(Cliff Yates and Angela Keaton waiting to record the Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics group CD: Points of Reference) (Photo: Andrew Taylor)Celebrating a decade of poetics at Edge Hill
1. Talks and Launch Series (in the Education Block)
Open Meetings of the Poetry and Poetics Research Group (free – all welcome) all at 6.30-8.30
The whole series will be launching the Salt poetics anthology Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh (edited by Rupert Loydell) (four of the group are featured) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/anth/9781844714711.htm
This is an eclectic and exciting gathering of poetry and prose-poems that try to understand what poetry is and who or what it might be for. It is also about what writers might want or demand from poetry, in either a general or personal way.
8th October 2009: Scott Thurston will discuss his book Internal Rhyme to be published next year by Shearsman.
This will also be a chance to celebrate the new Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, co-edited by Sheppard and Thurston
15th October 2009:
Cliff Yates: on poetic, tba
Andrew Taylor: ‘The Poetics of Absence – part two’: a continuation and reflection upon the work in Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh.
29th October 2009:
Dee Mc Mahon: ‘Stories of the Line - Provocation, Process and Product’
Robert Sheppard: ‘Fictional Poems and Fictional Poetics: the double oeuvre of René Van Valckenborch’
5th November 2009:
Daniele Pantano:
'Living in Translation: A Discussion of Exile, Translingualism, and Writing Your Way Home.'
Michael Egan: poetics, tba.
2. Reading and Launch
11th November 7.30 in The Rose Theatre £3.50
Cliff Yates will be reading from Frank Freeman’s Dancing School (out from Salt now: www.saltpublishig.com/books/smp/9781844715039.htm)
Support act: members of the poetry and poetics research group
Official journals:
Pages online, here, of course!
And Erbacce will be publishing a print edition dedicated to the group (details online at http://www.erbacce.com/)
Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics Research Group members past and present include: Robert Sheppard, Cliff Yates, Andrew Taylor, Scott Thurston, Neil Addison, Bill Drennan, Dee McMahon, Matt Fallaize, Daniele Pantano, Steve Van Hagen, Michael Egan, Colin Harris, Patricia Farrell, Angela Keaton and Alice Lenkiewicz.
