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CCCP 2002 
Timetable 
All events in The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge.
(entrance on Trinity Street, opposite the main entrance to Trinity College,
map here), except for 4pm on Saturday which will be at Gonville & Caius
College 
Friday 26th April 
7 pm  Fabienne Courtade 
Trevor Joyce 
EA Markham + Reception 

 

Saturday 27th April 


11 am  John Hall 
Sophie Levy 
Colin Simms 

 
2 pm  Yves di Manno 
Nicholas Johnson 
Kate Lilley 

 
4 pm  Che Qianzi at Gonville & Caius College
introduction by J H Prynne 

 
8 pm  Ciaran Carson 
Ulrike Draesner 
Tonnus Oosterhoff 

 
1030 pm  Marc Atkins' Zoopraxiscope 

 

Sunday 28th April 
11 am  Geraldine McKenzie
Leo Mellor
Simon Smith 

 
2 pm  Rob Holloway 
Cecilia Vicuna 

 
4 pm  Anneke Brassinga
Eugenius Dycki
Jacques-Henri Michot
Ferdinand Schmatz 

 
8 pm  Ike Mboneni Muila
Susan Schultz
Lutz Seiler
Lissa Wolsak 

 

Biographies 
Marc Atkins  is a photographer/film-maker and sound-artist who has lived and
worked in Europe and North America and has exhibited extensively in London,
Paris, Rome and New York. His work has been published in books and magazines
worldwide, and features in both private and public collections, including
the National Portrait Gallery , London.  
Anneke Brassinga (b.1948, Amsterdam) is a poet, novelist and translator of,
amongst others, Nabokov, Wilde, Plath and Auden. Her first book of poems,
Aurora was published in 1987 by De Bezige Bij, and recent books include
Huisraad (1998) and Verschiet (2001).  
Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast in 1948. His many award-winning
collections of poetry include The Irish for No (1987) and Opera Etcetera,
both published by Bloodaxe. His prose works include The Pocket Guide to
Irish Traditional Music (1996) and his most recent novel is Shamrock Tea
(Granta, 2001).  
Fabienne Courtade lives and works in Paris. Her collections include Lenteur
d'Horizon and Nuit comme Jours both published in 1999.  
Yves di Manno (b. 1954) presently works as an editor at Flammarion. His
criticism includes La Tribu perdue (Pound vs Mallarme) (Java, 1995) and he
has translated Pound, Williams and Oppen. His most recent collection of
poems is Partitions, champs dévastés (1995).  
Ulrike Draesner (b.1962) studied German, English and Philosophy in Munich
and Oxford. She lives in Berlin, working as a writer, translator and critic.
Her most recent books include Fur die Nacht geheuerte Zellen (2001), and a
novel, Mitgift (2002)  
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (b.1961) lives in Warsaw. Recent books include
Liber mortuorum (1997), Kamien pelen pokarmu (1999) and Zaplecze (2002). 
John Hall teaches at Dartington College, Devon. His first book was Between
the Cities (1968) and was followed by Malo-Lactic Ferment and Couch Grass
(1978). Etruscan Books recently issued his selected poems, else here.  
Rob Holloway works as a teacher in East London. He is a key player (centre
half) on the London poetry scene. Since 1990 he has been working on the
sequence, PERMIT. Some late clippings were issued by Allen Fisher's Spanner
imprint last year. 
Nicholas Johnson is publisher of Etruscan Books and for some years directed
the Three Towns Poetry Festival in the north of England. His anthology,
Foil: defining poetry 1985-2000, was published in 2000, and Show was
published in 2001. 
Trevor Joyce (b.1947) is a Dubliner, now living in Cork. In 1967 he
co-founded the New Writers' Press and his many collections include Syzygy
(1998) and Hopeful Monsters(1999). Shearsman has recently published A Body
of Work.  
Sophie Levy recently graduated from the Cambridge vortex. With Leo Mellor,
she has a joint collection shortly to be published by Salt. 
Kate Lilley (b.1960) teaches at the University of Sydney. She is editor of
the Penguin Classics' edition of the writings of Margaret Cavendish, and her
own collection, Versary is published by Salt.  
EA Markham was born in Montserrat in the West Indies and is now
writer-in-residence at Sheffield Hallam University. His books include
Lambchops in Papua New Guinea, and Misapprehensions (1995), and he has
edited Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies & Britain
(Bloodaxe).  
Geraldine McKenzie lives in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Her first
collection, Duty, will be published by Paperbark Press/Craftsman House. 
Leo Mellor recently graduated from the Cambridge vortex. With Sophie Levy,
he has a joint collection shortly to be published by Salt. 
Jacques-Henri Michot (b.1935) taught comparative literature for many years,
specialising in the work of Brecht. His Un ABC de la barbarie (1998) was
published to great acclaim and a new work, L'Art degenere (Al Dante) is to
appear shortly.  
Ike Mboneni Muila is one of the most powerful performers on the Soweto live
poetry scene. He writes in various South African languages and is
represented on the Purple Light CD anthology of poetry from Soweto.  
Tonnus Oosterhoff (b.1953, Leiden). His books include De ingeland and
(Robuuste tongwerken,) een stralend plenum both published by De Bezige Bij
in Amsterdam in 1997. A book of essays, Ook de schapen dachten na came out
in 2000.  
Che Qianzi (b.1963) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and went to
university in Nanjing where he became a leading member of the Formalist
Poetry Group. In the late 1980s, Che founded with Zhou Yaping and other
Nanjing poets the experimental poetry group Yuanyang (Original). He now
lives in Beijing and works as a freelance writer. Parataxis Editions
published a substantial collection of his work, translated by Jeff
Twitchell, in 1995.  
Ferdinand Schmatz (b.1953) lives in Vienna. He is an important critic of
Viennese experimentalism and has edited the work of Reinhard Preissnitz. His
recent poetry includes Das Grosse Babel, N (Haymon, 1999).  
Susan Schultz teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu and
is the editor of Tinfish magazine. She edited The Tribe of John (1995), a
collection of criticism on the work of John Ashbery, and her poems include
Earthquake Dreams (1995).  
Lutz Seiler (b.1963) lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin where he runs the
Peter Huchel Haus. He is founder and co-editor of the literary magazine
moosbrand and has published two collections of poetry, beruhrt/gefuhrt
(1995) and pech & blende (2000).  
Colin Simms' writings on ornithology, herpatology and motorcycles have an
international reputation. His book of selected poetry Eyes Own Ideas was
published by Pig Press.  
Simon Smith works at the Poetry Library in London. His most recent books are
Fifteen Exits (Waterloo Press, 2001) and Householde Gods (Great Works,
2001)".  
Cecilia Vicuna (b.1948 Santiago, Chile) is renowned as an artist and
performer. QUIPOem/The Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuna was
published in 1997 and brings together much of her verbal and visual work.
Her current travelling installation is Cloud-Net, a poem in space (1999).  
Lissa Wolsak lives in Whistler, BC. Her book, The Garcia Family Co-Mercy was
published by Tsunami, and her recent work includes Pen Chants.  



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