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Susan Howe and David Grubbs in London
Susan Howe and David Grubbs Seminar
Birkbeck College, B35 Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1
Wednesday 7th October, 3-5 pm.
Susan Howe and David Grubbs will speak about the ideas that have nourished their
collaboration as poet and musician. Howe and Grubbs have released two CDs, Thiefth
(2005) and Souls of the Labadie Tract (2006), works which take the encounter between
poetry and music into new territory. Each will speak for around 25 minutes and the
second hour will be devoted to questions and discussion.
Susan Howe’s explorations of American history and letters place her in a line that runs
from Emily Dickinson through Wallace Stevens to the frontiers of 21st-century lyric. She
is for the remainder of the year an Anna-Maria Kellen Felllow at the American Academy in
Berlin. David Grubbs is a former member of the post-rock group Gastr Del Sol whose
subsequent career is notable both for his acclaimed solo releases and his collaborations
with artists and writers.
Presented jointly by the Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
and Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre.
Howe and Grubbs will perform at the South Bank Centre on Thursday 8th October at 7.45
in the Purcell Room.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/literature-spoken-word/productions/susan-howe-
david-grubbs-48941
Their appearances in London are supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre,
the Faculty of Arts and the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London,
and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
They will also perform in Cambridge on 9 October (details to be publicised separately).
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