On April Saturday 13th 2019
You can read what Patricia Farrell and I did for the performance: here.
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY, UK
The European Poetry Festival comes to Manchester with some of the finest modern poets of the thriving Manchester (and surrounding!) scene in collaborative pairs with writers visiting from across Europe, though some locals, like us, are working together. (As we have for over 30 years, though not like this!) New performances made for the night in this unique Camarade event. Featuring
Kim Campanello and Leonce Lupette
Harry Man and Krisjanis Zelgis
Scott Thurston and Simona Nastac
Tom Weir and Endre Ruset
Colin Herd and Morten Langeland
Martin Kratz and Inga Pizane
Sophie Carolin Wagner and Maria Sledmere
Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell
Nell Osborne and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset
Sarah-Clare Conlon and Jazmine Linklater
Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler
Tania Hershman and Christodoulos Makris
Harry Man and Krisjanis Zelgis
Scott Thurston and Simona Nastac
Tom Weir and Endre Ruset
Colin Herd and Morten Langeland
Martin Kratz and Inga Pizane
Sophie Carolin Wagner and Maria Sledmere
Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell
Nell Osborne and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset
Sarah-Clare Conlon and Jazmine Linklater
Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler
Tania Hershman and Christodoulos Makris
Patricia and I have made use, as a template, the almost-collaboration between Christopher
(‘Kit’) Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh, the former’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd
to His Love’ and the latter’s ‘The Nymph’s Reply’. We have jointly composed two
poems.
For the first we treated as a source vocabulary some words
from a passage in Anthony Burgess’ novel A
Dead Man in Deptford, in which the two poets converse.
To correspond to Sir Walter Raleigh’s ‘reply’ to Marlowe’s
poem, we jointly wrote a ‘reply’ to our first poem that was its ‘antonymic
translation’. This technique, we discovered, was far from a mechanical
selection of simple opposites.
This year’s (and last year’s) information and full
documentation may be found here
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| Last year's group picture |
It’s always an interesting and varied evening. The last (2018)
Manchester Euro reading was partly a launch for Twitters for a Lark
All the videos are to be found here:
At the 2018 Manchester
launch I was also collaborating with a real Lithuanian poet Rimas Uzgiris, https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/rimas-uzgiris
which I thought went well. You may also see that here. AND I posted the
text itself, a lyrical piece called 'Unreadable Expressions', on this blog HERE
