by ubswil004 | Oct 10, 2016 | Reading, Symposium
On 10 October 2016, the CPRC hosted a session on ‘Poetry, Poetics, Collaboration, Translation: the Art of Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein’. Thanks to Colin Still of Optic Nerve for making these recordings available. Track 1. Autopsychographia Track2....
by ubswil004 | Jun 9, 2016 | Reading
On 9 June 2016, Gavin Selerie launched Hariot Double (Five Seasons Press) at Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts. There was a brief reading by the author, with comment by collaborator Alan Halsey on the graphics in the book.
by ubswil004 | May 20, 2016 | Palestine, Watadd
How does geographic and cultural displacement change what we can say and write? Is there a poetics of displacement? This event took these questions as its starting point as well as work done in creative writing workshops in Palestine and the UK. The session...
by ubswil004 | May 19, 2016 | Reading
On 19 May 2016 the CPRC hosted US poets Rob Halpern, Peter Gizzi and Matvei Yankelevich. What followed was a series of uncomfortable, beautiful and translated poems that confronted the necessity of reinventing the lyric in the context of social crisis, late...
by ubswil004 | May 18, 2016 | Reading, Veer Book Launch
On Wednesday 18th May Veer Books Launched Magic Town (London: Veer Books, 2016) a new book of poems by Larry Kearney. Larry also gave a talk on the poetry of Jack Spicer. Larry Kearney was Born in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to San Francisco in ’64 and became...
by ubswil004 | Mar 16, 2016 | Reading, Veer Book Launch
Alice Lyons’ The Breadbasket of Europe was launched at Birkbeck on Wed 16th March 2016. About Alice Lyons: The couple of visits she made to Ireland as a girl and a college student shook her up (in a good way): the first poems she wrote of any significance to her...
by ubswil004 | Mar 4, 2016 | Ecopoetics
On the 4 March 2016 the CPRC hosted ‘Verdant Intersections: An Event on Landscape, Ecology, Poetry and Performance’ The event featured Linda Russo, Dan Eltringham and Laura Burns Linda Russo is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Meaning to Go...
by ubswil004 | Jan 17, 2016 | Reading
On the 9 April 2016 hosted a reading by three Spiralbound authors: Ghazal Mosadeq, Andrew Spragg and Florence Uniacke. Ghazal Mosadeq is a writer, poet and translator. Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines in the UK, Iran,...
by ubswil004 | Jan 13, 2016 | Reading, Veer Book Launch
On the 13 January 2016 poets Adrian Clarke, Doug Jones, Nat Raha and William Rowe all launched new books at Birkbeck. Adrian Clarke, Excess Measures http://www.veerbooks.com/filter/veer-books/Adrian-Clarke-Excess-Measures Doug Jones, London and Norfolk Poems...
by ubswil004 | Dec 4, 2015 | Reading
On 4 December 2015 the CPRC hosted the London launch of Apocalypse Dreams by Jennifer Cooke. You can get the book via Sad Press: https://sadpress.wordpress.com/, ‘This is a reality of now. It’s not the unthinkable fiction of a future.’Read the rest of...
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