Events include a free presentation by Andrew Duncan and an innovative workshop project - the Battle of Waterloo: formalists v freestyle! Join us for a fun packed weekend! SOUTHERN STARS continues with Catherine Smith launching her new collection and Andrew Dilger and UNFOLD. Other events include our inaugural SUNDAY IN THE SOUTH with John Kinsella and a Friday special in a new venue - KIN at the Marlborough Theatre. Project poetry! commissions continue throughout the autumn. Look out for events in Arundel, Bexhill, Brighton, Haywards Heath, Kingston and Worthing.

Join us in November for Two Rivers Press, Carcanet, Brendan Cleary, David Crystal, Jane Draycott, Sasha Dugdale, Helen Dunmore, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Maria Jastrzebska, Carol Satyamurti and Robert Saxton. In December enjoy Arc and our renowned Christmas party, plus Ciaran O'Driscoll, Hugh Dunkerley, David Harsent, Jackie Wills, David Swann and Footwork... And then there's our new Spring season in 2004…

Project poetry! Throughout the autumn - commissions, workshops, events, installations, previews & premieres Supported by ACE SE ESCC Hastings Mid-Sussex Rother Barco Blitz Messenger Studenthealth.co.uk

SOUTHERN STARS
THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER National Poetry Day OPEN HOUSE 8pm £5/£2 146 Springfield Road Just across the line from London Road Station

WATERLOO
Waterloo poets strut their stuff : Sonya Ctvrecka, Simon Jenner, John McCulloch, Alan Morrison, John O'Donoghue, Helen Oswald, David Pollard, Amanda Sewell, Julie Whitby, Alf Wiltshire and Dan Wyke THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER OPEN HOUSE 8pm £5/£2 146 Springfield Road Just across the line from London Road Station THE BUTCHERS' HANDS Brighton launch of CATHERINE SMITH'S new collection from Smith/Doorstop and a preview of the projected poem she produced with Greg Daville for Project poetry! Plus LORNA THORPE and guests THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER OPEN HOUSE 8pm £5/£2 146 Springfield Road Just across the line from London Road Station UNFOLD ANDREW DILGER and his prize winning colleagues ISOBEL DIXON, SIMON BARRACLOUGH, HELEN CLARE & ROSE TIERNEY present their acclaimed new work

WEEKENDS in THE SOUTH SUNDAYS in THE SOUTH
SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER Nightingale Theatre @ GRAND CENTRAL Surrey Street - opposite Brighton Mainline Station 11 am FREE (with coffee & biscuits) ANDREW DUNCAN talk and discussion about his new book 'THE FAILURE OF CONSERVATISM IN MODERN BRITISH POETRY'

2 - 5.30 pm £10/£6 (with tea & biscuits)
BATTLE OF WATERLOO: Formalists v. Freestyle
Two workshop sessions offering novice and experienced poets alike an unusual experience with contrasting approaches to the craft. Led by John O'Donaghue and Dan Wyke, and Simon Jenner and Helen Oswald FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER Marlborough Theatre Princes Street Brighton 8pm £6/£3 In association with Lewes Live Literature - a national tour showcasing sharp performances by young black writers reflecting the reality and complexity of life in multicultural Britain

KIN
GEMMA WEEKES JAMIKA AJALON JACOB SAM-LA ROSE
A collection of prose by black and Asian women writers, Kin, will be published by Serpents Tail in October. Like the book, the Kin tour explores our understanding of family and kin today. Local writers are invited to present their own work on the kin theme. SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER OPEN HOUSE 2pm £7/£4 146 Springfield Road Just across the line from London Road Station JOHN KINSELLA One of Australia's leading poets reading and discussing his work at a relaxed Sunday lunchtime special in association with Arc Publications. Recent collections: Poems 1980-1994; The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe in the UK and USA, The Undertow: New & Selected Poems (Arc, U.K), Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999), Wheatlands (with Dorothy Hewett in 2000), and The Hierarchy of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP, 2001).John Kinsella is editor of the renowned international literary journal Salt and co-editor of the British literary journal Stand, International Editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.

SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER OPEN HOUSE 7.30 pm £6/£3 SALT & SHAKE 146 Springfield Road Just across the line from London Road Station ANDREW DUNCAN SIMON SMITH JEREMY REED CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL STONES AND ROS BARBER ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER MILLY!