Novelists and translators on the translated books that have impressed them most… in the Guardian today

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As part of Late at Tate Britain: Sublimity curated by Kaparte Promotions exploring the continuing inspiration of Romanticism

Plectrum Live Edition presents
JOE BOYD, NIGEL WAYMOUTH, JILL KENNINGTON, DELISIA HOWARD
in conversation with
GUY SANGSTER ADAMS

Exploring the strands of romanticism running through fashion, music, art, and design, in 1960′s London, from the Kings Road to UFO, from Granny Takes a Trip to Biba, which equally influenced so much of what has followed, Guy Sangster Adams, editor of Plectrum – The Cultural Pick magazine, in conversation with Joe Boyd, music and film producer and co-founder of UFO, Nigel Waymouth, co-founder of Granny Takes a Trip and one half of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, Jill Kennington, iconic model – Vogue’s ‘face of 1963′ and ‘pure 1966′, and Delisia Howard, head of Biba cosmetics and household, Biba in-house model, from 1968 until the closing of Big Biba in 1975.

Friday 3rd December 2010
7pm – 8pm
Clore Auditorium
Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
(Nearest Underground stations: Pimlico – Victoria Line; Westminster – Jubilee, District and Circle Lines)

Tickets are Free

and will be available from the Clore Gallery reception in Tate Britain from 6pm on the evening of the event

for all international poetry lovers;

3am magazine & the Maintenant series presents: nýr skáldskapur

a Free Poetry Reading at the Rich mix centre

Icelandic & British poetry in collaboration
Saturday November 27th – 7pm

( 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London . E1 6LA)

Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Jóhanns

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl & Stewart Home

Scott Thurston & Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir

Jón Örn Loðmfjörð & Tom Jenks

A truly unique evening of poetry will see the culmination of a rare and powerful collaboration between four

of the most exciting new poetic talents emerging from the nation of Iceland

and four of the UK’s most lauded and iconoclastic writers. The event will present some of the most intricate

and daring sound / sculptural / visual and free verse poetry in Europe, the fruit of a project instigated

by the 3am magazine Maintenant interview series.

email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for inquiries

inspired by our friends from Poland, who regularly organise peaceful public half-hour reading sessions, a sort of demonstration of what the power of rest, silence and literature can do (check out vid here), we are staging our own 30 minute silent reading session this Sunday21/11/10 at 12.00 noon in London’s Hyde Park

just bring yourself, a book and some warm clothes – where everyone usually shouts (Speaker’s Corner is famous for people orating), we will be quiet… and then go for a nice beer;-)

SPECIAL OFFER – those who will RSVP by emailing info@off-press.org will receive their choice of OFF_PRESS titles on the day FREE OF CHARGE!

we were hoping to have our latest collection of poems, ANTHOLOGIA # 2, back from the printers for the event, but it hasn’t happened…

Still, this is what the book will look like in a few weeks’ time!

off_marek

link to YouTube follows when you click the image…

12 – 21 November 2010

Photography exhibition open to all! This year Homeless Gallery will be held at the unique exhibition space at Dilston Grove. For ten days in November Dilston Grove will become a temporary home for Homeless Gallery’s second edition. Organised by Deconstruction Project with the support of Polish Cultural Institute in London. The idea for Homeless Gallery was born in the minds of two well-acclaimed Polish photographers – Tomek Sikora and Andrzej Swietlik. Homeless Gallery is a celebration of photography in its many forms, appears fleetingly wherever and whenever there is a need amongst photographers from various backgrounds to exhibit their works to a larger audience. Homeless – because it has no permanent address, it appears for a short while, after which it disappears, only to reappear again in a completely different place. It appears wherever a place becomes available to give photography a home…

for more info click on the logo below

These workshops are open to Actors, Dancers, Performers and Individuals interested in expanding their practical understanding of various approaches to physical theatre training. The aim is to enrich skills, working with movement, voice and imagination.

Grotowski&Chekhov: 29th Nov – 1st Dec / 10-5pm

Krystian Godlewski, Artistic Director of the Bones Theatre leads this physical workshop over three days. He will be drawing from J.Grotowski and M.Chekhov, Butoh and Dance Training to explore a body based approach working with movement and voice. Participants will work on the “Lover” by Harold Pinter.

Laban: 2nd and 3rd Dec / 10-5pm

A creative workshop investigating the Art of Movement based on R.Laban’s holistic and universal approach. During the 2 days Dagmara Bilon will engage participants in movement improvisation; diving into the world of movement, exploring the body as an instrument of expression and a reciever of impulses. Looking at inner experience in relation to space, form and dynamics.

Places are limited, please book your place in advanced

more info e-mail: thebonestheatre@gmail.com

GROTOWSKI/CHEKHOV (3days): £60/£70

LABAN (2days): £40/£50

5 DAYS INTENSIVE: £90/£100

(early birds 10% discount – till 14th Nov)

Details of Venue:

FHSpace www.fhspace.co.uk

9 Havelock Walk, Forest Hill, London SE23 3HG

An interview with Ragnhildur Jóhanns by SJ Fowler

Celebrating the third Maintenant reading of 2010 SJ Fowler introduces Ragnhildur Jóhanns, one of four innovative Icelandic poets to read at the Rich Mix arts centre in London on November 27th, and one of the most exciting and elastic poetic talents to emerge in Europe over the last few years.

read more on 3:AM by clicking on the image below…

“17″ to powieść egzystencjalno-surrealistyczna, której akcja toczy się pomiędzy mózgiem i sercem połączonych linią londyńskiego metra. Jej bohaterowie – lustrzane odbicia “szczytu cywilizacji” błądzą po stolicy Królestwa – Londynie w poszukiwaniu “siebie”, “sensu”, “powodu” i tak dalej… Odkrywają wiele prawd w kłamstwie i kłamstw w prawdzie podczas zapadania się w kolejne tunele labiryntu. Droga nie ma końca, a koniec nie ma drogi, a ich sen dotyka także twojego snu w wyśnionej rzeczywistości nas wszystkich.

Marcin Piniak – był, zwiedzał i napisał swoją pierwszą powieść “17″ w ciągu dwóch lat podczas jazdy londyńskim metrem określając ją mianem “Laxigen literatury”.*

*Laxigen zwiększa perystaltykę jelita grubego. Efekt działania preparatu następuje po 8 godzinach od momentu zażycia.

Hundreds of thousands of aspiring novelists around the world will put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard – tomorrow with the intention of turning out a 50,000-word book in only 30 days.

They will be taking part in National Novel Writing Month, the first of which was held 11 years ago when 21 friends in America decided they had to take drastic action if they were ever to achieve their literary ambitions. Now up to 200,000 books are expected to be uploaded on the writing month website (NaNoWriMo) by the end of November.

read more in the Independent today by clicking image below…