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 12 - Wednesday 16 May 2012
Veer Books at the Prague Microfestival 2012
Prague Microfestival is a festival centering on contemporary innovative poetry whose dazzling string of readings will take off daily at 6pm (with the exception of Tue May 15th) and will showcase thirty poets from eight countries, a gig at each festival night's closing and an exhibition of art thematically related to the festival. The festival languages are English and Czech and the entry is free. Among others, the festival will offer a launch of the freshly pressed PMF 2011 anthology Polibek s rozvodnou (including 17 authors in Czech translation), launch of the international revue for literature and visual arts VLAK 3 and the title Cartographies of the In-Between, devoted to the poetry of Pierre Joris.
PMF poets share willingness to experiment and to examine language, boundary bewteen the word and sound, territories. Some of them are authors of "translocal" poetry, some of them members of the Prague anglophone scene, some of them poets associated with presses like Dusie, Veer Books, and others.
The festival is held with the kind support of the Psí Víno magazine, Petr Štengl Press, Polish Institute Prague,Litteraria Pragensia, Equus Press, A2 magazine,Kulturní noviny and others.
Venue: K4 student club (Celetná Street 20, Prague)
Featured this year from Veer Books will be readings by Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Adrian Clarke, Becky Cremin and William Rowe, plus the launch of R.T.A Parker's new book from Veer, The Traveller & The Defence of Heaven
Detailed info including the up-to-date programme, authors' bios and photos from previous years can be found at http://praguemicrofestival.wordpress.com/
See here for more information
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Voiceworks 2012 free concert performance @ Wigmore Hall
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2012 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at 17.30.
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
Voiceworks 2012 participants are:
Group 1: DANIEL BARROW & PATRICK BRENNAN & ROSEMARY CLIFFORD
Group 2: IRUM FAZAL & HELGI INGVARSSON & MATTHEW MCGUIGAN & CLAIRE CANDY
Group 3: NELL STEVENS & BENJAMIN GRAVES & ANTHONY BIRNIE
Group 4: OLLIE EVANS & MARTA LOZANO MOLANO & MEGAN QUICK & ADAM GILBERT
Group 5: STEVEN FOWLER & THEODOROS CHATZIDIS & CLARE GHIGO
Group 6: BECKY CREMIN & MARK SIMPSON & GINA WALTER
Group 7: EDMUND HARDY & LOUIS CHIAPPETTA & OSKAR PALMBLAD
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 2012 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.
This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC. It is allowing us to: archive materials and make new work available from the last five years of the project; document the ongoing collaborative process as it thinks through the practice and languages of diverse and complex traditions of voice, music composition, and text; record new work as it happens; create a major resource in the field for free access; and generate new kinds of practice, exchange and debate which might find a home on the site.
Contact Carol Watts on c.watts@bbk.ac.uk for more information or check out our www.voiceworks.org.uk website.
Click here and here for more details
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 May 2012
Poetry & Revolution International Converence at the CPRC Birkbeck
The current crisis makes it possible to think what couldn’t be thought before, which has always been the task of poetry.
With its echoes of previous crises of modern society, it places on the agenda a reappraisal of revolutionary art from the point of view of the necessities of the present.
Keynote Speakers
Joan Retallack, poet, essayist, activist, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College, New York.
Jack Hirschman, poet, translator, essayist, activist, Poet Laureate of S. Francisco 2006, member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
Mark Nowak, poet, activist, Director of Graduate Writing Programme at Manhattanville College, NY.
Poetry Readings
Friday Night (25 May 2012), 7.30pm, X-ing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount pleasant WC1
Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis.
Saturday Night (26 May 2012), 8-10:30pm, Polyply, 16 Acton St. WC1
Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak.
VLAK: Special issue launch on Occupations one hour before Saturday night reading. (Times 7-8pm, tbc)
Papers: Approximately 45 papers on a wide range of issues over the Saturday and Sunday. Speakers from Portugal, Greece, the USA, Ireland, & the UK
Liaisons and co-operation with Occupied and Free Spaces
Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Sq. WC1
Contact: Stephen Mooney, estaphin@gmail.com
Supported by the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities
Click here for further details
all welcome.
Thursday 31 May 2012
Poetry reading by Julie Carr, Christine Wertheim & Matias Viegener
Room 415, Birkbeck main building on Torrington Square
7.30-9.00pm, all welcome.
Map available here
Wednesday 06 June 2012
Poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
7:30-9:00pm - all welcome
Click here for a map link
July 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/
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
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Becky Cremin & Alan Halsey @ XING the Line Veer Event
Upstairs at The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1X 0AE, 7:30-11:30pm
£5 waged, £3 unwaged
Becky will be reading from her new Veer book " LAY'D" and Alan will be launching his new Veer title " Even if only out of"
Saturday 25 February 2012
Second Conceptual Gesture: The Found
TONY LOPEZ – REDELL OLSEN – JOHN SEED
Keynes Library 4.30-7pm, all welcome
Free, Open to all. The reading forms part of the second 'Conceptual Gestures' event organised by Carol Watts and Edmund Hardy at Birkbeck's Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link
Friday 9 March 2012
A reading by and presentations on the work of JOHN JAMES
6-7.15pm Short talks by ROD MENGHAM – JOHN HALL – SIMON PERRIL
presentation of the Salt Companion to John James
7.30-8.30pm
Readings
SIMON PERRIL, JOHN JAMES reading from his new IN ROMSEY TOWN (Equipage) and CLOUD BREAKING SUN (Oystercatcher). Both available on the night.
Keynes Library, all welcome
43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD - Click here for a map link
Thursday 22 March 2012
CECILIA VICUÑA
Cecilia will show the film "kon kon pi" for the first time in London. This 13 minute film was exhibited at MoMA New York in 2011. Followed by a performance.
Room 153, Malet Street building,
Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury
, London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr) - Click here for a map link
7.30-9pm, all welcome
Jointly hosted by Birkbeck CPRC and CILAVS (Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies)
Thursday 29 March 2012
BROKEN AND REDUCED
"I lost my mother tongue more than thirty years ago and am still searching for it."
Hungarian visual poet MÁRTON KOPPÁNY talks about his work, and projects images. Introduced by Holly Pester.
Room B20, Birkbeck main building on Torrington Square
6.00-7.30pm, all welcome.
Map available here
