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EVENTOLOGY Archive
2024
Feb 16: Maja Torjussen mun / sun and Lydia Hounat Notes of a Mongrel’s DNA double book launch event at The Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1DH w/Lydia Hounat, Martin Wakefield, Iris Colomb, David Spittle, Julia Rose Lewis & Cameron Wade
March 23: London Rich Mix Arts Centre 7pm doors : 7.30pm start - Free Entry 35-47 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA With readings and performances by SJ Fowler, Jules Sprake, Laura Davis, Julia Rose Lewis, Stephen Sunderland, Paul Hawkins, Jessica Pritchard, Oscar Rodriguez, Tereza Stehlikova and more to be announced.
June 22: Sarer Scotthorne's Suggested Breathing launch w/Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger & Paul Hawkins at The Blue Room, Bristol BS6 5BY
June 26: European Poetry Festival 2024 - Swedish Poetry Celebration at One Hundred Years Gallery, London with Ida Börjel and Landa wo / Francis de Lima / SJ Fowler and Benedict Taylor / Chiara Ambrosio and Victor Rees / Iavor Lubomirov and Ed Hadfield / Helene Proißl and Matt Martin / Lucija Rosc and Patrick Cosgrove / Paul Hawkins and Julia Rose Lewis / John Mateer / Anna Ayanoglou / Thomas Ballhausen
Dec 5: Writers Kingston Event #83 : Sound Poetry and Sonic Literature at The Poetry Society Cafe
7pm - Free Entry The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street London, Covent Garden. London WC2H 9BX poetrysociety.org.uk/venue/poetry-cafe-2/ A night celebrating the potential of the human voice and live literature, in the grand tradition of Sound Poetry, Noise Making, Mouth Music and Improvised Vocalisation, all performed as new duets. With duet sound poetry / sonic literature performances by Phil Minton and Steven J Fowler / Serena Braida and Vilde Bjerke Torset / Will Rene and Emily Wood / Sylee Gore and Rushika Wick / Patrick Cosgrove and Benedict Taylor / Bob T Bright and Cameron Wade / Paul Hawkins and Julia Rose Lewis / Michael O’Mahony and Milo Thesiger-Meacham / Mischa Foster Poole and David Spittle.
2023
Jan 29: POEM BRUT at One Hundred Years Gallery, London E2 3.30pm, free Entry w/Laura Davis, Felix McNamara, Julia Rose Lewis, Paul Hawkins, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, Bob T Bright, SJ Fowler, Yoshiki Ukai and Mark Rutter alongside the launch of “Biros II” by Patrick Cosgrove from Hesterglock Press & more tba
Mar 17 - Mar 19
Postcards From Mental States
Paper & Ink Festival 2023 Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN
Gas Lips & Stingbean from Postcards From Mental States by Julia Lewis & Paul Hawkins will be shown as part of the Living With Other People anthology (Corrupted Press) in a large Group Exhibition
March 31: Book Launch of Postcards From Mental States by Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins (Hesterglock Press)
MAY 6: NETHERLANDS POETRY CELEBRATION 19:30, FREE ENTRY AT RICH MIX LONDON E1 6LA w/MARIA BARNAS & AGNIESZKA STUDZINSKA, SASJA JANSSEN & PRUDENCE CHAMBERLAIN-BUSSEY, LORI WIKE & ANTHONY ETHERIN, WILL RENE & VICTOR REES, SJ FOWLER & NICK ROTH, MARK COVERDALE & JULIA ROSE LEWIS, TATIANA FAIA & SIMONA NASTAC ONDŘEJ MACL & PAUL HAWKINS. CURATED BY SJ FOWLER. 'PART OF NEW DUTCH WRITING, PRESENTED BY THE DUTCH FOUNDATION FOR LITERATURE' for the EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2023
June 1 - June 31 2023
KAPWA: POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL LANDSCAPES
at North Fork Arts Projects, The Refugee Arts Centre, St Helena, CA USA. A group exhibition featuring Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Ulysses Duterte, Jr., Paul Hawkins, Geoff Huth, harry k stammer, Julia Rose Lewis, Michelangelo Mayo, April Milszeski, Anne Murray, and Phyllis Shaw. Curated by Eileen Tabios, take a look here . . . The Refugee Arts Centre is possibly the thinest gallery in the world.
JUNE 3: POEM BRUT AT OPEN EALING UNIT 14, SCHOOL LANE, DICKENS YARD LONDON W5 2TD W/AGATA MASLOWSKA, SAFIA KAMEL, JULIA ROSE LEWIS, RONA LUO, PAUL HAWKINS, MICHAEL SUTTON, DAN POWER, CAMERON WADE, MATT SOKULSKY, MARK RUTTER, RICHARD MARSHALL PLUS THE POPOGROU COLLECTIVE (VICKI KAYE, BEV FRYDMAN, SIMON TYRRELL, BOB T BRIGHT). THIS EVENT WILL ALSO SEE THE LAUNCH OF SJ FOWLER’S ‘RECENTLY ATTRACTED REALITY INFLUENCERS’ FROM OVERGROUND UNDERGROUND PRESS.
2022
Jan 19 - Feb 3: Linda Parr’s Postcards for Perec is now installed in The Street Gallery at the Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University. I’ve a piece of work on this touring group exhibition.
Feb 1 - March 15 2022 - ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION I’m the featured artist in the Bower Ashton Library showcase at the Centre For Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK - for details on the exhibition, open daily 9 - 5pm, download the latest Book Arts Newsletter here
Feb 23: Bill Drummond conducted a Forty Minute Interview with me at Eachwhat Studio, #bristol
March 10: Centre For Print Research Print in Conversation with Angie Butler and Paul Hawkins in the Print/Publishing space, C Block, Bower Ashton campus, UWE, Bristol, 12.30-1.15. Publishing, Poem Brut, Eachwhat Industries and much more. Free, all welcome.
March 26 - April 27: Holding Patterns w/ Julia Rose-Lewis print exhibition at Eachwhat Studio
April 2: Holding Patterns book launch w/Julia Rose-Lewis, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Andres Anwandtner & Paul Hawkins
June 4: HANDSFREE book preview & print exhibition opening event w/Wakefield & Modem, Sarer Scotthorne, Emma Filtness, Stephen Sunderland, Nic Stringer, Dan Power, Chris Boyland, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Richard Biddle & James Knight FREE 16:30
2021
Jan 27: Insect Sleep Under Birdsong: A collaboration between visual artist/poet Paul Hawkins and poet/sound artist Peter Jaeger commissioned by Writers Centre Kingston - new poetry-films commissioned in Covid-19 Lockdown in lieu of their normal new years events program.
June 10: 19:00 A City of London Poem Brut event w/Saradha Soobrayen, Richard Marshall, Susie Campbell, Martin Wakefield, Chris Kerr, Dan Power, Denise Bonetti & more TBA
June 11: 16:00 - A Poem Brut event by the Thames in Kingston w/Bob Bright, Julia Lewis, Jacqui Ennis Cole, Saradha Soobrayen, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove & more TBA
June 17: Photo Poetry SURFACES exhibition opening night of exhibition and catalogue launch part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021 - a Zoom event starting at 19:00 BST with a Panel Discussion with Chris McCabe, Jon Nicholls, Federica Chiocchetti & David Solo & Performances/Discussion with Liz Berry / Tom Hicks, Astra Papachristodoulou, James Knight, Laurent Chevalier, SJ Fowler, Sarah Cave / Dragana Jurisic, Paul Hawkins & Vik Shirley more info
June 17 - present: Photo Poetry SURFACES online group exhibition - part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021. featuring works by Liz Berry / Tom Hicks, Jamila Lyiscott / Laurent Chevalier, Vik Shirley, Silje Ree, James Knight, Astra Papachristodoulou, Sarah Cave / Dragana Jurisic, Amak Mahmoodian, Sophie Herxheimer / Chris McCabe, Paul Hawkins & SJ Fowler / Bård Torgersen. Curated by David Solo, Astra Papachristodoulou & Paul Hawkins. ︎︎︎more info
July 1 - Aug 31: Postcards for Perec at UWE, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. In the 40th anniversary of the passing of Georges Perec, new postcards have been made in response to Perec’s 1978 work Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour. I’m a contributor in this brilliant, timely group exhibition.
Aug 2: BRLSI, Bath - SJ Fowler Bastard Poems book launch event - more details tbc
Aug 14: Pre-launch of Seen as Read (KUP, 2021) anthology at Open Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14, School Lane, Dickens Yard, London W5 2TD feat. Chris Kerr, Beverley Frydman, Susie Campbell, Paul Hawkins, Vicki Kaye, Lynette Willoughby, Madelaine Culver, Martin Wakefield, Agnieszka Studzinka, Simon Tyrrell, Patrick Cosgrove and maybe David Hayward, Sylee Gore & Laura Davis more TBC
Sept 11 - Nov 11: Postcards for Perec at Winchester School of Art. In the 40th anniversary of the passing of Georges Perec, new postcards have been made in response to Perec’s 1978 work Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour. I’m a contributor in this brilliant, timely group exhibition.
Oct 6: NO POETRY DAY more details
Oct 12: Lunchtime Poetry Without Words event at UWE, Bower Ashton library 12.00–1.00: find out about Poem Brut and Poetry Without Words artists and their work with film screening and commentary. Part of The Printed Poetry Symposium. Free.
Oct 15: Poem Brut in Bristol The second launch of SJ Fowler’s ‘Bastard Poems’ from Steel Incisors Press and ‘25 poems’ from AB Press / Nomad Letterpress at 18:30 - 20:45 at EACHWHAT INDUSTRIES STUDIO, Unit 18, The Broadwalk Centre, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2Q. With readings and performances from Paul Hawkins, James Knight, Vicki Kaye, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Dominic Jaeckle, Angie Butler, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, SJ Fowler, Tom Weir, Aaron Kent, Martin Wakefield and more. An extraordinary group of poets, writers and artists, all based in the Bristol area region, present an evening of new experimental literary performance works, made for the night. A true range of what’s possible in contemporary British-based poetry will celebrate collage, liveness and textual play. Free entry with a booktable with books for sale
Oct 19: Writers Kingston event #44
The Seen as Read Anthology Launch with readings and performances by Chris Kerr, Rushika Wick, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, Richard Biddle, Mikael Buck, Paul Hawkins, Vicki Kaye, Martin Wakefield, SJ Fowler. 7pm start in the Town House Building : Courtyard Venue55-59 Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE
Enter the building and take a right at the front desk. Ask at reception for Writers Kingston event - Entrance Free
Nov 9: New book launches at POEM BRUT in Kingston, The Townhouse Courtyard, Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, UK - celebrating new books by Chris Kerr, Patrick Cosgrove & Martin Wakefield, with much more to be announced
Nov 28: Beir Bua Press published ︎︎︎ Holding Patterns a selection of a place/space collaborative project with Julia Rose Lewis. Get a copyhere
Dec 4: NEW AGENTS PRINT EXHIBITION opening feat. breadtrain, Steve Ryan, Super Art Asset Collective, Anon Holmes, OPTIKA, infanzia al peperoncino at Eachwhat Industries Studio, Bristol until Jan 17 2022
Dec 10: Beir Bua Press book launches w/Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins, JP Seabright, Templeton Moss & Andrew Rihn on Zoom at 8pm, register for tickets here
2020
Jan 29: Temporary Spaces exhibition launch night featuring music and performances from some of the contributing poets involved in the show. Contributing artists and poets include Sarah Dawson, Paul Hawkins, Silje Ree, Claire Collison, Stephen Emmerson, James Knight, Michelle Penn, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou and Nic Stringer. FREE entry/£3 suggested donation w/chance to buy a unique exhibition catalogue published by Pamenar Press
Feb 22: Dostoyevsky Wannabe special launch event for SJ Fowler’s I will show you the life of the mind (On prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020) at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, London. Featuring these DW authors; SJ Fowler, Christodoulos Makris, Nadia de Vries, Dominic Jaeckle, Andrew Hodgson, James Davies, Jessica Sequeir, Paul Hawkins, Colin Herd & Russell Bennetts
Feb 23: launch event for SJ Fowler’s I will show you the life of the mind (On prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020) w/ Nadia de Vries, Dominic Jaeckle, Andrew Hodgson, Jessica Sequeira, Christodoulos Makris, Paul Hawkins, Colin Herd, SJ Fowler and Russell Bennetts at the Toriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX
May 28: Fathomsun Press curate an online launch for Pomes & Joys - a celebratory anthology of poetry & essays for Anna Mendelssohn starts 7pm. This anthology features contributions from Charlie Baylis, Sara Crangle, Stephen Emmerson, Joey Frances, Callie Gardner, Paul Hawkins, Linda Kemp, Lotte L.S., Tom Snarsky, Vicky Sparrow, and Florence Uniacke. Published on 18th May 2020 as a PDF // 45 pp, all proceeds donated to the Estate of Anna Mendelssohn BUY a copy
Aug 15 - Sept 5: NeoptiCo Collectiv launch exhibition + book launch Astropolis (Hesterglock Press, expanded 2nd edition) by Astra Papachristodoulou at Poem Atlas more details TBA curated by Astra Papachristodoulou & Paul Hawkins
Oct 30 – Nov 1: Prague Microfestival 2020 Online INTERNATIONAL WRITING, ART, FILM, THEORY & PERFORMANCE – performing were: Nina Dragičević, Robin Mackay, Loretta Lau, Germán Sierra, Susan Tomaselli, John Trefry, Nataša Velikonja, Louis Armand, Jo Blin, Richard Makin, Yi Wei, Paul Hawkins, Sheila Mannix, Richard Marshall, Dragana Mokan, Márk Horváth, The Flatmates, Orkida Bracula, Valen Sandoval, Danny Huppatz, Simone Hutchinson, Artis Ostups, Kira Pietrek, Michael Rowland, Interior Ministry, Barry Wan, Adam Lovasz, Diffractions Collective, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling, Aleš Čermák, Sarer Scotthorne, Andrew J. Wilt, Roksan Mandel, Filip Pastula, Tomáš Hatala, Mark Divo, M.S. Mekibes, Blood, Love & Rhetoric, Phillip O’Neil, Tyko Say, Eli Anders, adO/Aptive, Daniel Hüttler, Márió Z. Nemez, Zsolt Miklósvögi, Cam Deas, The Syndicate & includes the launch of Monument by John Kinsella & Louis Armand (Hesterglock Press, 2020) full online programme here
Dec 16: The Weird Folds (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020) online launch 8.00pm UK
2019
Feb 20: Camarade at The Museum of Futures – collaborative readings w/Sarah Dawson & Astra Papachristodoulou, Olga Kolesnikova & Yvonne Litschel, Lisa Kiew & Jacquelin Ennis Cole, Paul Hawkins & Martin Wakefield, Han Smith & Iris Colomb, Karen Sandhu & Vilde Valerie, Bjerke Torset, Mark Chamberlain & Ruby Wroe, Emilee Moyce & Joe Turrent, Susie Campbell. Plus readings from Julia Rose Lewis, Helena Artus, Marcia Knight Latter celebrating the launch of their Sampson Low Poetry Pamphlets.
