CAMBRIDGE SERIES
POETRY READINGS
in association with The London Review of Books

Jerome Game - Christophe Fiat - Jean-Michel Espitallier
and the music of RECURRING
and film

see www.barquepress.com

An EVENT. The Cambridge Series is delighted to welcome three leading
experimental French poets who will be performing in English, French and
somewhere in between, both with and without projected film and live music
from Recurring.
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Tuesday 30th November 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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JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER

"Jean-Michel Espitallier is one of the most mobile et fast poets of his
generation..." (Patrick Kéchichian, Le Monde, May 2003)

Jean-Michel Espitallier (born in 1957) works within constantly renewed
textual and performative practices : lists, cut-ups, rhythmic buckles,
destructured proses, false scientific theorems, etc. Between black humour,
comical tension, empty syllogisms and derision, his poetry, close in that to
some current trends in contemporary art, wants to destabilise and
porblematise further the notions of genre and aesthetic (and therefore
ethical) frontiers. His public performance produce a language whose
originality, strangeness and humour arrange very productive little poetic
machines.
Cofounder of the journal Java, editor of the special issue of Le Magazine
Littéraire on "French New Poetry" (March 2001), he is the author of several
books, including the rather controversial Pièces détachées : une anthologie
de la poésie française aujourd¹hui (Pocket, 2000). Numerous public readings
in France and in other countries. He is currently at work on several
multimedia projects.

Bibliography :
Ponts de frappe, Fourbis, 1995.
Pièces détachées, une anthologie de la poésie française aujourd¹hui, Pocket
2000.
Gasoil : prises de guerre, Flammarion, 2000.
Fantaisie bouchère, Derrière la Salle de Bain, 2001 (et édition bilingue
français-anglais, Duration Press, New York, 2004).
Le Théorème d¹Espitallier, Flammarion, 2003.
En Guerre, Inventaire-invention, 2004.
Où va-t-on ? (extrait), Le Bleu du ciel, coll.  « L¹Affiche », 2004.


JÉRÔME GAME

Born in Paris in 1971; lives in Paris after having lived several years in
the United States and in England (Cambridge). Teaches philosophy at The
American University of Paris.
Co-organises, with Eric Suchère and Cyrille Martinez the Single events
(public performances, publishing, exhibits).
His texts work through the iconoclast experience of language brought back to
that of the body and of political and aesthetic signs. As the contingent
materiality of language is revealed (and therefore that of much else; from
the desire of bodies to the need of expression, to the political situation
implicit to any writing, notably), the tension of the writing is at work
anew in a prose/verse indetermination, or in a stutter (written as well as
oral). This attempts to realise itself not as a thematic programme or a
series of symptomatic traces but as a series of effects of a levelling of
meaning. This poetic work is intensified in a relation to visual arts
(recent works with a photograph/video artist : Nebahat Avcioglu), sound
(several recordings and an engagement with the voice) and to a 'foreign
language' (writing in frenglish and in English). Several theoretical texts
interrogate those practices in the context of contemporary French poetry.

Bibliography :
Books :
- Bleu ériphérique (avec des photographies de Nebahat Avcio_lu), 2005 (tbp).
- Je e, éditions Little Single, Paris, 2005 (tbp).
- The source of the poisoning is unclear, Barque Press, Cambridge, 2004
(tbp).
- écrire à même les choses, ou, éditions Inventaire/Invention, Paris, 2004.
- I WISH I WAS GUILTY I (textes et photographies), éditions Voix, Metz,
2003.
- Tout un travail, Fidel Anthelme X, Marseille, 2003.
- Corpse&Cinéma, CCCP Press, Cambridge, 2002 (2nde édition, revue et
augmentée à paraître aux éditions du Quaternier, Montréal, 2004).
- Polyèdre suivi de La Tête bande, éditions Voix, Metz, 2001.
- Tension, éditions Fischbacher, Paris, 2000.

Translations :
- Hollow Life ­ Selection, translation, and presentation of Christian
Prigent, CCCP Press, Cambridge, 2001.
- English translations of poems by Christophe Tarkos and Philippe Beck for
Quid n°3, of Pascal Boulanger, Hubert Lucot, and Eric Suchère for Quid n°10,
and of Christian Prigent in Mantis n°2.
- Dossiers of French translation and presentation of contemporary British
poetry for Boxon n°15,16 et 17 and Action Poétique (tbp 2005).

Video and CD recordings :
- Quid _CD-R_ n°3, Cambridge, 2002
- CD Boxon n° 13, Lyon, 2003
- DVD more I think more I think more, de C. Martinez et J. Ferry,
Aix-en-Provence, 2004
- Son@rt n°35, Paris, 2004
- Incidences n°11 DVD, Marseille, January 2005
- Inventaire-Invention CD-Rom, Paris, January 2005
- Mostra n°1 CD-Rom, January 2005

Pièces radiophoniques :
CHRISTOPHE FIAT

Christophe Fiat was born in 1966 in Besançon (centre of France). He is a
writer and does public performances because he thinks that literature is
also sound (« Poème épique ­ une aventure de Batman », « Comédie musicale,
AZF mon amour »...). He edits, with graphist artist Vincent Menu, the
journal revueMI.com and works with artist Thomas Hirschhorn.

Bibliography :
Texte au supplice, essai sur Georges Bataille (accompagné d'une préface de
Claude Louis-Combet), Éditions 23, 1998.
Sexie ou le système de la mode, Éditions Derrière la Salle de Bains, 2000.
Laure Sinclair, Éditions Derrière la Salle de Bains, 2000.
King Kong est à New York, Éditions Derrière la Salle de Bains, 2001.
Ladies in the dark, Éditions Al Dante, 2001.
New York 2001, poésie au galop , Éditions Al Dante, 2001.
La Ritournelle, une anti-théorie, Éditions Léo Scheer, 2002.
Bienvenus à Sexpol, Éditions Léo Scheer, 2003.