CAMBRIDGE SERIES
POETRY READINGS
in association with The London Review of Books
RAE ARMANTROUT - TIM MORRIS - SIMON SMITH
see www.barquepress.com
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THURSDAY 9th December at 8 p.m.
Drama Studio
English Faculty Building
9 West Road
University of Cambridge
ALL WELCOME
£3/2 concessions.
Our usual book stall selling the books of Salt, Equipage, Barque, Parataxis,
Landfill, Rank Zerox and more will be open. Please bring lots of cash.
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RAE ARMANTROUT has published eight books of poetry: Extremities (The
Figures, 1978), The Invention of Hunger (Tuumba, 1979), Precedence (Burning
Deck, 1985), Necromance (Sun And Moon, 1991), Couverture (a selected in
French translation, Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1991),Made to Seem (Sun And
Moon, 1995), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected
Poems (Wesleyan, 2001). A prose memoir, True, was published by Atelos in
1998. Armantrout's poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including In The
American Tree (National Poetry Foundation), Language Poetries (New
Directions), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Norton), Out of
Everywhere (Reality Street), Moving Borders (Talisman), Best American Poetry
of 1989, 2001 and 2002 (Scribners), Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2
(University of California), and American Women Poets of the 21st Century
(Wesleyan). A recent issue of How2 on Scalapino is available at
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/
She teaches
writing at the University of California, San Diego.
SIMON SMITH, born 1961 in Redruth, Cornwall, brought up on the borders of
Hertfordshire and Essex. Educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury,
he lived in Pennsylvania from 19841986 where he threw in an academic career
for one in librarianship. He has worked at the Poetry Library in London
since 1991, and became Librarian in 2003. He edited GRIllE (19911993) and
was poetry editor of Angel Exhaust (19981999). He is one of the judges for
the National Poetry Competition 2004 along with Elaine Feinstein, Ciaran
Carson and chair Denis MacShane, the Minister for Europe.
TIM MORRIS has worked as a journalist, a benefits officer, an employment
consultant for ex-prisoners, and a researcher of American Literature. He
currently teaches English in Cambridge. His poetry books are Ex Nihilo, Two
Poems and The Day of the Hangings, with a new collection to be published
shortly. His study of Wallace Stevens will also appear soon.
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