March 15: ANATHEMA – experimental poetry in Bristol event w/ Pascal O’Loughlin, Sarah Cave , Paul Hawkins & James Knight £3 @ Storysmith Books, Bristol
April 25: Making Connections Conference – taking part in roundtable discussion panel & hack hour LCC, Elephant & Castle, London
June 20: original plus DUB anthology launch – The Pelican, Peckham, London w/Christian Patracchini, Richard Skinner, Iris Colomb, Sally-Shakti Willow, Dolly Turing, Paul Hawkins, Roy McFarlane, Lizzy Turner, Steven Mooney, Neil Sparkes, Rishi Dastidar, Patrick Davidson Roberts & Astrid Alben more tbc
July 8: An invisible poetry : SJ Fowler and Poet’s Brut Launch event for a group show, featuring Chris McCabe, Karen Sandhu, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou, Patrick Cosgrove, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset and Paul Hawkins, at the Poetry Society Cafe, London
July 1 – Aug 31: An invisible poetry : SJ Fowler and Poet’s Brut Exhibition at The Poetry Society’s Cafe : group show, featuring Chris McCabe, Karen Sandhu, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou, Patrick Cosgrove, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset and Paul Hawkins.
July 13: Poem Brut at Rich Mix #12, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 also the launch of Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit by SJ Fowler – Lisa Kiew, Patrick Cosgrove, Mischa Foster Poole, Harry Man, Vilde Valerie Vilde Torset, Paul Hawkins, Simon Tyrrell, Michael O’Mahony, SJ Fowler, Rushika Rush, Maria Sledmere and more poet-artists to be announced soon
July 25: Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit book launch II + Hesterglock/Prote(s)xt Press event at the Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London EC1 w/performances & readings from SJ Fowler, Pascal O’Loughlin, James Caley, Katy Wareham Morris, David Turner, Matthew Turner, James Knight & Sally-Shakti Willow
July 25 – 28: WOMAD Festival Paul Hawkins & Neil Sparkes plus special guests LIVE on RADIO WOMAD during the World of Music, Arts & Dance at Malmesbury, Wilts, UK. To promote our recent ground-breaking anthology original plus DUB Paul & Neil will be talking about the dub remix anthology & reading work with Snazzback ‘s Myke Vince on water cooler & pandero plus Run Logan Run‘s Andrew Neil Hayes on sax.
Oct 4: Penteract Press Book launch w/ Anthony Etherin, Mary Frances, James Knight, Mark Saltveit, Claudia Danierie, myself & more TBC at The Swan, Cheltenham, 7pm
Nov 9: Zugunruhe by Martin Wakefield to be launched as part of Poem Brut at Rich Mix #6, London w/new performances/commissions by Kathy Pendrill, Richard Marshall, Jacqueline Ennis Cole, Khaled Hakim, Lizzy Turner, Paul Hawkins, Martin Wakefield, Mischa Foster Poole, Saradha Soobrayen and Lisa Alexander.… from 7pm, free entry
Nov 30: C R A S H a new experimental poetry event feat. Vik Shirley, Matt Haigh, Sarah Cave, James Knight & Paul Hawkins The Flute & Tankard, Cardiff, 19.30 free entry
2018
Jan 13: HARD TO READ – Collected Paint Poems, Pansemia, Cinematic Drawings and Logograms of SJ FOWLER. A special evening performance to launch SJ Fowler’s Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) w/ Featuring new performances by Paul Hawkins, Imogen Reid, Christian Patracchini, Patrick Cosgrove, Mischa Foster Poole, SJ Fowler and more. Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Feb 22 to March 21: VISUAL POETRY EXHIBITION 2018: SCRIBBLING AND SCRAWLING at MUSEUM OF FUTURES, 117 Brighton Rd, Surbiton KT6 5NJ. Featuring works by Alan Boyce, Daniele Pantano, Paul Hawkins, Julia Rose Lewis & many more tba. Curated by Molly Bergin, Yvonne Litschel, Shelisha Johnson, Silje Ree, Vilde Torset & SJ Fowler
March 7: launch of Cocktail Kafkaine by Mustapha Benfodil / Joe Ford (trans.) Mustapha Benfodil reading & in conversation at The Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Room: Parkinson SR (1.08) Time: 17:00-19:00. Published by Hesterglock Press
March 17: Poem Brut at Rich Mix II 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA. Featuring new work from Chrissy Williams, Lavinia Singer, Matvei Yankelevich, Julia Rose Lewis, Julia Schuster, Olga Moskvina, Oliver Mayeux, Mischa Foster Poole, Ruhi Parmar Amin, Andre Bagoo and more. The event will also mark the launch of a new #poembrut publication: hiromi suzuki’s logbook, published by Hesterglock Press. The event is free, 7pm for a 7.30pm start
April 21: Non-normative Poetry Bookfair for presses publishing work that pushes through boundaries of the normal, whether that’s sociopolitical normal, gender norms, or formal norms of poetry. Inc. Crater, Veer, Contraband, London Materials/Splinter, Carnaval Press, Knives, Forks and Spoons, Spanner, Tipped Press, homebakedbooks, Hesterglock, Zarf, Stinky Bear Press, Singing Apple Press, Lumin Journal, Great Works, Johan de Wit, Shearsman & more tbc. There are readings every hour on the hour. Starts 12 noon at T.Chances 399 High Road, N17 6QN London, UK
April 26 – July 1: National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London artwork of mine fragiles (07) is included in the world’s first Instagram poetry exhibition, showcasing the best of over 1,000 Instapoetry submissions more info
April 28: Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Bristol & Lou Ham book launch at Rough Trade Records, Bristol 2.30pm FREE with Lizzy Turner, Clive Birnie, Vik Shirley, David Turner, Sarer Scotthorne & me & I’ll be launching Lou Ham:RAS more details here
May 5: Hesterglock / Poem Brut @ Spike Island A Spike Island Open Studios event with pop-up art exhibits, the making of a communal cut-up art poem, films, mass participation readings, interactions, performances, books for sale. Curated by Paul Hawkins feat. Sarer Scotthorne / Christian Patracchini / Isadora Vibes / David Turner / Vik Shirley / Peter Jaeger / Camilla Nelson / Clive Birnie / Lizzy Turner / Liz Zumin / Paul Hawkins. Spike Island 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX.1.30 – 5.00 FREE ENTRY
June 6: Poem Brut at National Poetry Library Featuring new work from Maja Jantar, Saradha Soobrayen, Chrissy Williams, Paul Hawkins, Patrick Cosgrove, SJ Fowler and more. Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Free entry – 7pm More info
September 27: DW at Housmans Radical Bookshop Readings by Dostoyevsky Wannabe authors w/Rosie Snajdr, Bertie Marshall, Lara Alonso Corona & Paul Hawkins. 19.00 £3 – Housmans Radical Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9DX
Nov 10: Poem Brut at Rich Mix new work from Susanna Crossman, Nathan Walker, Sarah Dawson, Peter Surkov, Ryan Mihaly & Karolina Zapal, Martin Wakefield, Arturo Desimone, Alban Low & Kevin Acott, Dovydas Laurinaitis. James Caley & Abi Palmer. PLUS the launch of the softcover edition of Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) by SJ Fowler & James Caley’s 4 Steps from the Wire (Prote(s)xt). Copies will, naturally, be on sale – from 7pm – free entry Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
November 22: the ZENO PRESS launch of FELT – AESTHETICS OF GREY at LOUIE LOUIE 347 Walworth Road, London SE17 2AL – w/ readings from FELT contributors Ansgar Allen, Paul Hawkins, Richard Webb & Rob Miller and readings by Zeno Magazine contributors Daniel Fraser, Matthew Turner & Andrew Milward. 20.00, free entry
2017
Feb 25: #Anathema #1 a new reading series for experimental writing in Bristol, curated by Moot Press + Hesterglock Press + Sad Press w/JR Carpenter, Felix Bazalgette, Rowan Evans, Sarah Hayden, Lila Matsumoto, paul hawkins, Camilla Nelson & Tony White BOOK TABLE + DRINKS // 7.00 for 7.30pm start // ALL WELCOME @ Hamilton House, 80, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
March 31: #Anathema #2 18:30 The Light Room at the Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA w/ Redell Olsen, Iain Morrison, Anne-Laure Coxham, nick-e melville, [Sub]Atomic / Sally-Shakti Willow & Joe Evans entry by donation
April 6: Arnolfini, Bristol 19:00 free, The launch of SJ Fowler’s latest poetry collection ‘The Guide to Being Bear Aware’ from Bristol-based Shearsman Books, featuring performances and readings from Fowler and guest readers John Hall, Holly Corfield Carr, Paul Hawkins, Phil Owen & more to be announced more info here
May 30: The Square Club, Bristol Erbacce Press w/Sarer Scotthorne, Matt Duggan, Paul Hawkins, Sam Smith & Monica Kostera at 15 Berkeley Square, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1HB where a mass audience reading of Place Waste Dissent was recorded
June 21-24: diisonance exhibition of collaborative prote(s)xt art by Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
June 23 14:00 – 16:30 cost £5 ltd. places – Paul Hawkins & Rowan Evans running a workshop on creating experimental collaborative poetry – all attending will be invited to read their new work at the evening event, and included in Diisonance to be published by Hesterglock Press. contact Paul to book a place and for more info: hesterglock at gmail dot com
June 23 Diisonance – 18.30 experimental collaborative poetry & performance at Bank Street Arts – Sarer Scotthorne, Miggy Angel, Rowan Evans, Leire Barrera, Dan Eltringham, Linda Kemp, Roy McFarlane, Paul Hawkins & Emteaz Hussain. Free entry
Sept 1 – 30: diisonance exhibition @ The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 collaborative artworks: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins
Sept 8: Diisonance book launch w/ special guest Gary Budden, Sarer Scotthorne, Roy McFarlane, Tony White & Paul Hawkins. Entry by donation. The Gallery Cafe, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London
September 29: hesterglock press // caplet collaboration @ The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 poetry & dialogue w/ Jonathan Mann, Jude Cowan Montague, Matti Spence, Luna Montenegro, Iris Colomb & Paul Hawkins + improvised sounds from The Happy Couple
November 17: The 15th Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival at the A4 Space for Contemporary Culture / Karpatská 2, Bratislava feat. 6pm / WOW! A theatrical play with poetry present in full force… Premiere of the English version, by the Debris company (SK) Voiceover Ron Padgett (USA) poetry from Eleni Cay (SK/GB), Paul Hawkins (GB), Aurélia Lassaque (FR), Petr Borkovec (CZ) & Zsuzsa Emese Csobánka(HU) & special guest of the night: Titilope Sonuga (CAN/NE) spoken word performance more details here Ars Poetica
October 11: Satellite of Love inc. Jude Cowan Montague, Paul Hawkins and more tbc 8.15pm at The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
November 24: Hesterglock | Moot | Sad co-curate ANATHEMA 10 experimental poetry & performance w/ Carrie Etter, Jonathan Mulcahy, Meghan McKeague, Justin Katko & Lucy Beynon @ the Arnolfini, Bristol
November 25: Poem Brut, featuring new work from Harry Man, Imogen Reid, Stephen Emmerson, Hiromi Suzuki, Lotje Sodderland, Paul Hawkins, Chloe Spicer, Kate Wakeling and more. The event will also be the launch of SJ Fowler’s book I fear my best work behind me with Stranger Press. The event is free, doors at 7pm. Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA more tbc
December 15: Hesterglock | Moot | Sad co-curate ANATHEMA 11 experimental poetry & performance w/ Rhys Trimble, Iris Colomb, Amy McAuley more tbc 6.30pm @ the Arnolfini, Bristol.
