I was pleased to see Holborn Police Station on Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 – the real-life base of my fictional London detective DS Rex King – looking fine in the wintry sun yesterday!
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Join us at the Brixton Brewery this week for a Brixton Book Jam special as part of the Brixton Brewery’s LiBARary pop-up – a mini book festival in partnership with Lambeth Libraries and others!
Here’s the blurb:
Join us at the Tap Room for an evening filled with literary delights. We’ll be joined by Zelda Rhiando, Tony White and Andrew Grumbridge and Vincent Raison of ‘Deserter’. Sit back, relax, and listen to talented authors as they read excerpts from their latest works. Then get the chance to ask your burning questions during the Author Q&A session.
LIBARARY CALENDAR:
- Wednesday 20th November: Cosy Reading Club in partnership with It’s Hardback Out Here
- Thursday 21st November: Brixton BookJam: Live Readings & Author Q&A
- Saturday 23rd November: Pints, Poems & Prose Literature Afternoon in partnership with It’s Hardback Out Here
- Sunday 24th November: Dedicated Reading Afternoon at the Taproom
The LiBARary is free to attend but some of the above events require a ticket, follow the links above to reserve your spot!
Do come along if you can!
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‘Strength, love, art, politics – 40 Years of Forced Entertainment’ was quite a night: a warm and moving fortieth-anniversary tribute to this preeminent experimental theatre company. I thought readers might like to see this small piece of ephemera, circulated by Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells just prior to the event, which took place online on Sunday 10th November 2024: a final running order.
I was honoured and delighted to contribute to this celebration of the life and work of some very old friends of mine. I’ll tidy up my contribution then share it here in due course. I also contributed to FE RECALL, a series of personal reflections on the anniversary of the company ICYMI.
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I’m looking forward to returning to Brixton on Thursday 21st November for live readings and Q&A as part of the Brixton Brewery LiBARary Pop-up at the Brixton TAPROOM – Arch 548 Brixton Station Road, London, SW9 8PF.
Join us for live readings and Q&A with me (I’ll be reading from The Fountain in the Forest); Andrew Grumbridge and Vincent Raison of ‘Deserter’, reading from Shirk, Rest and Play: The Ultimate Slacker’s Bible; Zelda Rhiando reading from her latest novel, Night Shift – Hosted by Brixton BookJam in association with Brixton Brewery and Lambeth Libraries: FREE BUT BOOKING REQUIRED
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Brixton Book Jam is back, in a new venue! Feed your brain with this congenial, intelligent, unpredictable event for readers and writers, featuring Tony White, Daniel Tizon, Johnny B, Amelia Kyazze, Fran Lock, Caspar Addyman, Dave McGowan, and Zelda Rhiando.
New venue: OFF THE CUFF, Arch 645, Railton Road, London, SE24 0JN (right next to Herne Hill station) — FREE!
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SOIL by Katharine Meynell was launched at Matt’s Gallery, London, yesterday (Friday 20 September), with a superb performance and reading (from the book) by Meynell from beneath a thick and very heavy blanket of soil and turf. Thank you to all involved, and to everyone for coming along.
This is a photo I took during the performance. That’s Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery standing at the left of the picture. Up to half the print run of SOIL was given away following the performance.
Here’s the press release:
A note on pronunciation: Meynell rhymes with Fennel.
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Piece of Paper Press Publication Launch
Katharine Meynell, SOIL (POPP.044)
20 September 2024, 6-8pm
Etc. Space at Matt’s Gallery
Join us at Matt’s Gallery, London, for the launch of SOIL by Katharine Meynell, a publication released in a numbered limited edition of 150 copies by Piece of Paper Press. Up to half of the print run will be given away free during the evening. Strictly one copy per person, while stocks last.
UPDATE: These are just back from the printers BTW and they look GREAT… Behind the scenes news: Katharine and I are going to get a bit of a production line going later today to make up the finished books ready for numbering… I’ll take some photos. Don’t forget to come along to Matt’s next Friday if you’d like to get your hands on a copy!
SOIL is a text work distilled from images, events and performances created during a residency at Live Art Ireland, Tipperary in 2023 – a period of time that Meynell dedicated to thinking and reading about and working with soil. A video work of the same name was recently screened on MattFlix. The text reproduced in SOIL was first performed at Live Art Ireland, and documented in the video; part love poem, part spell, and threaded through with acrostics and word games, this edition strips away that larger work to reveal a joyful and productive residue, rich in life, ‘where matter meets in past and future…composing becoming’.
The hand-made and ephemeral character of the Piece of Paper Press format addresses itself to the way that Meynell ‘domesticates the tools of her trade… It becomes simply that medium which is at hand when a certain moment occurs or a certain event takes place.’ (Andrea Phillips, Lux Online)
Free, no booking required.
Find out more on the Matt’s Gallery site…
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