Trespass 4 comic book themed launch Zowie!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Tenderpixel Gallery
10 Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE
www.trespassmagazine.co.uk

Brilliant comic book themed fun at one of London’s chic-est new galleries (also one of its smallest!). Come and help us make a night of it–leave the alter-ego at home, take off the glasses, paint yourself green, fly, swim or hover…but come along and hear some great music (Phil Hawkins and WE YES YOU NO) & poetry.

The issue features:
Interview with Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie about their saucy and beautiful new book, Lost Girls
Tim Cumming reminisces about the tiny independent poetry magazines and their impact on the modern poetry scene
Sneak preview of Rick Veitch’s new Army @ Love series
Sexuality feature: ILYA talks about sexuality in Manga
A brand new comic created especially for Trespass by artist Anthony Hope-Smith and writer Anthony Howcroft
Personal Heroes: From Richard Dawkins to John Logi Baird the UK’s best sequential artists have remade their favourite writers, wrestlers and scientists into super heroes! Art by Andrew Waugh, Ben Tallon, Hannah Barton, Ian Flynn, Joshua Ranson, Liz Greenfield, Mallory Smith, Nick Angell, Nikhil Singh, Ottilia Aviram, Paul O’Connell, Peter Ankorn
Short Fiction: ‘Now that I have Fingers’ by Scott Morris, illustrated by Chris Roantree
Webtrawl: Matthew Plater’s website: www.map-map.co.uk
What we’re listening to: WE YES YOU NO
Film Review: Dan Lester
And poetry from Maggie Butt, Roddy Lumsden, Stephen McGowan, Rich Murphy, Naomi Woodis, Maureen Jivani, Ruth O’Callaghan, Maggie Butt, Fred Johnson,Alison Brackenbury, James MacKay, Aoife Mannix, Joe Dunthorne…

‘Voices of Experience’

7 Fest – celebrating 7 years of Flipped Eye

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
12:00pm - 11:00pm
Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
FREE

To mark our 7th anniversary we are putting on a marathon 11 hours of FREE readings, discussions and book signings at the Poetry Cafe. For 7 hours from 12 noon to 7pm, we will have the sofa sessions - small intimate readings in the basement of the Poetry Cafe, where the authors will sit in sofas reading to a small circle of listeners — then from 7pm we will have a series of full-fledged traditional, energetic flipped eye style readings with loud whoops and a full house. Please join us AND when you RSVP please list which bits you particularly want to come to. The general outline is as below:

12.00-12.40: NEW FICTION
Aoife Mannix reads from her forthcoming novel, Heritage of Secrets, and fiction editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, reads from Ainsley Burrows’ forthcoming novel, Land of our Birth.

13.00-13.40: REDIRECTION
Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Inua Ellams read from their forthcoming work and talk about the differences in the processes of drafting, compiling, editing as compared to their phenomenally successful first collections.

14.00-14.40: WRITING OBSESSIONS
Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Aoife Mannix and Malika Booker talk about what their current writing obsessions are embracing a gamut of objects, other books, poetic forms, prose arcs, new approaches to metaphor, and weird sleeping habits - all sorts of things that somehow relate to their writing.

15.00-15.40: QUESTION THE EDITORS
Niall O’Sullivan and Nii Ayikwei Parkes will talk about the experience of editing and in-house editing experiences, mainly by taking questions from the audience.

16.00 - BOOK SIGNING: Authors in attendance will include Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker and Niall O’Sullivan

17.30-18.25: FORTHCOMING POETRY
Jacob Sam-La Rose, Charlotte Ansell and Nick Makoha read exclusively from their forthcoming poetry books

19.00-19.50: NEW POETRY
Niall O’Sullivan, Malika Booker and Denise Saul read from their recently released collections - Ventriloquism for Monkeys, Breadfruit and White Narcissi respectively

20.00 - BOOK SIGNING: Authors in attendance will include Jacob Sam-La Rose, Charlotte Ansell, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul and Niki Aguirre

20.30-21.10: GENERATIONS
Our writers include characters with millions of airmiles and freedom passes in their pockets as well as fledglings with pocket change and airy dreams of flying: This session puts Agnes Meadows side-by-side with Inua Ellams to showcase the poetry of generations that span post-WW2 to post-II (Iraq Invasion) 2.

21.20-22.50: FICTION UNLEASHED
Aoife Mannix, Niki Aguirre, Roger Robinson and W. E. Essilfie - two published and two with forthcoming publications - read from their work. Roger’s Adventures in 3D is widely hailed as a classic, Niki’s 29 Ways to Drown has just been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize - come and hear the classics and see what’s new and upcoming…

WHILE THE EVENT IS FREE, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DONATE TOWARDS THE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS IN BURMA THROUGH DEC (http://www.dec.org.uk/) OR CHINA THROUGH THE RED CROSS (http://www.redcross.org.uk/donatesection.asp?id=77029)

Ssshh littlest birds is a secret.

APPLECART – Poets in a Pool

Over the next five weeks Apples and Snakes poets Aoife Mannix and Joseph Coelho will be creatively engaging in the rehearsal process of Oily Cart’s new show Pool Piece. This blog will be a record of their experiences over the rehearsal period - a place to share thoughts, reflections and of course poetry. After the rehearsal period both poets will spend four days devising and performing at Amwell School alongside the Oily team and six regional artists.  Please join us on this journey – www.applecart.wordpress.com