2016
Feb 27: Resonance FM The News Agents 2:30pm – 3:30pm. Paul hawkins on The News Agents show on eclectic arts radio Resonance FM again talking about radical housing, squatting, protest as well as reading from my recent Influx Press book Place Waste Dissent. Resonance FM is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayerand live streamed to the rest of the world. Realised by a dedicated community of volunteer engineers and programme-makers, Resonance offers over 100 creative broadcast series every week featuring local and international artists, makers and experts. You can listen in here
March 9: Satellite of Love w/Sarer Scotthorne/Matt Duggan/Malaika Kegode/Wendy Young/Grace Palmer/Angela Brooks/Ellie Burmistre/Helen Sheppard/Omar Makessa 8.15pm at The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
March 13: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/Paul Hawkins & more 8.30 at the Bristol Fringe Cafe 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
March 17 – April 9: Place Waste Dissent at End||Begin 32 City Arcade, Coventry, CV1 3HW. The highly anticipated group show of Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival, will showcase a selection of fifteen fine artists from across the UK who the Collective//Pod have worked with over the last 18 months. I’m proud to have an early draft manuscript of my Influx Press experimental poetry collage cut-up book Place Waste Dissent on exhibit. The manuscript was pasted and cut-up into a hand-made book by Clara Quinion, and I read from it at many events before the book was edited and then published in November 2015. End||Begin is co-curated by Collective//Pod members professional artist Martin Green and emerging artist Colin Oddy.
March 19: Servant Drone launch, Gato Vadio, Rua do Rosário, 281 4050-525 Porto 6pm :: Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins. Made possible by the generous support of the Porto/Bristol Association and are fully free
March 23: Page and Performance, w/Paul Hawkins & more @The Cross Hands, Fishponds Bristol 8pm free
March 25: Servant Drone launch, Bloom & Curll Bookshop, 72 Colston Street Bristol BS1 5BB 6.30pm :: Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne. Made possible by the generous support of the Porto/Bristol Association and are fully free
March 26: InZine #5 The Pod, Coventry CV1 4AE 12 – 5pm Paul Hawkins + Sarer Scotthorne + Dan Duggan + Zine Fest/film/exhibition – part of Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival
April 10: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/Paul Hawkins & more 8.30pm at the Bristol Fringe Cafe, 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
May 11: Satellite of Love w/ Paul Hawkins & more 8.15pm The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
May 29: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/ Paul Hawkins & more 8.30pm at the Bristol Fringe Cafe, 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
June 8: Satellite of Love Paul Hawkins & more 8.15pm The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road BS5 6DP fund raiser forBristol Refugee Rights
June 22: Riot, Resistance & The Contested Future 7:30pm an evening of spoken-word, film & discussion in response to Jimmy Cauty’s #ADPRiotTour installation with poets Paul Hawkins, Sam Berkson, a short screening from Riots Reframed, Sheila Menon from #heathrow13, Jimmy Cauty, L-13‘s Steve Lowe and me at Unit 6, Imperial Works, Fountayne Road, London N15 4QL free
July 28: Speech Therapy w/Paul Hawkins 7 more + open mic @ The Chameleon Arts Cafe, 17 Angel Row, Nottingham, NG1 6HL, free 7.30pm
September 24: Bristol Poetry Festival w/Erbacce press poets Sarer Scotthorne, Paul Hawkins & more 7:00pm at Bloom & Curll Bookshop, 72 Colston Street, Bristol. Entry: buy a book from Bloom & Curll
August 6: Enemies Project, Paul Hawkins & Lucy English + many more @ Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN 01225 312084 7.00pm doors for a 7.30pm start. Entrance free
October 1: w/Run Logan Run, Kit Williams Fergradoe, Sarer Scotthorne, Spindle Ensemble & Paul Hawkins w/ Rowan Evans at The Church of St John the Baptist, Broad Street Bristol BS1 2EZ 7:30 – 11pm, £5.00 click here: limited to 50, booking essential refreshments by Nourish Me. This event is part of the Bristol Poetry Festival
Oct 6: Bank Street Arts 6pm – 8pm free entry – Paul Hawkins reading from Place Waste Dissent and screening Blight, a film by John Smith with the soundtrack by Jocelyn Pook
October 5 – 8: Place Waste Dissent Exhibition, daily 11am – 4pm free at Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS. An exhibition of text & prints by Paul Hawkins Steve Ryan from the Influx Press book Place Waste Dissent, there will also be readings from Place Waste Dissent and film screenings of Life In The Fast Lane: The No M11 Story (dir: Neil Goodwin, Mayyasa Al-Malazi) & Blight (John Smith/Jocelyn Pook)
November 19: Gullivers Lounge, Manchester Launch of The Secret of Good Posture (Team Trident Press 2016) w/Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne, Dan Eltringham & Pippa Nayer £3 @ 7:30pm
October 28: Bristol Festival of Literature w/Erbacce Press poets 7:30pm at The Phoenix Cafe, All Saints Street, Broadmead, Bristol BS1 2LZ
November 25: Bloom & Curll Books, Bristol Launch of The Secret of Good Posture w/Paul Hawkins & Rowan Evans 7:30pm
2015
Jan 21: The Twisted Teapot Boscombe w/ Jonny Fluffypunk, Markie Burnhope, Paul Hawkins, Myriam San Marco, Sarer Scotthorne, Julia Boore & Barbara Donne – Bosc:Rev Issue 3 launch
March 21: Resonance FM guest on The News Agents show, w/Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne
Feb 21: Mr Wolf’s Bristol w/Schoolboy’s Death Trio, Paul Hawkins & more
June 26: Mahu Influx at The Hardy Tree Gallery, Kings Cross, London. 7.30pm free entry
A night of eclectic readings from Influx writers and editors, taking in New York stories from Linda Mannheim, experimental squat poetry from Paul Hawkins, tales of light invading the dark by Clare Fisher, plus readings from Influx editors Kit Caless and Gary Budden
August 20: The Inspire Bar, Coventry Hesterglock Press launch of Margaret Thatcher’s Museum by Antony Owen w/Antony Owen, Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne
September 5: Vogue Fabrics, Dalston London: MAINTENANT 9: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART UK launch w/Paul Hawkins & many more
Inzine Fest IV at The Pod in Coventry with Antony Owen, Paul Hawkins, Thomas MacColl, Sarer Scotthorne, Simone Estridge, Adam Steiner + more. Free
Oct 29 – Nov 21: Temple Church Bristol Sanctum
Paul hawkins will be doing five solo performances; four reading Place Waste Dissent from cover to cover and the fifth, a red-eye 2 hour marathon, reading from Claremont Road, Contumacy, Place Waste Dissent and Servant Drone. This autumn, a remarkable structure is rising up from within the bombed out remains of Temple Church in Bristol. For 24 days, this 14th century site is being transformed into an intimate gathering place in which to hear the city like never before. Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates was invited by Bristol arts producer, Situations, to create his first public project in the UK as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The artist has sought out discarded and dormant materials from former places of labour and religious devotion across Bristol to build an intimate and distinctive temporary structure at Temple Church. From 6pm on Thursday 29th October, Sanctum will host a continuous programme of sound over 552 hours until Saturday 21st November, sustained by performers, musicians and bands, spoken word artists and the visiting casts of theatre productions in Bristol.
Oct 27 – 30: Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe at Meyrick Hall, Bournemouth 12.00 – 4.00pm daily SIX Gallery are exhibiting prints of collage/text from Paul Hawkins’ Influx Press collection Place Waste Dissent as part of their Line & Mass series, along with other work including Matthew Shaw – Alchemical Figure, Beatriz Brooks – A Castle for the Inner Child, Adam Popli – Asian Osmosis. Performances include: Flights of the Imagination, J.U.D.I.T.H by Marja Christians and DeCoda by David Nock. FREE.
Nov 10 – Dec 12: Place Waste Dissent Exhibition at The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU
an exhibition of art & text featured in the collection more info
Nov 21: 7.30pm Influx Press Bristol book launch at The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU more info‘Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road. Using the voices of Dolly Watson and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.’ Join us at The Arts House celebrating the publication of ‘Place Waste Dissent’ and an accompanying month-long exhibition of art and text featured in the collection, with readings, a short film screening and a Q&A with the author. w/Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne & Sam Berkson
Dec 5: 7.00pm Influx Press Book Launch at the Brick Lane Bookshop 166, Brick Lane, London E1 6RU more info Join Influx Press at Brick Lane Bookshop celebrating the publication of our new title, ‘Place Waste Dissent’ by Paul Hawkins. Reading are: Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne, George F & Lucy Furlong. The event is FREE!! 7pm Signed books on sale on the night.
2014
Jan 27 – Feb 1: SIX Gallery Roumelia Lane Boscombe w/Andrew McCutchion (The Sidemen) curating Unprepared Piano
Feburary 28: SIX Gallery, Roumelia Lane, Boscombe Bournemouth: launch of Paul Hawkins’ Claremont Road pamphlet w/Steve Rushden, Markie Burnhope & Sarer Scotthorne
March: Split collaboration w/Mark Lloyd
March 28: The Hydra Bookshop, Bristol w/Paul Hawkins & more
April 25: The Hydra Bookshop, Bristol w/Paul Hawkins & more
May 1: The Horse Hospital, London International Launch of Cut UP! Anthology w/Anne Pigalle, A.D. Hitchin, Nina Antonia, Billy Chainsaw, Paul Hawkins & Matthew Levi Stevens
May 2 & 3: Vita Nova Theatre, Roumelia Lane Boscombe Bournemouth performing w/Scott Lavene as Gunshot
May 31: The Saboteur Awards The Jericho Tavern Oxford with Lucy Ayrton, Tina Sederholm, Dan Holloway, Rose Drew, Florence O’Mahoney, Emily Cleaver, Thomas McColl, Lyndsay Waller-Wilkinson, Nichola Deane, David Clarke, John Clegg, Andrew Wynn Owen, Jacqueline Saphra, Ashley Stokes, Kate Garrett, May-Lan Tan, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Tim Wells, Rowena Knight, Paul Hawkins, Kirsten Irving, Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, Jenni Pascoe, Fay Roberts & Steve Nash
October 25: Camaradefest II at Rich Mix Arts Centre London: 100 poets in collaborative performances inc. Paul Hawkins with Mali Clements
2013
May 18: Brighton Fringe Festival as a member of The Sidemen (Paul Hawkins & Andrew McCutchion)
July 15 – 17: MIX 2 DIGITAL TEXT ON SCREENS BATH SPA UNIVERSITY, CORSHAM COURT CAMPUS 15TH-17TH JULY 2013
running Workshop 4: Transmedia Activism with Donna Hancox, Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, Bath Spa University & poet Paul Hawkins presenting locative storytelling project, Untold Boscombe
August 16: w/Paul Hawkins, Jane Cartwright & more The Shelley Theatre, Boscombe Bournemouth
Sept 13 & 14: Boscombe Fringe Festival w/ Flea – Paul Hawkins / St Anne’s – Jane Cartwright / PAUSE. PLEASE. REWIND THE TAPE – Gail Cecil/ 612 Media / The Fridge – Simon McCormack & more at Vita Nova, Roumelia Lane, Boscombe
Oct 5: Performance of Flea on Hope FM w/Paul Hawkins & more
December 13: live improvised performance of Boscombe Suite Boscombe at The Friends Meeting House Boscombe BH5 1AH The Music Room Band + w/Paul Hawkins & more
2012
July 2: With One Voice at The Royal Opera House – below a behind-the-scenes documentary about With One Voice – a performance showcase of 300 people who had experienced homelessness at the Royal Opera House on 2 July 2012. Part of the London 2012 Festival and in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Homeless Link, this was the first offical platform for homeless people in Olympic history. For more info visit with1voice.org.uk
1979 – 2012
countless gigs in UK & Europe as bassist &/or guitarist with The Outfits, The Zapweeds, MilkPlus, Baby Groover, Cake, Big Tuna, The Roadbreakers, Backwash, Big Laundry Bill, The Music Room Band, Kat Haskard . . .
Exhibitions
Feb - April 2023
Postcards for Perec
243 contemporary artist responses to the postcard messages of Oulipo virtuoso Georges Perec (1936-1982), curated by Linda Parr, is now being exhibited at Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park Colchester, CO4 3SQ until April 2023. Paul H. is one of those artists who responded.
