LEICESTER: Hearing Voices launch

Monday, 10th January 2011, 6.30pm-9.30pm, FREE
The Western Pub,
Western Road,
Leicester,
LE3 0GA

Free and open to all! The event will include readings from contributors to the magazine Hearing Voices, guests and open mic slots. You can sign up to read on arrival.

LEICESTER: New Walk launch reading

Thursday, 11th November, 2010, 6pm, FREE
New Lecture Theatre (Fielding Johnson South Wing)
University of Leicester

Free launch event for New Walk magazine, with readings from Alice Oswald, Grevel Lindop and Matt Merritt.

More details at http://www.wix.com/newwalkmagazine/new-walk-magazine

LEICESTER: New Walk launch reading

Thursday, 11th November, 2010, 6pm, FREE
New Lecture Theatre (Fielding Johnson South Wing)
University of Leicester

Free launch event for New Walk magazine, with readings from Alice Oswald, Grevel Lindop and Matt Merritt.

More details at http://www.wix.com/newwalkmagazine/new-walk-magazine

GALWAY: Crannog Hits 25

Friday, 22nd October, 2010, 6.30pm
The Crane Bar,
Galway

Galway literary magazine Crannóg will celebrate its 25th issue with a special evening of readings and music. There will also be a full bar and finger food courtesy of The Gourmet Tart Co and The Crane.

Crannóg, which has been published since the year 2002 has published the work of over 1000 writers. Its dedicated editorial team: Sandra Bunting, Gerardine Burke, Jarlath Fahy and Tony O’Dwyer, edit, produce and design the magazine which is published three times a year (February, June, October).

The journal came out of the renowned Galway Writers’ Workshop from which many leading Irish poets have emerged.

Crannóg is unique as it features work from writers not just locally and nationally but also internationally and has a very wide distribution, having readers and fans as far away as India, Australia and South America.

The 25th edition is a special, extended magazine featuring in the region of 50 writers. It will be launched by guest speaker Des Kenny upstairs in the Crane Bar and attendees on the evening will be in with a chance to win a 3yr subscription to the magazine. Animation Filmmaker Edith Peiperhoff will also talk about how Crannóg is important for artists/photographers/filmmakers, whose striking designs have been used on the covers of the magazine.

A display case containing past issues of the magazine has been placed in Galway City Library Augustine Street in advance of the launch. Earlier issues are now collectors’ items as it is difficult to get a complete set of all 25 issues.

There are also submission details published and available around the city’s bookshops and libraries for anyone who wishes to submit material for the next edition February 2011.

You are warmly invited to join Crannóg for their celebration, the evening is free and all are welcome.

http://www.crannogmagazine.com

Horizon Review & Poetry Reading, Soho this Wednesday 18th November

Ride the Word XVIII
on the road to
The Café Yumchaa
Free Admission

Cafe Yumchaa, 45 Berwick Street, Soho, London W.1
Wed 18th November 7.00 p.m.—9.15 p.m.

All Salt lineup
Elizabeth Baines reading from her new novel: Too Many Magpies
Jane Holland
Vincent De Souza
Jay Merill
and guests:

Horizon Review introduced by:
editor, Jane Holland, plus readers George Ttoouli and Sophie Mayer

also
Floor spots: Jan Woolf, Alan Franks,
Marc Compton, et al

Trespass Launch: "Americana"

8:30-10pm, August 26 2009
The Enterprise, 2 Haverstock Hill, Camden, London
NW3 2BL

Trespass Magazine celebrates the launch of the 'Americana' issue by travelling North to share the love in Leeds this month, and then caps off the festivities in London with gay cabaret, performance art, brilliant poetry, short fiction and...a Michael Jackson sing-along. Join us as our band This Is It II sing (for those of you who want to get a bit of practice, although we will provide the words) such hits as Beat It, Smooth Criminal, Billy Jean and more. It really doesn't get much better than this-it really is It.

Featuring: Music from Peter Scott-Presland doing cabaret and Romy Northover performing alongside her co-creator Kiera Fox as part of the performance art duo 'Constantinoplex'. Join us as the This Is It II band (for one night only!) will also be playing for our Michael Jackson Sing-along!

As well as this we have a vast array of literary talent including: John Stiles, Sabrina Mahfouz, Heather Taylor, Henrietta Cullinan, Stephanie Petrik, Agnes Meadows, Jacqui Saphra, Anna McKerrow and more!

