La Langoustine est morte....

..Saturday February 7 2009......

The Poetry Café....

....22 Betterton Street........

....London.... WC2H 9BX....

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The Langoustine est morte reading series returns for the first event of the new year, and it is a special one.....

We could think of no better way to bring in the new year than with an event that looks to the future: tonight we have a selection of young poets, all pre-teen, who will be reading original works of poetry and stories.....

There will be an open mike for any kids who feel compelled to read on the night.....

.. So if there are any parents whose kids would like to read please get in touch with lalangoustine@gmail.com..

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This is a one of a kind event and will no doubt be packed, so arrive early.....

La Langoustine est morte

Saturday 5^th April 2008

The Poetry Café

22 Betterton Street

London

WC2H 9BX

7.30pm -10.00pm

£5/4 conc.

With Chris McCabe, Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, Tom Chivers & Georgina Banfield.

Hosted by Anthony Joseph.

The acclaimed Langoustine est morte reading series continues this April with another night of eclectic literature from 5 innovative poets. This month’s readers are Chris McCabe, author of The Hutton Enquiry (Salt), poet and academic Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, poet/poetry activist Tom Chivers and the emerging voice of Georgina Banfield. Please see the reader bios below.

La Langoustine est Morte was established in July 2006 by poets Anthony Joseph & Sascha Akhtar as a series of evenings celebrating experimentation and innovation in poetics and fiction. For further info and to possibly be part of La Langoustine contact:

lalangoustine@gmail.com

www.myspace.com/langoustine

READER BIOS

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review; Shearsman, Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, in 2005. This includes a sequence of poems that chronicle the circumstances surrounding the death of government science adviser Dr David Kelly in 2003 and Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq. He has read his work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry and in the Crossing the Line Series at the Poetry Cafe. He also discussed and read some of his poetry on BBC World Service on Armistice Day 2005 and featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. In 2008 a pamphlet called The Borrowed Notebook will be published by Landfill and a book called Zeppelins by Salt. He currently works as the Joint Librarian of the Poetry Library, London.

Siddhartha Bose grew up in Bombay and Calcutta, followed by a seven year itch in the USA. He has trained as an actor, made short films, and is presently completing his first collection. His poetry has been published in The Wolf (2007, UK) and is forthcoming in Fulcrum (2008, USA) and Alhamra Literary Review (2008, Pakistan). He lives in London, where he has been a featured reader/performer at spoken word events like New Blood and The Shuffle. He also teaches poetry part-time, while undertaking

doctoral research in literature at the University of London.

Tom Chivers is a writer, editor and promoter of poetry. Born in 1983 and raised in South London, he now lives in the East End where he runs live literature agency and events producer Penned in the Margins. Tom has been writing and performing for eight years. His poems have appeared in various magazines including Isis, X Magazine, The Libertine, Nthposition, Smoke, Stride, Fire and Dreams That Money Can Buy, and in the anthologies Babylon Burning: 9/11 Nine Years On and Automatic Lighthouse. His poems have also been translated into Serbian. Tom is Associate Editor of literary journal Tears in the Fence and has presented a weekly poetry show on Resonance FM. His first collection, provisionally titled London Pride, Mother’s Ruin, is forthcoming in 2008.

Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He was awarded the Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he also teaches poetry. He co-edits an arts council funded anthology of emerging poets called ’Stop Sharpening Your Knives’. He lives in Hackney.

Georgina Banfield is a poetry enthusiast from South London.  Apart from reading in London venues, she has featured in poetry nights and festivals in Bristol, Scotland and Ireland. Her poetry has been published in zines and journals. She writes about the mundane, the city environment and about life, love and circumstance as well as aspects of her African/ Indian/Caribbean heritage that can at times juxtapose her traditional British-Catholic upbringing...she is a developing writer in the process of putting her own first collection together.

La Langoustine est morte

Feb 2008

La Langoustine est morte

Saturday 2^nd February 2008

The Poetry Café

22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX

 7.30pm

adm. £5/4

The now renowned 'La langoustine est morte' reading series launches its 2008 season with a landmark event featuring 5 innovative writers/poets & spoken word artists.