Nov - Jan 14 2023
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at Uni of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma, WA 98416 USA more info here
Nov - Dec 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives
May 30 - Nov 21 2022
Wakefield & Modem HANDSFREE print exhibition at Eachwhat Studio, Bristol
Oct 30 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at the Festival of Architecture and Design, Istanbul, Turkey
March 26 - April 27 2022
HOLDING PATTERNS
work from Holding Patterns (Beir Bua Press, 2021) by Julia Rose-Lewis and Paul Hawkins at Eachwhat Studio, Broadwalk Centre, Bristol BS4 2QU
Feb 1 - March 1 2022
ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION
Paul Hawkins is the featured artist in the Bower Ashton Library showcase, UWE, Bristol, UK
Jan 19 - Feb 3 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
Linda Parr’s Postcards for Perec group exhibition is on tour and (in which I have a piece of work) now installed in The Street Gallery at the Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University
Sept 5 - 19 2021
TEXT-ISLES
A Poem Atlas group exhibition at The Art park gallery, Rhodes, Greece more details here
JUNE 1 - AUG 31, 2021
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
@ Uni of West of England, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. Artists from twenty-two countries create new postcards in response to the Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour (Perec, 1978). A slideshow featuring Postcards for Perec was shown as part of The Lost Weekend at Bristol Artists Book Event 2021, and was released on 16th April. A touring exhibition and catalogue will be forthcoming. Curated by Linda Parr.
PHOTO POETRY SURFACES
June 2021 - ongoing
online group exhibition part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021 view HERE
JAN 20 – FEB 22, 2020
TEMPORARY SPACES
@ The Poetry Café, London. Via Poem Atlas . To purchase a unique exhibition catalogue pub. by Pamenar Press, take a look here
FEB 3 – MARCH 30, 2020
HESTERGLOCK @ NECK OF THE WOODS
a dozen or so Hesterglock Press books to view/read, along with artworks by Sarer Scotthorne & Paul Hawkins Neck of the Woods Community Cafe, St. Werburgh’s Community Centre, Bristol
FEB 18 – MARCH 10, 2020
NOTATIONAL LITERATURE, THE UNFINISHED WORK
The 4th annual Museum of Futures Exhibition
F A K E
Corrupted Poetry present performances, a pop-up exhibition and a ltd. edition pamphlet @ October Gallery, LONDON
TO BE RESCHEDULED DATE TBC
MAY 15 - JUNE 5, 2020
ESCAPISMS
online exhibition curated by Astra Papachristodoulou for Poem Atlas
JULY 16 - AUG 9, 2020
HOME
Mellom Press curate a multilingual visual poetry group exhibition
FUTURE-FACING
AUG 15 - SEPT 5, 2020
NeoptiCo Collectiv & Astra Papachristodoulou’s Astropolis (Hesterglock Press, expanded 2nd edition) launch exhibition @ Poem Atlas
SEPT 4 2020 - JAN 31 2021
Knives Forks and Spoons Press exhibition as part of the Blackpool Illuminations, installed on Blackpool’s cliff section at the North Shore
POTOS
FEB 17 – MARCH 13 2019
Explorations in handwritten poetry & analog photography @ Museum of Futures, Surbiton
INSTAPOETRY
APRIL 26 – JULY 1 2018
the world’s first Instagram poetry exhibition, showcasing the best of over 1,000 Instapoetry submission @ The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
JULY 1 – AUG 31 2019
AN INVISIBLE POETRY: SJ FOWLER AND POET’S BRUT
group exhibition @ The Poetry Café, London
POEM BRUT AT SPIKE ISLAND
MAY 5 2018
exhibition, workshop & performances
@ Spike Island, Bristol
SCRIBBLING AND SCRAWLING
FEB 22 – MARCH 21 2018
The annual Museum of Futures visual poetry exhibition @ Museum of Futures, Surbiton
HARD TO READ
JAN 13 (performance night) 2018
Collected Paint Poems, Pansemia, Cinematic Drawings and Logograms of SJ Fowler
Rich Mix Gallery, London
DIISONANCE
SEPT 1 – SEPT 30 2017
artworks/performances/book launch: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins, The Gallery Cafe, London
DIISONANCE
JUNE 21- JUNE 24 2017
SIX project space residency: artworks,
performances &
workshop: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
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MARCH 17 – APRIL 9 2016
Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival, Coventry
PLACE WASTE DISSENT
OCT 5 – OCT 8 2016
collage & text from Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015),
readings/film screening of Life In The Fast Lane: The No M11 Story (dir: Neil Goodwin, Mayyasa Al-Malazi) & Blight (John Smith/Jocelyn Pook)
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
PLACE WASTE DISSENT
NOV 10 – DEC 12 2015
collage & text featured in Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015) & book launch
The Arts House, Bristol
BOURNEMOUTH EMERGING ARTS FRINGE
OCT 27 – OCT 31 2015
line & mass w/SIX Gallery artists
Meyrick Hall
Bournemouth
2024
Feb 16: Maja Torjussen mun / sun and Lydia Hounat Notes of a Mongrel’s DNA double book launch event at The Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1DH w/Lydia Hounat, Martin Wakefield, Iris Colomb, David Spittle, Julia Rose Lewis & Cameron Wade
March 23: London Rich Mix Arts Centre 7pm doors : 7.30pm start - Free Entry 35-47 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA With readings and performances by SJ Fowler, Jules Sprake, Laura Davis, Julia Rose Lewis, Stephen Sunderland, Paul Hawkins, Jessica Pritchard, Oscar Rodriguez, Tereza Stehlikova and more to be announced.
June 22: Sarer Scotthorne's Suggested Breathing launch w/Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger & Paul Hawkins at The Blue Room, Bristol BS6 5BY
June 26: European Poetry Festival 2024 - Swedish Poetry Celebration at One Hundred Years Gallery, London with Ida Börjel and Landa wo / Francis de Lima / SJ Fowler and Benedict Taylor / Chiara Ambrosio and Victor Rees / Iavor Lubomirov and Ed Hadfield / Helene Proißl and Matt Martin / Lucija Rosc and Patrick Cosgrove / Paul Hawkins and Julia Rose Lewis / John Mateer / Anna Ayanoglou / Thomas Ballhausen
Dec 5: Writers Kingston Event #83 : Sound Poetry and Sonic Literature at The Poetry Society Cafe
7pm - Free Entry The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street London, Covent Garden. London WC2H 9BX poetrysociety.org.uk/venue/poetry-cafe-2/ A night celebrating the potential of the human voice and live literature, in the grand tradition of Sound Poetry, Noise Making, Mouth Music and Improvised Vocalisation, all performed as new duets. With duet sound poetry / sonic literature performances by Phil Minton and Steven J Fowler / Serena Braida and Vilde Bjerke Torset / Will Rene and Emily Wood / Sylee Gore and Rushika Wick / Patrick Cosgrove and Benedict Taylor / Bob T Bright and Cameron Wade / Paul Hawkins and Julia Rose Lewis / Michael O’Mahony and Milo Thesiger-Meacham / Mischa Foster Poole and David Spittle.
2023
Jan 29: POEM BRUT at One Hundred Years Gallery, London E2 3.30pm, free Entry w/Laura Davis, Felix McNamara, Julia Rose Lewis, Paul Hawkins, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, Bob T Bright, SJ Fowler, Yoshiki Ukai and Mark Rutter alongside the launch of “Biros II” by Patrick Cosgrove from Hesterglock Press & more tba
Mar 17 - Mar 19
Postcards From Mental States
Paper & Ink Festival 2023 Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN
Gas Lips & Stingbean from Postcards From Mental States by Julia Lewis & Paul Hawkins will be shown as part of the Living With Other People anthology (Corrupted Press) in a large Group Exhibition
March 31: Book Launch of Postcards From Mental States by Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins (Hesterglock Press)
MAY 6: NETHERLANDS POETRY CELEBRATION 19:30, FREE ENTRY AT RICH MIX LONDON E1 6LA w/MARIA BARNAS & AGNIESZKA STUDZINSKA, SASJA JANSSEN & PRUDENCE CHAMBERLAIN-BUSSEY, LORI WIKE & ANTHONY ETHERIN, WILL RENE & VICTOR REES, SJ FOWLER & NICK ROTH, MARK COVERDALE & JULIA ROSE LEWIS, TATIANA FAIA & SIMONA NASTAC ONDŘEJ MACL & PAUL HAWKINS. CURATED BY SJ FOWLER. 'PART OF NEW DUTCH WRITING, PRESENTED BY THE DUTCH FOUNDATION FOR LITERATURE' for the EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2023
June 1 - June 31 2023
KAPWA: POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL LANDSCAPES
at North Fork Arts Projects, The Refugee Arts Centre, St Helena, CA USA. A group exhibition featuring Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Ulysses Duterte, Jr., Paul Hawkins, Geoff Huth, harry k stammer, Julia Rose Lewis, Michelangelo Mayo, April Milszeski, Anne Murray, and Phyllis Shaw. Curated by Eileen Tabios, take a look here . . . The Refugee Arts Centre is possibly the thinest gallery in the world.
JUNE 3: POEM BRUT AT OPEN EALING UNIT 14, SCHOOL LANE, DICKENS YARD LONDON W5 2TD W/AGATA MASLOWSKA, SAFIA KAMEL, JULIA ROSE LEWIS, RONA LUO, PAUL HAWKINS, MICHAEL SUTTON, DAN POWER, CAMERON WADE, MATT SOKULSKY, MARK RUTTER, RICHARD MARSHALL PLUS THE POPOGROU COLLECTIVE (VICKI KAYE, BEV FRYDMAN, SIMON TYRRELL, BOB T BRIGHT). THIS EVENT WILL ALSO SEE THE LAUNCH OF SJ FOWLER’S ‘RECENTLY ATTRACTED REALITY INFLUENCERS’ FROM OVERGROUND UNDERGROUND PRESS.
2022
Jan 19 - Feb 3: Linda Parr’s Postcards for Perec is now installed in The Street Gallery at the Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University. I’ve a piece of work on this touring group exhibition.
Feb 1 - March 15 2022 - ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION I’m the featured artist in the Bower Ashton Library showcase at the Centre For Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK - for details on the exhibition, open daily 9 - 5pm, download the latest Book Arts Newsletter here
Feb 23: Bill Drummond conducted a Forty Minute Interview with me at Eachwhat Studio, #bristol
March 10: Centre For Print Research Print in Conversation with Angie Butler and Paul Hawkins in the Print/Publishing space, C Block, Bower Ashton campus, UWE, Bristol, 12.30-1.15. Publishing, Poem Brut, Eachwhat Industries and much more. Free, all welcome.
March 26 - April 27: Holding Patterns w/ Julia Rose-Lewis print exhibition at Eachwhat Studio
April 2: Holding Patterns book launch w/Julia Rose-Lewis, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Andres Anwandtner & Paul Hawkins
June 4: HANDSFREE book preview & print exhibition opening event w/Wakefield & Modem, Sarer Scotthorne, Emma Filtness, Stephen Sunderland, Nic Stringer, Dan Power, Chris Boyland, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Richard Biddle & James Knight FREE 16:30
2021
Jan 27: Insect Sleep Under Birdsong: A collaboration between visual artist/poet Paul Hawkins and poet/sound artist Peter Jaeger commissioned by Writers Centre Kingston - new poetry-films commissioned in Covid-19 Lockdown in lieu of their normal new years events program.
June 10: 19:00 A City of London Poem Brut event w/Saradha Soobrayen, Richard Marshall, Susie Campbell, Martin Wakefield, Chris Kerr, Dan Power, Denise Bonetti & more TBA
June 11: 16:00 - A Poem Brut event by the Thames in Kingston w/Bob Bright, Julia Lewis, Jacqui Ennis Cole, Saradha Soobrayen, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove & more TBA
June 17: Photo Poetry SURFACES exhibition opening night of exhibition and catalogue launch part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021 - a Zoom event starting at 19:00 BST with a Panel Discussion with Chris McCabe, Jon Nicholls, Federica Chiocchetti & David Solo & Performances/Discussion with Liz Berry / Tom Hicks, Astra Papachristodoulou, James Knight, Laurent Chevalier, SJ Fowler, Sarah Cave / Dragana Jurisic, Paul Hawkins & Vik Shirley more info
June 17 - present: Photo Poetry SURFACES online group exhibition - part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021. featuring works by Liz Berry / Tom Hicks, Jamila Lyiscott / Laurent Chevalier, Vik Shirley, Silje Ree, James Knight, Astra Papachristodoulou, Sarah Cave / Dragana Jurisic, Amak Mahmoodian, Sophie Herxheimer / Chris McCabe, Paul Hawkins & SJ Fowler / Bård Torgersen. Curated by David Solo, Astra Papachristodoulou & Paul Hawkins. ︎︎︎more info
July 1 - Aug 31: Postcards for Perec at UWE, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. In the 40th anniversary of the passing of Georges Perec, new postcards have been made in response to Perec’s 1978 work Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour. I’m a contributor in this brilliant, timely group exhibition.
Aug 2: BRLSI, Bath - SJ Fowler Bastard Poems book launch event - more details tbc
Aug 14: Pre-launch of Seen as Read (KUP, 2021) anthology at Open Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14, School Lane, Dickens Yard, London W5 2TD feat. Chris Kerr, Beverley Frydman, Susie Campbell, Paul Hawkins, Vicki Kaye, Lynette Willoughby, Madelaine Culver, Martin Wakefield, Agnieszka Studzinka, Simon Tyrrell, Patrick Cosgrove and maybe David Hayward, Sylee Gore & Laura Davis more TBC
Sept 11 - Nov 11: Postcards for Perec at Winchester School of Art. In the 40th anniversary of the passing of Georges Perec, new postcards have been made in response to Perec’s 1978 work Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour. I’m a contributor in this brilliant, timely group exhibition.