LONDON: Poetry London Spring Launch 2009

Wednesday, 18th March, 2009, 6.30pm, FREE
Foyles,
Charing Cross Road,
London

POETRY LONDON Spring 2009 Launch Reading

Featuring Greg Delanty, Emma Jones, Jacob Polley, Eva Salzman

The Gallery, 3rd Floor, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Door open 6pm, readings 6.30pm
Disabled access

Poetry London

POETRY LONDON Spring 2009 launch reading

6.30pm, Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Foyles, The Gallery, 3rd Floor
113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Door open 6pm, readings 6.30pm
Disabled access
Free entrance, free wine

POETRY LONDON launch

Featuring Greg Delanty, Emma Jones, Jacob Polley, Eva Salzman.

Poetry London Spring Launch 2009

POETRY LONDON Spring 2009 Launch Reading

Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
Wednesday 18 March 6.30pm
Free entrance, free wine!

Featuring Greg Delanty, Emma Jones, Jacob Polley, Eva Salzman

The Gallery, 3rd Floor, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Door open 6pm, readings 6.30pm
Disabled access

Poetry London

Wolf Launch: Monday December 8th

THE WOLF: LAUNCH OF ISSUE 19 @ THE POETRY STUDIO, 22 BETTERTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN, WC2

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8TH
8.30PM START

FEATURING RUTH PADEL, CLARE POLLARD, MICHAEL McKIMM, -PLUS GUESTS-
HOSTED BY THE WOLF EDITOR, JAMES BYRNE
IN THESE CREDIT-CRUNCHING TIMES THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT SPACE IS LIMITED AND EARLY ARRIVAL IS ADVISED!

The Wolf

WARWICK: Shindig!

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008, from 7.30pm
Kozi Bar,
Market Place,
Warwick
Come celebrate the launch of our first issue of Under the Radar and the founding of Nine Arches Press, with a heady brew of poets, wine and song.

Special guest poets:
Jane Holland - Warwick's very own poet laureate.
Simon Turner - Leamington based new modernist poet.
Matt Nunn - Birmingham's finest poetic export.

Join us for the first ever Shindig! event in Warwickshire - a new kind of poetry event, a veritable feast of music and the spoken word.

http://ninearchespress.com/events.html

LONDON: Magma 41 launch reading

Monday, June 23rd, 2008, 8-10pm, tickets £6 concessions £5.
The Troubadour,
265 Old Brompton Road,
London,
SW5
Nearest tube station: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly Lines).

Magma 41— poetry magazine launch with special guests John Hegley and Carol Rumens.
Since its first stapled-A5 appearance and its early Troubadour gatherings in the 1990s, Magma, now in its 41st re-incarnation—edited by Karen Green and Linda Black—continues to grow in stature and significance just as its launches have flourished as the vital, seasonal gathering-place for poetry fans and poets. Meet the editors and production team, pick up the latest poetry-packed edition and listen to poets and poems from the current issue, plus special contributions from guest poets John Hegley and poet, playwright, novelist, editor/anthologist and Russian-translator Carol Rumens.

For information, advance booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries, phone 020 8354 0660.

LONDON: Magma 41 Launch Reading

Monday, June 23rd, 2008, 8-10pm, tickets £6 concessions £5.
The Troubadour,
265 Old Brompton Road,
London,
SW5
Nearest tube station: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly Lines).

Magma 41— poetry magazine launch with special guests John Hegley and Carol Rumens.
Since its first stapled-A5 appearance and its early Troubadour gatherings in the 1990s, Magma, now in its 41st re-incarnation—edited by Karen Green and Linda Black—continues to grow in stature and significance just as its launches have flourished as the vital, seasonal gathering-place for poetry fans and poets. Meet the editors and production team, pick up the latest poetry-packed edition and listen to poets and poems from the current issue, plus special contributions from guest poets John Hegley and poet, playwright, novelist, editor/anthologist and Russian-translator Carol Rumens.

For information, advance booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries, phone 020 8354 0660.

LONDON: Poetry London launch

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, 6.30pm, FREE
Foyles
113-119 Charing Cross Road,
London,
WC2

An evening of readings to launch the magazine's summer issue. To reserve a place, e-mail:
events@foyles.co.uk

Magma Poetry Magazine Launch this Monday, 3rd March

Monday, March 3rd
8pm
The Troubadour
265 Old Brompton Road
London SW5 (nearest tube Earls Court)
£6/£5

Magma 4 poetry magazine launch

Magma launch nights - for those few who haven't experienced them - offer a collage, a cornucopia, a compendium of all that is urban, edgy, eclectic and imminent in metropolitan poetic practice - a chance to listen to editor Roddy Lumsden's choice of contributors, to catch the journal itself hot off the Magma presses, hear about upcoming issues/themes...and enjoy special contributions from guest poets Martina Evans - her third collection, apart from 3 novels including Betty-Trask-winner Midnight Feast, is Can Dentists be Trusted? (Anvil) - and former-Forward nominee and essential urban poet Matthew Caley, latest collection The Scene of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball).

