language'

'This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental writers. Maggie O'Sullivan has an international reputation as a poet both on the page and as a mesmerising performer. Influenced by Bob Cobbing, Barry MacSweeney and Susan Howe, to name just a few — her work breaks through traditional boundaries of performance and writerly practice and, along with Geraldine Monk, she can be seen as a profoundly important player in the early feminist avant-garde in the UK that emerged during the 1970s. She continues to be a major influence on new women’s writing to this day and this volume of essays rightly locates (and relocates) her influence, methodologies and artistic practice within a thriving alternative British poetry.'

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)
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029  jennypikcob – ‘The Conglomerization of Wot’
Veer Publication 029 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-17-9]
This second book of visual work from Jennifer Pike Cobbing displays the extraordinary breath of her practice as an artist. From photography, drawings, paintings, jewellery, work in ceramics, glass, metal and wood to textual and visual work for the screen as well as dance and movement, Cobbing has produced an astounding volume and variety of work, of which this is a small selection. Again, stretching over decades of innovation, this work demonstrates her unfailing ability to bring the visual into the field of the textual. Black and white and colour pages.
A4 size. 144 pages. July 2010. £12.00

035  Maggie O'Sullivan – ‘murmur’
Veer Publication 035 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-25-4]
'From a premier contemporary, murmur invitates us to revised attention, to a verbal & typographic spatiality where operates a liberating vulnerability to what irrupts. Taste at http://www.maggieosullivan.co.uk/murmur.html'
(Gilbert Adair)
Full colour work, available for the first time in print.
A4 size. 96 pages. October 2011. £20.00

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books

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