To celebrate publication of a special issue of Chicago Review on
British Poetry
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/
KESTON SUTHERLAND - ANDREA BRADY - PETER MANSON
will be reading at
Notre Dame, Chicago, Miami (Ohio), Buffalo (NY), Boston...
All readings are open to the public.
Please feel welcome.
Please pass this message on to those you think may be interested.
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WEDNESDAY 4TH APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
6.00-8.00pm Poetry Reading
210-214 McKenna Hall
2.00-4.30pm, a panel debate will be held on Contemporary Poetry and
Politics in Britain and the US, launched by brief papers from British
and Notre Dame scholars.
On Tuesday 3rd April at 3.00 the short film River Pearls will receive
its premiere. This documents a conference of Chinese and British
avant-garde poets in Guangzhou, South China, in 2005, and will be
introduced by two of the British poets involved and a Notre Dame
China scholar.
ETS Theatre, McKenna Hall
These events and free and open to the public. Further information can
be found at the Notre Dame Creative writing calendar, http://
www.nd.edu/~alcwp/activities.html
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THURSDAY 5TH APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
5.30pm in Rosenwald 405 - Poetry reading
http://poempresent.uchicago.edu/
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FRIDAY 6TH APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
1.00pm in Ronsewald 405. - Talks. Papers by Andrea Brady and Keston
Sutherland followed by open discussion.
http://poempresent.uchicago.edu/
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FRIDAY 6TH APRIL
CHICAGO
8.00pm, Discrete Series at Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Floor.
Poetry Reading and launch
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MONDAY 9TH APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
7:30-9:30 p.m. IN 337 Bachelor (Reading Room)
A panel discussion on contemporary British and American poetry
http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events.html#britpoets
TUESDAY 10TH APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
8.00-9:30 p.m. in 40 Irvin
Poetry reading
http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events.html#britpoets
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THURSDAY 12TH APRIL
SUNY, BUFFALO
Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
2pm: Round Table Discussion featuring Sam Ladkin,
Robin Purves and others
4pm: Readings by Andrea Brady, Peter Manson and Keston
Sutherland
http://www.literarybuffalo.org/ub_events.htm
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FRIDAY 13TH APRIL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, BOSTON
7.00pm Thomson Room
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NEW YORK
Keston Sutherland, Andrea Brady and Matt Ffytche are available for
readings in New York between Sunday 15th April and Tuesday 17th April
if anything can be arranged.
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CHICAGO REVIEW
The latest issue of Chicago Review --- a special issue on British
poetry --- is now available!
The 232-page issue is $12 in the US and £8 in UK (including priority
shipping) and may be ordered online from this address:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/purchase531.html
Subscriber and contributor copies are now in the mail.
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The issue's main feature --- co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin &
Robin Purves --- presents 80-pages of poems by:
Andrea Brady
Chris Goode
Peter Manson &
Keston Sutherland
As well as critical contributions by John Wilkinson (on Andrea
Brady), Jeremy Noel-Tod (on Peter Manson), Sam Ladkin (in
conversation with Chris Goode), Simon Jarvis (on Keston Sutherland),
& Matt Ffytche (on Keston Sutherland).
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This feature complements our regular review section, which presents
fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry:
Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson
Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne
V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood
R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam
Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith
Leila Wilson on Sarah Law
Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch
Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin
Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark
John Lennox on Geraldine Monk
Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall
Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson
Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull
Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney
Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan
The issue also includes the following material:
A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets, including:
Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, & Sean Bonney
Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner
Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry
1945–2000"
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