Constellation: Alice Notley
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Openned | Birkbeck | Intercapillary Space
The 10 May symposium on Alice Notley's work took
the centrality of voice to her writing as its
model, aiming to find in the event a form that could do justice to her range, and set
loose the
exchange among a community of friends brought together for the occasion. Everyone chose a
poem,
or section of poetry,
speaking for just ten minutes, leaving the rest of the time free for
open
discussion. To engage with Alice's voice in a sustained
way, and encounter the nature of
those
choices, was remarkable. The constellation of responses it produced is ongoing, and still
widening.
- Carol Watts