Oct 6: NO POETRY DAY more details
Oct 12: Lunchtime Poetry Without Words event at UWE, Bower Ashton library 12.00–1.00: find out about Poem Brut and Poetry Without Words artists and their work with film screening and commentary. Part of The Printed Poetry Symposium. Free.
Oct 15: Poem Brut in Bristol The second launch of SJ Fowler’s ‘Bastard Poems’ from Steel Incisors Press and ‘25 poems’ from AB Press / Nomad Letterpress at 18:30 - 20:45 at EACHWHAT INDUSTRIES STUDIO, Unit 18, The Broadwalk Centre, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2Q. With readings and performances from Paul Hawkins, James Knight, Vicki Kaye, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Dominic Jaeckle, Angie Butler, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, SJ Fowler, Tom Weir, Aaron Kent, Martin Wakefield and more. An extraordinary group of poets, writers and artists, all based in the Bristol area region, present an evening of new experimental literary performance works, made for the night. A true range of what’s possible in contemporary British-based poetry will celebrate collage, liveness and textual play. Free entry with a booktable with books for sale
Oct 19: Writers Kingston event #44
The Seen as Read Anthology Launch with readings and performances by Chris Kerr, Rushika Wick, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, Richard Biddle, Mikael Buck, Paul Hawkins, Vicki Kaye, Martin Wakefield, SJ Fowler. 7pm start in the Town House Building : Courtyard Venue55-59 Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE
Enter the building and take a right at the front desk. Ask at reception for Writers Kingston event - Entrance Free
Nov 9: New book launches at POEM BRUT in Kingston, The Townhouse Courtyard, Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, UK - celebrating new books by Chris Kerr, Patrick Cosgrove & Martin Wakefield, with much more to be announced
Nov 28: Beir Bua Press published ︎︎︎ Holding Patterns a selection of a place/space collaborative project with Julia Rose Lewis. Get a copyhere
Dec 4: NEW AGENTS PRINT EXHIBITION opening feat. breadtrain, Steve Ryan, Super Art Asset Collective, Anon Holmes, OPTIKA, infanzia al peperoncino at Eachwhat Industries Studio, Bristol until Jan 17 2022
Dec 10: Beir Bua Press book launches w/Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins, JP Seabright, Templeton Moss & Andrew Rihn on Zoom at 8pm, register for tickets here
2020
Jan 29: Temporary Spaces exhibition launch night featuring music and performances from some of the contributing poets involved in the show. Contributing artists and poets include Sarah Dawson, Paul Hawkins, Silje Ree, Claire Collison, Stephen Emmerson, James Knight, Michelle Penn, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou and Nic Stringer. FREE entry/£3 suggested donation w/chance to buy a unique exhibition catalogue published by Pamenar Press
Feb 22: Dostoyevsky Wannabe special launch event for SJ Fowler’s I will show you the life of the mind (On prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020) at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, London. Featuring these DW authors; SJ Fowler, Christodoulos Makris, Nadia de Vries, Dominic Jaeckle, Andrew Hodgson, James Davies, Jessica Sequeir, Paul Hawkins, Colin Herd & Russell Bennetts
Feb 23: launch event for SJ Fowler’s I will show you the life of the mind (On prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020) w/ Nadia de Vries, Dominic Jaeckle, Andrew Hodgson, Jessica Sequeira, Christodoulos Makris, Paul Hawkins, Colin Herd, SJ Fowler and Russell Bennetts at the Toriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX
May 28: Fathomsun Press curate an online launch for Pomes & Joys - a celebratory anthology of poetry & essays for Anna Mendelssohn starts 7pm. This anthology features contributions from Charlie Baylis, Sara Crangle, Stephen Emmerson, Joey Frances, Callie Gardner, Paul Hawkins, Linda Kemp, Lotte L.S., Tom Snarsky, Vicky Sparrow, and Florence Uniacke. Published on 18th May 2020 as a PDF // 45 pp, all proceeds donated to the Estate of Anna Mendelssohn BUY a copy
Aug 15 - Sept 5: NeoptiCo Collectiv launch exhibition + book launch Astropolis (Hesterglock Press, expanded 2nd edition) by Astra Papachristodoulou at Poem Atlas more details TBA curated by Astra Papachristodoulou & Paul Hawkins
Oct 30 – Nov 1: Prague Microfestival 2020 Online INTERNATIONAL WRITING, ART, FILM, THEORY & PERFORMANCE – performing were: Nina Dragičević, Robin Mackay, Loretta Lau, Germán Sierra, Susan Tomaselli, John Trefry, Nataša Velikonja, Louis Armand, Jo Blin, Richard Makin, Yi Wei, Paul Hawkins, Sheila Mannix, Richard Marshall, Dragana Mokan, Márk Horváth, The Flatmates, Orkida Bracula, Valen Sandoval, Danny Huppatz, Simone Hutchinson, Artis Ostups, Kira Pietrek, Michael Rowland, Interior Ministry, Barry Wan, Adam Lovasz, Diffractions Collective, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling, Aleš Čermák, Sarer Scotthorne, Andrew J. Wilt, Roksan Mandel, Filip Pastula, Tomáš Hatala, Mark Divo, M.S. Mekibes, Blood, Love & Rhetoric, Phillip O’Neil, Tyko Say, Eli Anders, adO/Aptive, Daniel Hüttler, Márió Z. Nemez, Zsolt Miklósvögi, Cam Deas, The Syndicate & includes the launch of Monument by John Kinsella & Louis Armand (Hesterglock Press, 2020) full online programme here
Dec 16: The Weird Folds (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020) online launch 8.00pm UK
2019
Feb 20: Camarade at The Museum of Futures – collaborative readings w/Sarah Dawson & Astra Papachristodoulou, Olga Kolesnikova & Yvonne Litschel, Lisa Kiew & Jacquelin Ennis Cole, Paul Hawkins & Martin Wakefield, Han Smith & Iris Colomb, Karen Sandhu & Vilde Valerie, Bjerke Torset, Mark Chamberlain & Ruby Wroe, Emilee Moyce & Joe Turrent, Susie Campbell. Plus readings from Julia Rose Lewis, Helena Artus, Marcia Knight Latter celebrating the launch of their Sampson Low Poetry Pamphlets.
March 15: ANATHEMA – experimental poetry in Bristol event w/ Pascal O’Loughlin, Sarah Cave , Paul Hawkins & James Knight £3 @ Storysmith Books, Bristol
April 25: Making Connections Conference – taking part in roundtable discussion panel & hack hour LCC, Elephant & Castle, London
June 20: original plus DUB anthology launch – The Pelican, Peckham, London w/Christian Patracchini, Richard Skinner, Iris Colomb, Sally-Shakti Willow, Dolly Turing, Paul Hawkins, Roy McFarlane, Lizzy Turner, Steven Mooney, Neil Sparkes, Rishi Dastidar, Patrick Davidson Roberts & Astrid Alben more tbc
July 8: An invisible poetry : SJ Fowler and Poet’s Brut Launch event for a group show, featuring Chris McCabe, Karen Sandhu, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou, Patrick Cosgrove, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset and Paul Hawkins, at the Poetry Society Cafe, London
July 1 – Aug 31: An invisible poetry : SJ Fowler and Poet’s Brut Exhibition at The Poetry Society’s Cafe : group show, featuring Chris McCabe, Karen Sandhu, Simon Tyrrell, Astra Papachristodoulou, Patrick Cosgrove, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset and Paul Hawkins.
July 13: Poem Brut at Rich Mix #12, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 also the launch of Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit by SJ Fowler – Lisa Kiew, Patrick Cosgrove, Mischa Foster Poole, Harry Man, Vilde Valerie Vilde Torset, Paul Hawkins, Simon Tyrrell, Michael O’Mahony, SJ Fowler, Rushika Rush, Maria Sledmere and more poet-artists to be announced soon
July 25: Unfinished Memmoirs of a Hypocrit book launch II + Hesterglock/Prote(s)xt Press event at the Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London EC1 w/performances & readings from SJ Fowler, Pascal O’Loughlin, James Caley, Katy Wareham Morris, David Turner, Matthew Turner, James Knight & Sally-Shakti Willow
July 25 – 28: WOMAD Festival Paul Hawkins & Neil Sparkes plus special guests LIVE on RADIO WOMAD during the World of Music, Arts & Dance at Malmesbury, Wilts, UK. To promote our recent ground-breaking anthology original plus DUB Paul & Neil will be talking about the dub remix anthology & reading work with Snazzback ‘s Myke Vince on water cooler & pandero plus Run Logan Run‘s Andrew Neil Hayes on sax.
Oct 4: Penteract Press Book launch w/ Anthony Etherin, Mary Frances, James Knight, Mark Saltveit, Claudia Danierie, myself & more TBC at The Swan, Cheltenham, 7pm
Nov 9: Zugunruhe by Martin Wakefield to be launched as part of Poem Brut at Rich Mix #6, London w/new performances/commissions by Kathy Pendrill, Richard Marshall, Jacqueline Ennis Cole, Khaled Hakim, Lizzy Turner, Paul Hawkins, Martin Wakefield, Mischa Foster Poole, Saradha Soobrayen and Lisa Alexander.… from 7pm, free entry
Nov 30: C R A S H a new experimental poetry event feat. Vik Shirley, Matt Haigh, Sarah Cave, James Knight & Paul Hawkins The Flute & Tankard, Cardiff, 19.30 free entry
2018
Jan 13: HARD TO READ – Collected Paint Poems, Pansemia, Cinematic Drawings and Logograms of SJ FOWLER. A special evening performance to launch SJ Fowler’s Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) w/ Featuring new performances by Paul Hawkins, Imogen Reid, Christian Patracchini, Patrick Cosgrove, Mischa Foster Poole, SJ Fowler and more. Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Feb 22 to March 21: VISUAL POETRY EXHIBITION 2018: SCRIBBLING AND SCRAWLING at MUSEUM OF FUTURES, 117 Brighton Rd, Surbiton KT6 5NJ. Featuring works by Alan Boyce, Daniele Pantano, Paul Hawkins, Julia Rose Lewis & many more tba. Curated by Molly Bergin, Yvonne Litschel, Shelisha Johnson, Silje Ree, Vilde Torset & SJ Fowler
March 7: launch of Cocktail Kafkaine by Mustapha Benfodil / Joe Ford (trans.) Mustapha Benfodil reading & in conversation at The Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Room: Parkinson SR (1.08) Time: 17:00-19:00. Published by Hesterglock Press
March 17: Poem Brut at Rich Mix II 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA. Featuring new work from Chrissy Williams, Lavinia Singer, Matvei Yankelevich, Julia Rose Lewis, Julia Schuster, Olga Moskvina, Oliver Mayeux, Mischa Foster Poole, Ruhi Parmar Amin, Andre Bagoo and more. The event will also mark the launch of a new #poembrut publication: hiromi suzuki’s logbook, published by Hesterglock Press. The event is free, 7pm for a 7.30pm start
April 21: Non-normative Poetry Bookfair for presses publishing work that pushes through boundaries of the normal, whether that’s sociopolitical normal, gender norms, or formal norms of poetry. Inc. Crater, Veer, Contraband, London Materials/Splinter, Carnaval Press, Knives, Forks and Spoons, Spanner, Tipped Press, homebakedbooks, Hesterglock, Zarf, Stinky Bear Press, Singing Apple Press, Lumin Journal, Great Works, Johan de Wit, Shearsman & more tbc. There are readings every hour on the hour. Starts 12 noon at T.Chances 399 High Road, N17 6QN London, UK
April 26 – July 1: National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London artwork of mine fragiles (07) is included in the world’s first Instagram poetry exhibition, showcasing the best of over 1,000 Instapoetry submissions more info
April 28: Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Bristol & Lou Ham book launch at Rough Trade Records, Bristol 2.30pm FREE with Lizzy Turner, Clive Birnie, Vik Shirley, David Turner, Sarer Scotthorne & me & I’ll be launching Lou Ham:RAS more details here
May 5: Hesterglock / Poem Brut @ Spike Island A Spike Island Open Studios event with pop-up art exhibits, the making of a communal cut-up art poem, films, mass participation readings, interactions, performances, books for sale. Curated by Paul Hawkins feat. Sarer Scotthorne / Christian Patracchini / Isadora Vibes / David Turner / Vik Shirley / Peter Jaeger / Camilla Nelson / Clive Birnie / Lizzy Turner / Liz Zumin / Paul Hawkins. Spike Island 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX.1.30 – 5.00 FREE ENTRY
June 6: Poem Brut at National Poetry Library Featuring new work from Maja Jantar, Saradha Soobrayen, Chrissy Williams, Paul Hawkins, Patrick Cosgrove, SJ Fowler and more. Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Free entry – 7pm More info
September 27: DW at Housmans Radical Bookshop Readings by Dostoyevsky Wannabe authors w/Rosie Snajdr, Bertie Marshall, Lara Alonso Corona & Paul Hawkins. 19.00 £3 – Housmans Radical Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9DX
Nov 10: Poem Brut at Rich Mix new work from Susanna Crossman, Nathan Walker, Sarah Dawson, Peter Surkov, Ryan Mihaly & Karolina Zapal, Martin Wakefield, Arturo Desimone, Alban Low & Kevin Acott, Dovydas Laurinaitis. James Caley & Abi Palmer. PLUS the launch of the softcover edition of Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) by SJ Fowler & James Caley’s 4 Steps from the Wire (Prote(s)xt). Copies will, naturally, be on sale – from 7pm – free entry Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
November 22: the ZENO PRESS launch of FELT – AESTHETICS OF GREY at LOUIE LOUIE 347 Walworth Road, London SE17 2AL – w/ readings from FELT contributors Ansgar Allen, Paul Hawkins, Richard Webb & Rob Miller and readings by Zeno Magazine contributors Daniel Fraser, Matthew Turner & Andrew Milward. 20.00, free entry
2017