Joining us are poets Jo Colley and Vincent De Souza both recently published by Salt, the pioneering poet and text artist Frances Presley, facilitator of the Islington Poetry Workshop, poet and performance artist Zoe Skoulding joining us from Wales and the critically acclaimed novelist Monique Roffey. See full authors' bios below.

The event is hosted by Anthony Joseph and Sascha Akhtar.

Get there early to reserve a seat.

Reader Bios:

Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset.  She now lives and works in London. Publications of poems and prose include The Sex of Art (North and South, 1988), Hula Hoop (Other Press, 1993), and Linocut (Oasis, 1997).  She has collaborated with the artist Irma Irsara on a multi media performance about clothing and the fashion trade, Automatic Cross Stitch (Other Press, 2000); and with the poet Elizabeth James on an email text and performance, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999).  Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 (Salt,   2004), begins with a response to 9/11/2001, and the IRA bombings in London.  Myne: new and selected poems and prose, 1976-2006, (Shearsman, 2006) includes sequences written in Somerset, of which the most recent is  'Stone settings', an approach to the Neolithic stone sites on Exmoor, and part of a collaboration with the poet Tilla Brading.  Presley has also written various reviews and essays, and has been on the editorial board of the experimental poetry journal How2 since 1997.   

Monique Roffey is a novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, sun dog (2002), received widespread favourable reviews: 'It's rare to read a novel with such heart' - The Guardian;  'full of sensuality… a delightfully unusual debut' - The Times. It was also published in hardback and paperback in the U.S. under the title August Frost (2003). Her short stories have appeared in New Writing 13 (2005), Matter Magazine, (2004) and others. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Monique now lives in north west London. She is currently working on her second novel, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, a love story set in Trinidad. Monique worked as a journalist for several years as well as for Amnesty International. From 2002–06 she worked as a Centre Director for The Arvon Foundation. She teaches creative writing and contributed to the Creative Writing Course CD at the Open University. She is completing a doctorate.

Zoë Skoulding's second collection of poems Remains of a Future City is published by Seren in July 2008. She holds an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at Bangor University, where she is researching poetry and city space. She founded the literary magazine Skald in 1994 and co-edited it until becoming editor of Poetry Wales in 2008. She is a member of Parking Non-Stop, whose album Species Corridor will be released by Klangbad in spring 2008.

Jo Colley has compensated for a rootless childhood by living in the north east of England for the last thirty years. A prose writer and poet, she has read her work and spoken word performance pieces in the north east, Liverpool, London and Finland. She has been published by Vane Women, Sand and Ek Zuban, and she has been translated into Finnish. In 2007, she received a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North. Her latest collection, Weeping for the Lovely Phantoms, was published by Salt in November 2007. http://www.jocolley.co.uk

Vincent De Souza studied English and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and worked for several years as an advertising copywriter. His interest in motorcycles lead him on a number of road journeys, culminating in a ten country tour starting in Norway and leading into southern Europe. His work has been widely published in the UK poetry press and he has won 8 awards, 2 in high profile poetry competitions.

www.myspace.com/langoustine

www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk

www.myspace.com/saschaakhtar

for more info lalangoustine@gmail.com

LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTE

S02E01 - The Second Season

Sat 3rd November 2007

7:30

 Poetry Cafe

22 Betterton Street

WC2H 9BX

£4 conc/£5

We are very pleased to welcome you to the return of the lobster.

The second season of the landmark Langoustine est morte series begins on November 3^rd with another thrilling line up of experimentation and innovation in literature and performance. This special event features readings/performances by the playwright Chris Goode, Artistic Director of Camden People's Theatre, music from Poetry Electro – The Ex Men, Inua Ellams – spoken word sorcerer and Sascha Akhtar, co-producer of La Langoustine reading from her new book The Grimoire of Grimalkin, published by Salt Publishing in November.

As always, the event is hosted by Sascha and the poet/musician Anthony Joseph. Make sure to arrive early as seating is limited and this event always sells out. 

