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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Details of Readings this Autumn

I thought I had four readings between now and the end of the year, but it’s actually five. I’m going to add details as they come in, or as they are confirmed. They are all quite different, with different work read, often from different books, or no books!

Liverpool 24^th October 2024: for Liverpool Poetry Space hosted by The Open Eye Gallery (on the dockside): L3 1BP: 6.00-8.00, FREE/drop in

I will be launching British Standards and I will be waving copies of The Necessity of Poetics because it contains an essay about photography and poetry written for the Open Eye itself.

I will be reading with Maria Isakova-Bennett, Mandy Coe and Eleanor Rees.

Details of books: Pages: British Standards and The Necessity of Poetics published simultaneously (robertsheppard.blogspot.com)

The next night: London: Friday, 25^th October 2024 (7:00 for 7:30pm start)

The Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Rd, London NW1 1HB

Free Entry. All Welcome.

Adrian Clarke, Walhalla (Veer)

Bob Cobbing, the five vowels & Third ACB in Sound (Veer/Writers Forum)

Bob Cobbing/Robert Sheppard, Collaborations (Veer/Writers Forum): performed by RS and Patricia Farrell.

Ulli Freer, Transition Pulse (Veer)

Karen MacCormack, Quaquaversal (Veer)

Steve McCaffery, Alice through the Working Class (Blazevox) (What a great title!)

Although my Collaborations with Bob Cobbing was published by Veer in 2021, there wasn’t a launch of this splendid box of pamphlets, reprints of Odes and Diodes and Blatent Blather/Virulent Whoops from 1991 and 2001. On the box: Pages: COLLABORATIONS (Bob Cobbing - Robert Sheppard) published in a box by Veer - out now.

Wednesday November 6^th: 7.30. An ONLINE reading from Aquifer Books. FREE.

I will find something that works in excerpt from my finely-designed Aquifer volume, Doubly Stolen Fire. Other readers may include Allen Fisher, Sarah Crewe, Mélisande Fitzsimons.

Details of book: Pages: Reviews of my book DOUBLY STOLEN FIRE (robertsheppard.blogspot.com)

Linking details soon!

London 12th November 2024: 7.30: A Shearsman launch of new Shearsman books.

This reading will take place at the Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. (See map here.) Admission is free. Hosted by Tony Frazer, publisher of Shearsman Books.

I will read from British Standards and point to The Necessity of Poetics AND to my edition of the Selected Poems of Mary Robinson.

As a bridge between the two poetry books, I will be reading my ‘transpositions’ of Robinson’s sonnets ‘Tabitha and Thunderer’, a section of British Standards.

I will be reading with Elaine Randell, which is very exciting.

Details of all three books: Pages: British Standards published by Shearsman - out now (robertsheppard.blogspot.com) and Pages: Selecting for a Selected: The Poems of Mary Robinson 1 (robertsheppard.blogspot.com).

Liverpool 16^th November, The Bluecoat 7.00-11.00 (bar open 6.30-11.00): I will be reading (briefly) at a gig at The Bluecoat in memory of the turntablist and composer Philip Jeck (as will Patricia Farrell). The rest of the evening will be music and film: full details Here: Bluecoat | From the Grooves of Vinyl: A Tribute to Philip Jeck (thebluecoat.org.uk)

Me on Phil: Pages: Philip Jeck 2022 (robertsheppard.blogspot.com).