Wurm im Apfel Poetry: Autumn 2011

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Wurm im Apfel poetry events aim to present unusual, different and experimental poetry to a wide variety of Dublin audiences in an accessible and welcoming way. We're interested in the kinds of poetry sometimes described as: experimental, avant garde, sound, concrete, visual, performance, and in forging links with international poets and artists and other performance arts. The events have been held all over the city in the past, but this autumn we're mainly working with The Loft bookshop in Middle Abbey St. (above the Twisted Pepper).

At our website http://www.wurmimapfel.net/recordings you can listen to some of what we've done so far.  Look out for our  2009 Festival Wurmfest, which includes an performance by amazing Dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk, graceful witty words from American poet and anthologist Carrie Etter and punchy performances from Dave Lordan and Karl Parkinson.

Wurm Press publishes chapbooks [pamphlets] and full-length poetry
collections. Our mimeorevolution chapbook series aims for a lo-fi look with high quality words.  All our full-length collections are softbound with original cover art.

Wurm doesn't get funding from any official source, and depends a lot on good will (thank you all!) We've been going for nearly three years now, and have given a platform to some of the most interesting -- and rarely-heard -- artists from Ireland and abroad.

Here's a breakdown of what Wurm is doing this autumn:

8th September: Joint event with Veer Books, a publishing project which comes out of the activities at Birkbeck College’s Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), performances by Stephen Mooney, Maurice Scully, Aodan McCardle.

20th September: Poetry performances by Phil Hall (Canada), Kerrie O'Brien (Ireland).

18th October: Performance by Frances Presley (UK).

September-November 2011: Publication of two full-length collections, Spitting out the Mother Tongue, by Christodoulos Makris, and a new prose and poetry mix by Dave Lordan.

So, where will your money go?

About half will be directed towards the publishing projects. Each book costs about €400 to produce, and we're aiming to fund half of that here on Fund it, and half with book sales.  The majority of the rest of the money will go towards funding travel costs from for poets who come from outside Ireland. We're very lucky in that Phil Hall is passing through Dublin on a tour, so we don't need to buy a plane ticket from Canada to hear him! But Frances Presley, who's coming from the UK, does need her out-of-pocket expenses covered, to the tune of €250.

Finally, we're sharing the costs of the joint launch with Veer Books, and our half will cost €80. This will help a really innovative press develop an Irish platform.  We're also donating some money to Hello Operator, a great independent gallery space.

Thank you so much for your support.