Sounds great! I'd honestly love to be there, Jill! Will you raise the money
for my airfare? 'Caus if you do, I'll certainly keep my end of the bargain
and make it to the terminal on time with my toothbrush!
Best
Árni
--
Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
on 11/13/03 11:42 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If anyone is in Sydney on 24th November, you should be at this reading.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> The Loft Readings, Monday 24th November
> Featuring: Artwork by Francie Shaw, Readings by Bob Perelman and John Tranter
> The Loft Bar
> University of Technology, Sydney
> Entry to the right of the UTS tower building on Broadway
> 6.30pm for 7pm start ($5/$3)
>
> The University of Technology Department of Writing and Social Inquiry presents
> THE LOFT READINGS featuring Bob Perelman, Francie Shaw and John Tranter.
>
> The Loft Readings are proud to present two internationally renowned language
> poets. Language writers, heirs to the early modernists and beat poets, favour
> poetry that experiments with form, rejects the personal narrative and examines
> the use and misuse of language. It is poetry that draws from, and is inspired
> strongly by language rather than pure experience. We welcome, all the way from
> the USA, Bob Perelman and artist Francie Shaw, and from local shores, Sydney
> poet John Tranter.
>
> Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw lived in the Bay Area of San Francisco from 1976
> to 1990. There, Francie Shaw had a one-woman installation show at 80 Langton
> Street and collaborated extensively with poets. She took part in collaborative
> performances with Perelman and musician Larry Ochs; created book covers for
> numerous poets, including Robert Grenier, David Bromige and Lyn Hejinian; and
> designed costumes for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Troupe and sets for Poets
> Theater. She taught art at the Sierra School from 1984 until 1990. That year
> she and Perelman moved to Philadelphia, where she taught art at Friends Select
> School until 1997 when she stopped teaching to devote her time to her own
> work.
> Since then she has shown her work in Philadelphia and New York (A.I.R.
> Gallery).
>
> Bob Perelman has edited Hills magazine, organized and curated the Talk Series
> in San Francisco, organized performances of Louis and Celia Zukofsky's A-24
> and
> participated in various art ventures, including 80 Langton Street (now Langton
> Arts) and Poets Theatre. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Bob
> is the author of 16 books of poetry, including Ten to One and The Future of
> Memory; and 2 critical books, The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce,
> Stein, and Zukofsky (1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing
> and Literary History (1996). He has edited 2 collections of poets' talks,
> Hills
> Talks and Writing/Talks.
>
> Playing Bodies, Shaw and Perelman's painting/poem collaboration, is
> forthcoming
> from Granary Books (NY) later this year.
>
> John Tranter is a leading modern Australian poet. He has worked mainly in
> publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making
> reading tours of the United States, Britain and Europe. 20 collections of his
> verse have been published, including The Floor of Heaven, a book-length
> sequence of 4 verse narratives (HarperCollins 1992 and Arc, UK, 2001), Late
> Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), Different Hands, a collection of 7
> experimental prose pieces (Folio/Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Heart
> Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt
> Publications, UK, 2003). His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern
> Poetry. In 1992 he co-edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern
> Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology published in Britain and the USA as
> The
> Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the free
> Internet magazine Jacket.
>
> The Loft Readings are coordinated by Berndt Sellheim, Stephanie Bishop and
> Kathleen Evans. For enquiries contact: Kathleen Evans 0402 07 9977 or
> [log in to unmask]
>
> The Loft Readings would not be possible without the support of The UTS
> Department of Writing and Social Inquiry, and The Literature Board of the
> Australia Council.
|