READER BIOS

TIM ATKINS is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University Of East London, and editor of the online poetry magazine onedit (onedit.net). He is the author of Folklore (Heart Hammer 1995) To Repel Ghosts (Like Books 1998) Sonnets (The Figures 2000) Oriental Tapping (Koto 2002), and Horace (O Books 2007) A book of Catalan Concrete Poetry is also forthcoming. Readings can be heard online at The Archive Of The Now at:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~enstaab2/

GÉRARD RUDOLF - Born in South Africa, he grew up in the cultural car crash zones of Cape Town and Joburg. For the past 15 years he worked as actor, script writer and director in the film and theatre industries. He was a founding member of Makeshift Moon Theatre Company, a surreal artists' collective called Vache Noir and the absurdist writers group Avantgardenparty.  He says he writes as a means to orientate himself on the map.

He is currently working on a soon to be published poetry and short prose collection tentatively titled Godspeed the Punch Line.

La Langoustine est morte, the 7^th

Saturday 5 May 2007

7.30pm

The Poetry Café

22 Betterton St.

Covent Garden

London WC2H 9BX

Adm. £5/4 cons.

La langoustine est morte, The only night in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 7^th instalment of the series. This month we feature one of our strongest line-ups yet, a thrilling fusion of abstract poetics, risqué fictions, spiritual songs and ambient mischief with:

Amy Prior – fiction/performance

Steve Willey - poetry

Perciphone Petticoat – poetry/performance

Musadiq Sanwal - spirit songs

Hosted by Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph

Please see the reader bios below

These events are usually sold out so arrive early to book a seat!

For more info:

www.myspace.com/langoustine

Email: lalangoustine@gmail.com

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Reader bios :

STEVE WILLEY

Steve Willey is a London poet, studying for an MA in Poetic Practice. He is co-founder of the poetry reading series Openned and co-runs the Openned Press . He has self-published two books, 'Midnight: Shrapnel: Debris:' and 'Waves: histories of the Kusk' . His work often dwells on the fractured intersections between history, space, and event and has more recently developed an entirely unhealthy, yet entirely welcome, relationship to Walter Benjamin, and digital projectors. All of his poetry projects may be found on the Openned website http://www.openned.com

AMY PRIOR
Amy Prior is a London-based writer. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals and book collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Amy skirted the fringes of fanzine culture around the music scene, eventually editing and contributing writing to critically acclaimed short fiction anthologies for Serpent's Tail (UK/US) and Avalon (U.S.). In 2005, she toured the U.S. for her collection 'Lost On Purpose', an international collection of city stories. She was recently commissioned by Tate Modern for 'New Art, New Fiction', a project about fiction response to visual artworks - and her new fiction book 'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' (2007) is available from gallery bookstores in London and the U.S. Amy is the recipient of an individual writers award for her short fiction from the Arts Council of England (2005). www.myspace.com/amyprior

MUSADIQ SANWAL

Hailing from Multan, Musadiq Sanwal is a visual and theatre artist by training and profession but his real passion is music. Mostly self taught he has spent years collecting poetry and folk tunes across Punjab and Sindh, accumulating a wide repertoire. In the Eastern tradition of the subcontinent, poetry and music have been inextricably linked. The works of Sufi poets such as Guru Nanak, Baba Farid and Kabir both of the Punjab and other areas were often 'transmitted' via sadhus and fakirs. In this way, they were instruments of the mystical word. Musadiq is such a sadhu, not from pure the classical tradition of the courts but from the semi-classical tradition of Sufis and mandirs.He is also a co-founder of Matteela, a website for photography, music, film, art and literature based in Lahore and has worked on numerous films.

www.myspace.com/buraqtakenbutwhy  

PERCIPHONE PETTICOAT

Perciphone Petticoat aka Sazzarooo, poet, writer, singer songwriter and producer, is a fresh and entertaining face in the world of performance poetry. She has been writing and singing since early childhood and collaborates with other musicians to make ambient and peace enhancing sounds. From surreality to social dysfuntion - sexuality to empathy, fairytales to self harm, Perciphone Petticoat often flirts on a rather risque edge. However, pertinent subjects delivered graphically, are often skillfully tempered according to musicality and backing sounds: allowing ideas that would otherwise be unpallatable - to be considered.
http://www.myspace.com/perciphone