Feb 25: #Anathema #1 a new reading series for experimental writing in Bristol, curated by Moot Press + Hesterglock Press + Sad Press w/JR Carpenter, Felix Bazalgette, Rowan Evans, Sarah Hayden, Lila Matsumoto, paul hawkins, Camilla Nelson & Tony White BOOK TABLE + DRINKS // 7.00 for 7.30pm start // ALL WELCOME @ Hamilton House, 80, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
March 31: #Anathema #2 18:30 The Light Room at the Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA w/ Redell Olsen, Iain Morrison, Anne-Laure Coxham, nick-e melville, [Sub]Atomic / Sally-Shakti Willow & Joe Evans entry by donation
April 6: Arnolfini, Bristol 19:00 free, The launch of SJ Fowler’s latest poetry collection ‘The Guide to Being Bear Aware’ from Bristol-based Shearsman Books, featuring performances and readings from Fowler and guest readers John Hall, Holly Corfield Carr, Paul Hawkins, Phil Owen & more to be announced more info here
May 30: The Square Club, Bristol Erbacce Press w/Sarer Scotthorne, Matt Duggan, Paul Hawkins, Sam Smith & Monica Kostera at 15 Berkeley Square, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1HB where a mass audience reading of Place Waste Dissent was recorded
June 21-24: diisonance exhibition of collaborative prote(s)xt art by Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
June 23 14:00 – 16:30 cost £5 ltd. places – Paul Hawkins & Rowan Evans running a workshop on creating experimental collaborative poetry – all attending will be invited to read their new work at the evening event, and included in Diisonance to be published by Hesterglock Press. contact Paul to book a place and for more info: hesterglock at gmail dot com
June 23 Diisonance – 18.30 experimental collaborative poetry & performance at Bank Street Arts – Sarer Scotthorne, Miggy Angel, Rowan Evans, Leire Barrera, Dan Eltringham, Linda Kemp, Roy McFarlane, Paul Hawkins & Emteaz Hussain. Free entry
Sept 1 – 30: diisonance exhibition @ The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 collaborative artworks: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins
Sept 8: Diisonance book launch w/ special guest Gary Budden, Sarer Scotthorne, Roy McFarlane, Tony White & Paul Hawkins. Entry by donation. The Gallery Cafe, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London
September 29: hesterglock press // caplet collaboration @ The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 poetry & dialogue w/ Jonathan Mann, Jude Cowan Montague, Matti Spence, Luna Montenegro, Iris Colomb & Paul Hawkins + improvised sounds from The Happy Couple
November 17: The 15th Ars Poetica International Poetry Festival at the A4 Space for Contemporary Culture / Karpatská 2, Bratislava feat. 6pm / WOW! A theatrical play with poetry present in full force… Premiere of the English version, by the Debris company (SK) Voiceover Ron Padgett (USA) poetry from Eleni Cay (SK/GB), Paul Hawkins (GB), Aurélia Lassaque (FR), Petr Borkovec (CZ) & Zsuzsa Emese Csobánka(HU) & special guest of the night: Titilope Sonuga (CAN/NE) spoken word performance more details here Ars Poetica
October 11: Satellite of Love inc. Jude Cowan Montague, Paul Hawkins and more tbc 8.15pm at The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
November 24: Hesterglock | Moot | Sad co-curate ANATHEMA 10 experimental poetry & performance w/ Carrie Etter, Jonathan Mulcahy, Meghan McKeague, Justin Katko & Lucy Beynon @ the Arnolfini, Bristol
November 25: Poem Brut, featuring new work from Harry Man, Imogen Reid, Stephen Emmerson, Hiromi Suzuki, Lotje Sodderland, Paul Hawkins, Chloe Spicer, Kate Wakeling and more. The event will also be the launch of SJ Fowler’s book I fear my best work behind me with Stranger Press. The event is free, doors at 7pm. Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA more tbc
December 15: Hesterglock | Moot | Sad co-curate ANATHEMA 11 experimental poetry & performance w/ Rhys Trimble, Iris Colomb, Amy McAuley more tbc 6.30pm @ the Arnolfini, Bristol.
2016
Feb 27: Resonance FM The News Agents 2:30pm – 3:30pm. Paul hawkins on The News Agents show on eclectic arts radio Resonance FM again talking about radical housing, squatting, protest as well as reading from my recent Influx Press book Place Waste Dissent. Resonance FM is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayerand live streamed to the rest of the world. Realised by a dedicated community of volunteer engineers and programme-makers, Resonance offers over 100 creative broadcast series every week featuring local and international artists, makers and experts. You can listen in here
March 9: Satellite of Love w/Sarer Scotthorne/Matt Duggan/Malaika Kegode/Wendy Young/Grace Palmer/Angela Brooks/Ellie Burmistre/Helen Sheppard/Omar Makessa 8.15pm at The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
March 13: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/Paul Hawkins & more 8.30 at the Bristol Fringe Cafe 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
March 17 – April 9: Place Waste Dissent at End||Begin 32 City Arcade, Coventry, CV1 3HW. The highly anticipated group show of Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival, will showcase a selection of fifteen fine artists from across the UK who the Collective//Pod have worked with over the last 18 months. I’m proud to have an early draft manuscript of my Influx Press experimental poetry collage cut-up book Place Waste Dissent on exhibit. The manuscript was pasted and cut-up into a hand-made book by Clara Quinion, and I read from it at many events before the book was edited and then published in November 2015. End||Begin is co-curated by Collective//Pod members professional artist Martin Green and emerging artist Colin Oddy.
March 19: Servant Drone launch, Gato Vadio, Rua do Rosário, 281 4050-525 Porto 6pm :: Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins. Made possible by the generous support of the Porto/Bristol Association and are fully free
March 23: Page and Performance, w/Paul Hawkins & more @The Cross Hands, Fishponds Bristol 8pm free
March 25: Servant Drone launch, Bloom & Curll Bookshop, 72 Colston Street Bristol BS1 5BB 6.30pm :: Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne. Made possible by the generous support of the Porto/Bristol Association and are fully free
March 26: InZine #5 The Pod, Coventry CV1 4AE 12 – 5pm Paul Hawkins + Sarer Scotthorne + Dan Duggan + Zine Fest/film/exhibition – part of Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival
April 10: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/Paul Hawkins & more 8.30pm at the Bristol Fringe Cafe, 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
May 11: Satellite of Love w/ Paul Hawkins & more 8.15pm The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road Bristol BS5 6DP
May 29: SPEL alt poetry and acoustic music w/ Paul Hawkins & more 8.30pm at the Bristol Fringe Cafe, 32 Princess Victoria St Bristol, free
June 8: Satellite of Love Paul Hawkins & more 8.15pm The Greenbank Pub 57 Bellevue Road BS5 6DP fund raiser forBristol Refugee Rights
June 22: Riot, Resistance & The Contested Future 7:30pm an evening of spoken-word, film & discussion in response to Jimmy Cauty’s #ADPRiotTour installation with poets Paul Hawkins, Sam Berkson, a short screening from Riots Reframed, Sheila Menon from #heathrow13, Jimmy Cauty, L-13‘s Steve Lowe and me at Unit 6, Imperial Works, Fountayne Road, London N15 4QL free
July 28: Speech Therapy w/Paul Hawkins 7 more + open mic @ The Chameleon Arts Cafe, 17 Angel Row, Nottingham, NG1 6HL, free 7.30pm
September 24: Bristol Poetry Festival w/Erbacce press poets Sarer Scotthorne, Paul Hawkins & more 7:00pm at Bloom & Curll Bookshop, 72 Colston Street, Bristol. Entry: buy a book from Bloom & Curll
August 6: Enemies Project, Paul Hawkins & Lucy English + many more @ Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN 01225 312084 7.00pm doors for a 7.30pm start. Entrance free
October 1: w/Run Logan Run, Kit Williams Fergradoe, Sarer Scotthorne, Spindle Ensemble & Paul Hawkins w/ Rowan Evans at The Church of St John the Baptist, Broad Street Bristol BS1 2EZ 7:30 – 11pm, £5.00 click here: limited to 50, booking essential refreshments by Nourish Me. This event is part of the Bristol Poetry Festival
Oct 6: Bank Street Arts 6pm – 8pm free entry – Paul Hawkins reading from Place Waste Dissent and screening Blight, a film by John Smith with the soundtrack by Jocelyn Pook
October 5 – 8: Place Waste Dissent Exhibition, daily 11am – 4pm free at Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS. An exhibition of text & prints by Paul Hawkins Steve Ryan from the Influx Press book Place Waste Dissent, there will also be readings from Place Waste Dissent and film screenings of Life In The Fast Lane: The No M11 Story (dir: Neil Goodwin, Mayyasa Al-Malazi) & Blight (John Smith/Jocelyn Pook)
November 19: Gullivers Lounge, Manchester Launch of The Secret of Good Posture (Team Trident Press 2016) w/Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne, Dan Eltringham & Pippa Nayer £3 @ 7:30pm
October 28: Bristol Festival of Literature w/Erbacce Press poets 7:30pm at The Phoenix Cafe, All Saints Street, Broadmead, Bristol BS1 2LZ
November 25: Bloom & Curll Books, Bristol Launch of The Secret of Good Posture w/Paul Hawkins & Rowan Evans 7:30pm
2015
Jan 21: The Twisted Teapot Boscombe w/ Jonny Fluffypunk, Markie Burnhope, Paul Hawkins, Myriam San Marco, Sarer Scotthorne, Julia Boore & Barbara Donne – Bosc:Rev Issue 3 launch
March 21: Resonance FM guest on The News Agents show, w/Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne
Feb 21: Mr Wolf’s Bristol w/Schoolboy’s Death Trio, Paul Hawkins & more
June 26: Mahu Influx at The Hardy Tree Gallery, Kings Cross, London. 7.30pm free entry
A night of eclectic readings from Influx writers and editors, taking in New York stories from Linda Mannheim, experimental squat poetry from Paul Hawkins, tales of light invading the dark by Clare Fisher, plus readings from Influx editors Kit Caless and Gary Budden
August 20: The Inspire Bar, Coventry Hesterglock Press launch of Margaret Thatcher’s Museum by Antony Owen w/Antony Owen, Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne
September 5: Vogue Fabrics, Dalston London: MAINTENANT 9: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART UK launch w/Paul Hawkins & many more
Inzine Fest IV at The Pod in Coventry with Antony Owen, Paul Hawkins, Thomas MacColl, Sarer Scotthorne, Simone Estridge, Adam Steiner + more. Free
Oct 29 – Nov 21: Temple Church Bristol Sanctum
Paul hawkins will be doing five solo performances; four reading Place Waste Dissent from cover to cover and the fifth, a red-eye 2 hour marathon, reading from Claremont Road, Contumacy, Place Waste Dissent and Servant Drone. This autumn, a remarkable structure is rising up from within the bombed out remains of Temple Church in Bristol. For 24 days, this 14th century site is being transformed into an intimate gathering place in which to hear the city like never before. Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates was invited by Bristol arts producer, Situations, to create his first public project in the UK as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The artist has sought out discarded and dormant materials from former places of labour and religious devotion across Bristol to build an intimate and distinctive temporary structure at Temple Church. From 6pm on Thursday 29th October, Sanctum will host a continuous programme of sound over 552 hours until Saturday 21st November, sustained by performers, musicians and bands, spoken word artists and the visiting casts of theatre productions in Bristol.
Oct 27 – 30: Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe at Meyrick Hall, Bournemouth 12.00 – 4.00pm daily SIX Gallery are exhibiting prints of collage/text from Paul Hawkins’ Influx Press collection Place Waste Dissent as part of their Line & Mass series, along with other work including Matthew Shaw – Alchemical Figure, Beatriz Brooks – A Castle for the Inner Child, Adam Popli – Asian Osmosis. Performances include: Flights of the Imagination, J.U.D.I.T.H by Marja Christians and DeCoda by David Nock. FREE.
Nov 10 – Dec 12: Place Waste Dissent Exhibition at The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU
an exhibition of art & text featured in the collection more info
Nov 21: 7.30pm Influx Press Bristol book launch at The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU more info‘Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road. Using the voices of Dolly Watson and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.’ Join us at The Arts House celebrating the publication of ‘Place Waste Dissent’ and an accompanying month-long exhibition of art and text featured in the collection, with readings, a short film screening and a Q&A with the author. w/Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne & Sam Berkson
Dec 5: 7.00pm Influx Press Book Launch at the Brick Lane Bookshop 166, Brick Lane, London E1 6RU more info Join Influx Press at Brick Lane Bookshop celebrating the publication of our new title, ‘Place Waste Dissent’ by Paul Hawkins. Reading are: Paul Hawkins, Sarer Scotthorne, George F & Lucy Furlong. The event is FREE!! 7pm Signed books on sale on the night.