For information, advanced booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries, phone 020 8354 0660 or email: CoffPoetry@aol.com

Shearsman Poetry: Wednesday 17th October

Shearsman Reading Series

Wednesday 17th October
7.30pm

The seventh in the Shearsman Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 17 October at 7:30 pm, featuring ERIN MOURE, Canadian poet and translator, whose translation of Chus Pato's Charenton will be launched at the event. Erín will also read from her latest Canadian collection O Cadoiro (House of Anansi, Toronto, 2007). We will also be launching the new issue of Shearsman magazine, no. 73/74, on the night, and three of the poets from the issue will give short readings: Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter and Rachel Lehrman.

The venue is
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission free, but we will pass the metaphorical hat for contributions. The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required. Further details here of the venue:
www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html

Ambit and Poetry London launching Autumn issues TONIGHT in London!

Launch of Ambit 190 with Open Mic

The Bath House, 96 Dean Street, Soho, London W1T 3TD
Wednesday 17 October 2007
6.30pm

October's Ambit reading also doubles as the launch of issue 190, a special American issue which Dr. Martin Bax will launch simultaneously on the other side of the Atlantic.
£5 / £4 concessions.

Featured readers:

Martin Cooper was commissioned a long time ago to produce news items for The Two Ronnies. He still holds the record for the smallest royalty ever paid to a BBC writer (9p, shared with a colleague). Nowadays he lives and works in Dorset.

Donald Gardner lives in Amsterdam and is a well-known reader of his poetry. His latest collection is The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye, 2006) and his previous collection is How To Get the Most Out Of Your Jetlag (Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 2001).

Matthew Licht's series of stories The Moose Show, is published by Salt and was nominated for this year's Frank O'Connor Prize. His latest short film, Odessa Tarzan, is scheduled to have its London premiere sometime soon, at an undisclosed location.

Readers from the floor welcome (one page max).
www.ambitmagazine.co.uk

PLUS

Poetry London Autumn issue launch

Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Wednesday 17th October
6.30pm

Readings to launch the Autumn issue of Poetry London, featuring Philip Gross, Jean Sprackland and Jo Shapcott.

Plus prize-giving, and readings from competition prizewinners Christine Webb (first prize winner), Mick Wood, Caroline Bird, Emily Berry, Matthew Caley, Christina Dunhill and Linda Chase.

Free entry, free wine.
www.poetrylondon.co.uk
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Poetry London Autumn Issue Launch in London: Wednesday 17th October

Poetry London Autumn Launch

Wednesday October 17th
6.30pm
The Gallery, 2nd Floor, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road
London WC2
(disabled access)
Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road

Launch of the Autumn 2007 issue of the Poetry London magazine. Readers include: Philip Gross, Jean Sprackland, Jo Shapcott, and Christine Webb (First Prize Winner in their 2007 Competition), plus Mick Wood, Caroline Bird, Emily Berry, Matthew Caley, Christina Dunhill and Linda Chase.

Doors 6pm, readings 6.30pm

Free entrance, free wine

Shearsman Poetry Readings: Wednesday 17th October

Shearsman Reading Series

Wednesday 17th October
7.30pm
The seventh in the Shearsman Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 17 October at 7:30 pm, featuring ERIN MOURE, Canadian poet and translator, whose translation of Chus Pato's Charenton will be launched at the event. Erín will also read from her latest Canadian collection O Cadoiro (House of Anansi, Toronto, 2007).

We will also be launching the new issue of Shearsman magazine, no. 73/74, on the night, and three of the poets from the issue will give short readings: Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter and Rachel Lehrman.

The venue is
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission free, but we will pass the metaphorical hat for contributions.

The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.

Further details here of the venue:
www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html

here of Chus Pato's Shearsman title, Charenton:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2007/pato.html

& here of the new Shearsman magazine issue
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2007/sh73_74.html


The final reading in this year's series will be on Tuesday 20 November, but the readers are still to be confirmed.

Seam Magazine Launch, Monday 10th September, with poetry readings galore!

You are warmly invited to the launch of Seam 27
on Monday 10 September

Guest:
Sheenagh Pugh

with contributions from
Gill Andrews
Mike Barlow
Pat Borthwick
Ken Champion
John Clegg
Chrissie Gittins
Rebecca Goss
Jane Holland
Allison McVety
Caroline Natzler
Katy Price
Sue Rose
Julian Stannard
Todd Swift
Kearan Williams

Monday 10 September
6.30 pm prompt
The Gallery
Foyles Bookshop
Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0EB
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square

Entry is free, but please contact seam.magazine@googlemail.com to let us know how many are coming.

Please check the Seam website for updates
www.seampoetry.co.uk