Events

Poetry Recitals

Tuesday 11th April 2017

St Michael's Church
Bugle Street, Southampton SO14 2AD
1.00pm
Free Admission

Tuesday 18th April 2017

Romsey Abbey
Church Lane, Romsey SO51 8EP
1.00pm
Free Admission

Andrew Jordan will be reading for 50 minutes

Field Trip/Book Launch

Saturday 6th June 2015

Southampton Bloc: Owen Hatherley leads a walk through St Mary's & Northam

Meet at 5.45pm in the Guildhall Square. The walk will arrive back at the city centre at about 8pm.

Owen's new book is: Landscapes of Communism, A History Through Buildings (Allen Lane, 4th June 2015, ISBN: 9781846147685)

Trotsky's Handjob: How October Books, the once and never again left wing bookshop, tried to conceal its communist past. (536kb PDF file)

Provocation & Predictability - an account of Southampton Bloc: violence (nearly), outrage (simmering) and resentment (palpable) - it was a hoot! (500kb PDF file)

Field Trip

Friday 5th September 2014

Owen Hatherley leads a walk through Southampton

Owen Hatherley reveals fragmants of utopia within apparently mundane buildings and housing estates in Southampton city centre. One lost city next to another, modernism and its transformative power overwritten by West Quay and the cult of individual consumerism.

Field Trip

Saturday 15th June 2013

A Re-enactment of Last Year's Field Trip to Portsdown Hill

We will walk in an unconvincing fashion to Fort Nelson where there will be a poetry recital in tunnels beneath the ground (it will be the same bits of Hegemonick as last time). We will then set off on foot towards the Churchillian public house (PO6 3LS). If the weather is fine we will linger at the Northern compound of the underground Oil Fuel Depot (SU623072) for a makeshift picnic. We will fail to capture the attitudes, behaviour and experiences of those who attended the field trip last November. We won’t look like them either. Having failed to embody the past we will proceed to the pub and pretend to socialise.

Meet at: Portchester Station at 11.23am. Those travelling by road should go to Fort Nelson (PO17 6AN), arriving at 12 noon. Fort Nelson is a Royal Armouries museum. There is free parking. (Portchester Station has no car park so don't go there.)

To download the newsletter associated with this event (The Listening Voice 11) click here. (264kb PDF file)

Poetry Recital

Saturday 18th May 2013

October Books, 243 Portswood Rd, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 2NG
6.30pm
Free Admission

Andrew Jordan will be reading poems from Hegemonick.

Field Trip

Saturday 24th November 2012

We will go to Portsdown Hill (Hants) to explore how we have internalised the reshaping of geographical features by various forces (political, industrial, military, etc.) and then we will project those features back into the material world to reveal the wider social and economic conflicts they had masked.

Meet at: Portchester Station at 11.23am. Those travelling by road should go to Fort Nelson (PO17 6AN), arriving at 12 noon. Fort Nelson is a Royal Armouries museum. There is free parking. (Portchester Station has no car park so don't go there.)

To download the newsletter associated with this event (The Listening Voice 10) click here. (348kb PDF file)

Hampshire Chronicle preview of the field trip (1.1mb PDF file)

Hampshire Chronicle review of the field trip by Emily Trig (1.1mb PDF file). The unedited text of Emily's review is here.

Poetry Recital

Wednesday 14th November 2012

Andrew Jordan, John Welch & Michael Zand

Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
7.30pm
Free Admission

This is a Shearsman Reading Series event. For further information see the Shearman Books web site.

The EPA & PFC

The Equi-Phallic Alliance and Poetry Field Club deliver propaganda and social activies in the realm of Poesy. The manifesto of the EPA commits them to achieving a free anal clitoris for everyone. The PFC organises field trips, mainly into the countryside around Southampton, Portsmouth and Winchester (UK) where we walk about a bit.

The field trips are advertised in The Listening Voice which is a four page newsletter that you can receive by post in the UK (send 6 UK second class stamps and your address to the address here). The newsletters sometimes don't come out very often.

Some events associated with Field Trips and The Listening Voice newsletter have taken place in Josian's Bower. So far these have been so poorly advertised as to be effectively by invitation only.

The Listening Voice newsletter

The Listening Voice 1 : 120kb PDF file : 1996

The Listening Voice 2 : 256kb PDF file : September 1996

The Listening Voice 3 : 248kb PDF file : October 1997

The Listening Voice 4 : 308kb PDF file : October 1999
St. Catherine’s Hill, Winchester

The Listening Voice 5 : 256kb PDF file : October 2000
Danebury Ring, Hampshire

The Listening Voice 6 : 300kb PDF file : July 2005
The Hampshire Bowman, Dundridge, Hampshire

The Listening Voice 7 : 880kb PDF file : January 2007
Ha Ha book launch at The Richmond Inn, Southampton

The Listening Voice 8 : 324kb PDF file : December 2007
Re-enacting Edward Young at Lower Upham, Hampshire

The Listening Voice 9 : 320kb PDF file : June 2009
Josian in Ermonie launch at The Richmond Inn, Southampton

The Listening Voice 10 : 348kb PDF file : November 2012
Portsdown Hill, Hampshire

The Listening Voice 11 : 264kb PDF file : June 2013
Portsdown Hill, Hampshire

Other downloads

Hampshire Chronicle preview of the field trip on 24 November 2012 (1.1mb PDF file). Published on 15th November 2012

Hampshire Chronicle review of the field trip on 24 November 2012 (1.1mb PDF file). The review is by Emily Trig and was published on 6th December 2012 (The unedited text of Emily's review is here.)