2014
Jan 27 – Feb 1: SIX Gallery Roumelia Lane Boscombe w/Andrew McCutchion (The Sidemen) curating Unprepared Piano
Feburary 28: SIX Gallery, Roumelia Lane, Boscombe Bournemouth: launch of Paul Hawkins’ Claremont Road pamphlet w/Steve Rushden, Markie Burnhope & Sarer Scotthorne
March: Split collaboration w/Mark Lloyd
March 28: The Hydra Bookshop, Bristol w/Paul Hawkins & more
April 25: The Hydra Bookshop, Bristol w/Paul Hawkins & more
May 1: The Horse Hospital, London International Launch of Cut UP! Anthology w/Anne Pigalle, A.D. Hitchin, Nina Antonia, Billy Chainsaw, Paul Hawkins & Matthew Levi Stevens
May 2 & 3: Vita Nova Theatre, Roumelia Lane Boscombe Bournemouth performing w/Scott Lavene as Gunshot
May 31: The Saboteur Awards The Jericho Tavern Oxford with Lucy Ayrton, Tina Sederholm, Dan Holloway, Rose Drew, Florence O’Mahoney, Emily Cleaver, Thomas McColl, Lyndsay Waller-Wilkinson, Nichola Deane, David Clarke, John Clegg, Andrew Wynn Owen, Jacqueline Saphra, Ashley Stokes, Kate Garrett, May-Lan Tan, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Tim Wells, Rowena Knight, Paul Hawkins, Kirsten Irving, Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, Jenni Pascoe, Fay Roberts & Steve Nash
October 25: Camaradefest II at Rich Mix Arts Centre London: 100 poets in collaborative performances inc. Paul Hawkins with Mali Clements
2013
May 18: Brighton Fringe Festival as a member of The Sidemen (Paul Hawkins & Andrew McCutchion)
July 15 – 17: MIX 2 DIGITAL TEXT ON SCREENS BATH SPA UNIVERSITY, CORSHAM COURT CAMPUS 15TH-17TH JULY 2013
running Workshop 4: Transmedia Activism with Donna Hancox, Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, Bath Spa University & poet Paul Hawkins presenting locative storytelling project, Untold Boscombe
August 16: w/Paul Hawkins, Jane Cartwright & more The Shelley Theatre, Boscombe Bournemouth
Sept 13 & 14: Boscombe Fringe Festival w/ Flea – Paul Hawkins / St Anne’s – Jane Cartwright / PAUSE. PLEASE. REWIND THE TAPE – Gail Cecil/ 612 Media / The Fridge – Simon McCormack & more at Vita Nova, Roumelia Lane, Boscombe
Oct 5: Performance of Flea on Hope FM w/Paul Hawkins & more
December 13: live improvised performance of Boscombe Suite Boscombe at The Friends Meeting House Boscombe BH5 1AH The Music Room Band + w/Paul Hawkins & more
2012
July 2: With One Voice at The Royal Opera House – below a behind-the-scenes documentary about With One Voice – a performance showcase of 300 people who had experienced homelessness at the Royal Opera House on 2 July 2012. Part of the London 2012 Festival and in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Homeless Link, this was the first offical platform for homeless people in Olympic history. For more info visit with1voice.org.uk
1979 – 2012
countless gigs in UK & Europe as bassist &/or guitarist with The Outfits, The Zapweeds, MilkPlus, Baby Groover, Cake, Big Tuna, The Roadbreakers, Backwash, Big Laundry Bill, The Music Room Band, Kat Haskard . . .
Exhibitions
Feb - April 2023
Postcards for Perec
243 contemporary artist responses to the postcard messages of Oulipo virtuoso Georges Perec (1936-1982), curated by Linda Parr, is now being exhibited at Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park Colchester, CO4 3SQ until April 2023. Paul H. is one of those artists who responded.
Nov - Jan 14 2023
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at Uni of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma, WA 98416 USA more info here
Nov - Dec 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives
May 30 - Nov 21 2022
Wakefield & Modem HANDSFREE print exhibition at Eachwhat Studio, Bristol
Oct 30 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC group exhibition curated by Linda Parr at the Festival of Architecture and Design, Istanbul, Turkey
March 26 - April 27 2022
HOLDING PATTERNS
work from Holding Patterns (Beir Bua Press, 2021) by Julia Rose-Lewis and Paul Hawkins at Eachwhat Studio, Broadwalk Centre, Bristol BS4 2QU
Feb 1 - March 1 2022
ARTIST BOOK EXHIBITION
Paul Hawkins is the featured artist in the Bower Ashton Library showcase, UWE, Bristol, UK
Jan 19 - Feb 3 2022
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
Linda Parr’s Postcards for Perec group exhibition is on tour and (in which I have a piece of work) now installed in The Street Gallery at the Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University
Sept 5 - 19 2021
TEXT-ISLES
A Poem Atlas group exhibition at The Art park gallery, Rhodes, Greece more details here
JUNE 1 - AUG 31, 2021
POSTCARDS FOR PEREC
@ Uni of West of England, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. Artists from twenty-two countries create new postcards in response to the Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour (Perec, 1978). A slideshow featuring Postcards for Perec was shown as part of The Lost Weekend at Bristol Artists Book Event 2021, and was released on 16th April. A touring exhibition and catalogue will be forthcoming. Curated by Linda Parr.
PHOTO POETRY SURFACES
June 2021 - ongoing
online group exhibition part of the Bristol Photo Festival 2021 view HERE
JAN 20 – FEB 22, 2020
TEMPORARY SPACES
@ The Poetry Café, London. Via Poem Atlas . To purchase a unique exhibition catalogue pub. by Pamenar Press, take a look here
FEB 3 – MARCH 30, 2020
HESTERGLOCK @ NECK OF THE WOODS
a dozen or so Hesterglock Press books to view/read, along with artworks by Sarer Scotthorne & Paul Hawkins Neck of the Woods Community Cafe, St. Werburgh’s Community Centre, Bristol
FEB 18 – MARCH 10, 2020
NOTATIONAL LITERATURE, THE UNFINISHED WORK
The 4th annual Museum of Futures Exhibition
F A K E
Corrupted Poetry present performances, a pop-up exhibition and a ltd. edition pamphlet @ October Gallery, LONDON
TO BE RESCHEDULED DATE TBC
MAY 15 - JUNE 5, 2020
ESCAPISMS
online exhibition curated by Astra Papachristodoulou for Poem Atlas
JULY 16 - AUG 9, 2020
HOME
Mellom Press curate a multilingual visual poetry group exhibition
FUTURE-FACING
AUG 15 - SEPT 5, 2020
NeoptiCo Collectiv & Astra Papachristodoulou’s Astropolis (Hesterglock Press, expanded 2nd edition) launch exhibition @ Poem Atlas
SEPT 4 2020 - JAN 31 2021
Knives Forks and Spoons Press exhibition as part of the Blackpool Illuminations, installed on Blackpool’s cliff section at the North Shore
POTOS
FEB 17 – MARCH 13 2019
Explorations in handwritten poetry & analog photography @ Museum of Futures, Surbiton
INSTAPOETRY
APRIL 26 – JULY 1 2018
the world’s first Instagram poetry exhibition, showcasing the best of over 1,000 Instapoetry submission @ The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
JULY 1 – AUG 31 2019
AN INVISIBLE POETRY: SJ FOWLER AND POET’S BRUT
group exhibition @ The Poetry Café, London
POEM BRUT AT SPIKE ISLAND
MAY 5 2018
exhibition, workshop & performances
@ Spike Island, Bristol
SCRIBBLING AND SCRAWLING
FEB 22 – MARCH 21 2018
The annual Museum of Futures visual poetry exhibition @ Museum of Futures, Surbiton
HARD TO READ
JAN 13 (performance night) 2018
Collected Paint Poems, Pansemia, Cinematic Drawings and Logograms of SJ Fowler
Rich Mix Gallery, London
DIISONANCE
SEPT 1 – SEPT 30 2017
artworks/performances/book launch: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins, The Gallery Cafe, London
DIISONANCE
JUNE 21- JUNE 24 2017
SIX project space residency: artworks,
performances &
workshop: Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
END||BEGIN
MARCH 17 – APRIL 9 2016
Scratch the Surface Mental Health Arts Festival, Coventry
PLACE WASTE DISSENT
OCT 5 – OCT 8 2016
collage & text from Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015),
readings/film screening of Life In The Fast Lane: The No M11 Story (dir: Neil Goodwin, Mayyasa Al-Malazi) & Blight (John Smith/Jocelyn Pook)
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
PLACE WASTE DISSENT
NOV 10 – DEC 12 2015
collage & text featured in Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015) & book launch
The Arts House, Bristol
BOURNEMOUTH EMERGING ARTS FRINGE
OCT 27 – OCT 31 2015
line & mass w/SIX Gallery artists
Meyrick Hall
Bournemouth
Projects
April 10 - May 30 2024: We Take Writing For Granted II
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition at Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins.
May 24 - June 30 2023: We Take Writing For Granted I
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition in Bristol, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins, more details look here. Venue: Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England
Oct 06 2023: NO POETRY DAY #3 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
Postcards From Mental States is the title of a collaboration with Julia Rose Lewis which began in 2021. It was published in book form in 2023. A selection was published as Holding Patterns by the sadly-missed Beir Bua Press in 2021. A launch event & print exhibition took place at Eachwhat Studio, Bristol in April 2022. To purchase a copy of prints from the book, as well as the book LOOK HERE
Oct 06 2022: NO POETRY DAY #2 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
June - Sept 2022: Artimental - six Poem-Brutish workshops held at Eachwhat Studio.
April 2022: Man Alive! Creative Writing workshops with Knowle West Men’s Group Man Alive! at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol.
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Knowle West Media Centre & Bristol Ideas Working Class Writers Festival for more info look here
Aug 2021-Jan 2023: Eachwhat Studio a studio, exhibition, performance & community workspace in south east Bristol through HYPHA STUDIOS
Jan 2023: HANDSFREE Bob Modem’s deconstructions of Martin Wakefield’s renderings of Paul Elouard’s illustrations of Man Ray’s drawings (from Part 1 of Les Main Libres published by Steel Incisors
Oct 06 2021: NO POETRY DAY #1 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
JAN 202 INSECT SLEEP UNDER BIRDSONG: a collaboration w/Peter Jaeger commissioned by Writers Centre Kingston in lockdown
PHOTO POETRY SURFACES June - Dec 2021 part of the Bristol Photography Festival 2021, curated by David Solo, Astra Papachristodoulou and Paul Hawkins. An exhibition, launch event and catalogue
Photo Poetry Surfaces (Hesterglock Press, 2021 look here
I was proud to have work included in a remarkable celebration of the work of Georges Perec, Postcards For Perec, curated by Linda Parr. The project has been exhibited in the following spaces and places throughout the world . . .
University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, July - August 2021
University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, September 2021
Bath Spa University, The Street Gallery, January 2022
Bristol Artists’ Book Fair BABE at Bower Ashton, April 2022
Cardiff University, Special Collections Library, May 2022 - January 2023
Architecture and Design Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2022
University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Washington, USA, November - December 2022
University of Essex, Special Collections Library, Colchester, February - April 2023
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus, May 2023
Waverley Library, Sydney, Australia, July - August 2023
and featured in the following places:
Postcards for Perec featured by invitation in Bulletin No. 78 of the Association Georges Perec 2021
Postcards for Perec featured in ‘Patastrophe! #5 published by Surrealerpool, ISBN 9781910467220
Postcards for Perec reviewed in Printmaking Today, Vol 31 Winter 2022 Issue 124
Postcards for Perec, photo-essay published online in Axon Journal: Creative Explorations Text/ Page/Art 13-1 July 2023
Postcards for Perec ISBN 978-1-906501-21-1 is in the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Newberry Library, Chicago, USA
Cropped images of the postcards and the exhibitions are on Instagram, @postcards_for_perec.
A & B SIDES - Bob Modem made 13 scores. Small Things Happen read, improvised, played and recorded them in Lockdown Bristol, 2021. The A & B Sides album with the 13 scores is purchasable via Bandcamp look here more info: https://hesterglockpress.weebly.com/small-things-happen--bob-modem---a--b-sides.html
P & P (PATRICK COSGROVE & BOB MODEM) 2020 EARLY STAGE, WORK-IN-PROGRESS; A SHORT FILM / SOUNDTRACK COMMISSIONED BY POEM BRUT : SOUND(S), VERBAL & NON-VERBAL, SCRATCHES, SCRAPES, BOOMS & CLASHES, SOUND-MAPPING THOUGHTS, ELECTRICAL IMPULSES & MULCHED BRAIN-MECHANICS. DORMANT.
SECOND STEP WELLBEING COLLEGE 2020 - PRESENT RUNNING POEM BRUT WORKSHOPS FOR LEARNERS AT SECOND STEP BRISTOL’S WELLBEING COLLEGEHAVE A LOOK AT THE REMARKABLE NEW WORK MADE DURING THESE SESSIONS LOOK HERE
NEOPTICO COLLECTIV 2020 VARIOUS MEMBERS ONGOING FUTURE-FACING VISUAL POETRY
EACHWHAT VOL. 1 (KF&S Press, 2019) Poem Brut-sh collage & visual poetry
SECOND STEP BRISTOL 2020 - 2022 I CO-DEVELOPED & CO-DELIVERED A LIVED-EXPERIENCE LED TRAINING COURSE, STAYING ALIVE - SURVIVING PAIN, SUICIDE & SELF-INJURY FOR STAFF.
