Free Verse

Time: 10:00 - 17:00 24 September 2011 Location:Exmouth Market Centre, 24 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE. Created by:Andy Ching, Chrissy Williams, Charles Boyle More info: Anvil, Arc, Carcanet, CB editions, Donut Press, Egg Box, Enitharmon, flipped eye, HappenStance, if p then q, Nine Arches, Penned in the Margins, Rack Press, Reality Street, Salt, Shearsman, Shoestring, Sidekick, Ward Wood, Waterloo, Waywiser, zimZalla. Plus the Poetry Book Society. Free entry. Readings though the day. Michael Horovitz to open. Programme on the door with work by Simon Armitage, Heathcote Williams, Posy Simmonds.... A day when you can shrug off the Arts Council cuts and the Poetry Society fiasco and everything else that’s a distraction from the main thing, and celebrate the variety and vitality of contemporary poetry, is this day: 24 September, Exmouth Market. Browse, read, chat and (please) buy. Come. Free readings throughout the day: 10.30-11 Ward Wood Sue Guiney and Peter Phillips 11-11.45 Michael Horovitz 12-12.30 Happenstance Press Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving, Lorna Dowell, Peter Daniels, Clare Best and D A Prince 12.30-1 Nine Arches Press Ruth Larbey and Matt Merritt 1-1.30 Reality Street Jim Goar and James Davies 1.30-2 Rack Press Roisin Tierney, Nicholas Murray and Katy Evans-Bush 2-2.30 CB Editions Christopher Reid and Nancy Gafford 2.30-3 Carcanet Will Eaves and Ian Pindar 3-3.30 ifpthenq Lucy Harvest Clarke and Tom Jenks 3.30-4 Flipped Eye Max Wallis and Kate McLoughlin 4-4.30 Penned in the Margins Gemma Seltzer and Siddhartha Bose 4.30-5 Waterloo Press Jeremy Reed, Niall McDevitt and Philip Ruthen