PLACE WASTE DISSENT & DIISONANCE 2017 ongoing collaboration with artist Steve Ryan. B & W, cut & paste, protest collage with voices [Hesterglock Press, 2019 2nd edition expanded paperback]
DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE CITIES: BRISTOL 2019 anthology of writers and poets based in Bristol for the DW Cities Series. Editor and contributor [paperback]
GO SIFT OMEN AN ERASURE OF DON PATTERSON’S GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS, 2019)
RING MORE GACK (PENTERACT PRESS 2019) IMPROVISED SOUND MAPPING CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
GAN TEANGA (WITHOUT LANGUAGE CIRCA 2018) COMPRISING OF WORKS BY PAUL HAWKINS (ALSO KNOWN AS BOB MODEM) AND OTHERS - ONGOING
LOU HAM: RACING ANTHROPOCENE STATEMENTS PAPERBACK
MOTOR-RACING/CLIMATE CHANGE CUT-UP SLOGANEERING (A DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE ORIGINAL,2018)
50 // FIFTY W/MICHAEL HARFORD - CONSTRAINED TEXT & COLLAGE COLLABORATION (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2018)
BURNING HOUSE PRESS 2018 GUEST-EDITOR, NOVEMBER. THEME: FACING UP TO THE FUTURE, TAKE A LOOK HEREFLEA 2018 - 2021 A COLLABORATIVE, ABSTRACT GRAPHIC NOVEL W/STEVE RYAN . . . DORMANT
POEM BRUT 2017 TO PRESENT - A MOVEMENT OF ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF C21ST LITERATURE: EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED INVOLVMENT AS A WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, PERFORMER, ARTIST & PUBLISHER
DIISONANCE 2017 COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS W/STEVE RYAN AS RESPONSES TO PLACE WASTE DISSENT; EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, ANTHOLOGY, ARCHIVED WEBSITE, ACE FUNDED PROJECT W/STEVE RYAN AND OTHERS (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2017)
hesterglockpress.weebly.com/hawkins--ryan---diisonance.html
ARCHIVE OF THE NOW have SOME OF MY WORK ARCHIVED ALONG WITH MANY, MANY MORE LOOK HERE
THE SECRET OF GOOD POSTURE a pair of detourned pamphlets with Bruno Neiva (Team Trident Press, 2016)
ANATHEMA 2016 - 2019 Hesterglock Press, Sad Press & Moot Press curating experimental poetry events based at the Arnolfini Centre for Modern Art, Bristol
SERVANT DRONE a collaborative experimental poetry book made with Bruno Neiva (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015
PLACE WASTE DISSENT (Influx Press, 2015) over 150 handmade pages of cut & paste protest collage from Claremont Road, London, paperback edition SOLD OUT
BOSCOMBE SUITE BOSCOMBE Dec 13, 2013 a live improvised soundtrack performance by the music room band to a film produced by Sarer Scotthorne
Split, a collaboration with artist Mark Lloyd
CLAREMONT ROAD (Erbacce press, 2013) “Self-medicated visions of entropy and sensual returns” Iain Sinclair
UNTOLD BOSCOMBE 2013-2014, locative community website
TRUCULENT ENIGMA Gnoua-influenced electronica album If This Is Your Best Shot Okra? sampled and made on a cheap laptop in 2007 with Hester Glock
LE TEANGA (with language 1968 - 2018) works by Paul Hawkins & others
Paul has collaborated on recordings, performances, books &/or projects with Martin Wakefield, Steve Ryan, David Spittle, Michael Harford, Julia Rose Lewis, Bruno Neiva, Mark Lloyd, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Andres Anwandtner, SJ Fowler, Bob Bright, John Ellis, Patrick Cosgrove, Sheer Zed, Rowan Evans, Hester Glock, Scott Lavene, Lucy English, Martin Kratz, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Astra Papachristodolou, Jonathon Mann, Emteaz Hussein, Jane Cartwright, Mali Clements, Bill Drummond, Second Step Bristol, Andrew McCutcheon, Run Logan Run, Doug Degnin, Doctor Stuart, Greg Micelli, Bob Modem, POEM BRUT amongst others . . .
April 10 - May 30 2024: We Take Writing For Granted II
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition at Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins.
May 24 - June 30 2023: We Take Writing For Granted I
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition in Bristol, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins, more details look here. Venue: Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England
Oct 06 2023: NO POETRY DAY #3 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
Postcards From Mental States is the title of a collaboration with Julia Rose Lewis which began in 2021. It was published in book form in 2023. A selection was published as Holding Patterns by the sadly-missed Beir Bua Press in 2021. A launch event & print exhibition took place at Eachwhat Studio, Bristol in April 2022. To purchase a copy of prints from the book, as well as the book LOOK HERE
Oct 06 2022: NO POETRY DAY #2 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
June - Sept 2022: Artimental - six Poem-Brutish workshops held at Eachwhat Studio.
April 2022: Man Alive! Creative Writing workshops with Knowle West Men’s Group Man Alive! at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol.
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Knowle West Media Centre & Bristol Ideas Working Class Writers Festival for more info look here
Aug 2021-Jan 2023: Eachwhat Studio a studio, exhibition, performance & community workspace in south east Bristol through HYPHA STUDIOS
Jan 2023: HANDSFREE Bob Modem’s deconstructions of Martin Wakefield’s renderings of Paul Elouard’s illustrations of Man Ray’s drawings (from Part 1 of Les Main Libres published by Steel Incisors
Oct 06 2021: NO POETRY DAY #1 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
JAN 202 INSECT SLEEP UNDER BIRDSONG: a collaboration w/Peter Jaeger commissioned by Writers Centre Kingston in lockdown
PHOTO POETRY SURFACES June - Dec 2021 part of the Bristol Photography Festival 2021, curated by David Solo, Astra Papachristodoulou and Paul Hawkins. An exhibition, launch event and catalogue
Photo Poetry Surfaces (Hesterglock Press, 2021 look here
I was proud to have work included in a remarkable celebration of the work of Georges Perec, Postcards For Perec, curated by Linda Parr. The project has been exhibited in the following spaces and places throughout the world . . .
University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, July - August 2021
University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, September 2021
Bath Spa University, The Street Gallery, January 2022
Bristol Artists’ Book Fair BABE at Bower Ashton, April 2022
Cardiff University, Special Collections Library, May 2022 - January 2023
Architecture and Design Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2022
University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Washington, USA, November - December 2022
University of Essex, Special Collections Library, Colchester, February - April 2023
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus, May 2023
Waverley Library, Sydney, Australia, July - August 2023
and featured in the following places:
Postcards for Perec featured by invitation in Bulletin No. 78 of the Association Georges Perec 2021
Postcards for Perec featured in ‘Patastrophe! #5 published by Surrealerpool, ISBN 9781910467220
Postcards for Perec reviewed in Printmaking Today, Vol 31 Winter 2022 Issue 124
Postcards for Perec, photo-essay published online in Axon Journal: Creative Explorations Text/ Page/Art 13-1 July 2023
Postcards for Perec ISBN 978-1-906501-21-1 is in the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Newberry Library, Chicago, USA
Cropped images of the postcards and the exhibitions are on Instagram, @postcards_for_perec.
A & B SIDES - Bob Modem made 13 scores. Small Things Happen read, improvised, played and recorded them in Lockdown Bristol, 2021. The A & B Sides album with the 13 scores is purchasable via Bandcamp look here more info: https://hesterglockpress.weebly.com/small-things-happen--bob-modem---a--b-sides.html
P & P (PATRICK COSGROVE & BOB MODEM) 2020 EARLY STAGE, WORK-IN-PROGRESS; A SHORT FILM / SOUNDTRACK COMMISSIONED BY POEM BRUT : SOUND(S), VERBAL & NON-VERBAL, SCRATCHES, SCRAPES, BOOMS & CLASHES, SOUND-MAPPING THOUGHTS, ELECTRICAL IMPULSES & MULCHED BRAIN-MECHANICS. DORMANT.
SECOND STEP WELLBEING COLLEGE 2020 - PRESENT RUNNING POEM BRUT WORKSHOPS FOR LEARNERS AT SECOND STEP BRISTOL’S WELLBEING COLLEGEHAVE A LOOK AT THE REMARKABLE NEW WORK MADE DURING THESE SESSIONS LOOK HERE
NEOPTICO COLLECTIV 2020 VARIOUS MEMBERS ONGOING FUTURE-FACING VISUAL POETRY
EACHWHAT VOL. 1 (KF&S Press, 2019) Poem Brut-sh collage & visual poetry
SECOND STEP BRISTOL 2020 - 2022 I CO-DEVELOPED & CO-DELIVERED A LIVED-EXPERIENCE LED TRAINING COURSE, STAYING ALIVE - SURVIVING PAIN, SUICIDE & SELF-INJURY FOR STAFF.
PLACE WASTE DISSENT & DIISONANCE 2017 ongoing collaboration with artist Steve Ryan. B & W, cut & paste, protest collage with voices [Hesterglock Press, 2019 2nd edition expanded paperback]
DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE CITIES: BRISTOL 2019 anthology of writers and poets based in Bristol for the DW Cities Series. Editor and contributor [paperback]
GO SIFT OMEN AN ERASURE OF DON PATTERSON’S GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS, 2019)
RING MORE GACK (PENTERACT PRESS 2019) IMPROVISED SOUND MAPPING CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
GAN TEANGA (WITHOUT LANGUAGE CIRCA 2018) COMPRISING OF WORKS BY PAUL HAWKINS (ALSO KNOWN AS BOB MODEM) AND OTHERS - ONGOING
LOU HAM: RACING ANTHROPOCENE STATEMENTS PAPERBACK
MOTOR-RACING/CLIMATE CHANGE CUT-UP SLOGANEERING (A DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE ORIGINAL,2018)
50 // FIFTY W/MICHAEL HARFORD - CONSTRAINED TEXT & COLLAGE COLLABORATION (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2018)
BURNING HOUSE PRESS 2018 GUEST-EDITOR, NOVEMBER. THEME: FACING UP TO THE FUTURE, TAKE A LOOK HEREFLEA 2018 - 2021 A COLLABORATIVE, ABSTRACT GRAPHIC NOVEL W/STEVE RYAN . . . DORMANT
POEM BRUT 2017 TO PRESENT - A MOVEMENT OF ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF C21ST LITERATURE: EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED INVOLVMENT AS A WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, PERFORMER, ARTIST & PUBLISHER
DIISONANCE 2017 COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS W/STEVE RYAN AS RESPONSES TO PLACE WASTE DISSENT; EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, ANTHOLOGY, ARCHIVED WEBSITE, ACE FUNDED PROJECT W/STEVE RYAN AND OTHERS (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2017)
hesterglockpress.weebly.com/hawkins--ryan---diisonance.html
ARCHIVE OF THE NOW have SOME OF MY WORK ARCHIVED ALONG WITH MANY, MANY MORE LOOK HERE
THE SECRET OF GOOD POSTURE a pair of detourned pamphlets with Bruno Neiva (Team Trident Press, 2016)
ANATHEMA 2016 - 2019 Hesterglock Press, Sad Press & Moot Press curating experimental poetry events based at the Arnolfini Centre for Modern Art, Bristol
SERVANT DRONE a collaborative experimental poetry book made with Bruno Neiva (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015
PLACE WASTE DISSENT (Influx Press, 2015) over 150 handmade pages of cut & paste protest collage from Claremont Road, London, paperback edition SOLD OUT
BOSCOMBE SUITE BOSCOMBE Dec 13, 2013 a live improvised soundtrack performance by the music room band to a film produced by Sarer Scotthorne
Split, a collaboration with artist Mark Lloyd
CLAREMONT ROAD (Erbacce press, 2013) “Self-medicated visions of entropy and sensual returns” Iain Sinclair
UNTOLD BOSCOMBE 2013-2014, locative community website
TRUCULENT ENIGMA Gnoua-influenced electronica album If This Is Your Best Shot Okra? sampled and made on a cheap laptop in 2007 with Hester Glock
LE TEANGA (with language 1968 - 2018) works by Paul Hawkins & others
Paul has collaborated on recordings, performances, books &/or projects with Martin Wakefield, Steve Ryan, David Spittle, Michael Harford, Julia Rose Lewis, Bruno Neiva, Mark Lloyd, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Andres Anwandtner, SJ Fowler, Bob Bright, John Ellis, Patrick Cosgrove, Sheer Zed, Rowan Evans, Hester Glock, Scott Lavene, Lucy English, Martin Kratz, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Astra Papachristodolou, Jonathon Mann, Emteaz Hussein, Jane Cartwright, Mali Clements, Bill Drummond, Second Step Bristol, Andrew McCutcheon, Run Logan Run, Doug Degnin, Doctor Stuart, Greg Micelli, Bob Modem, POEM BRUT amongst others . . .
