At Beehive Poets, the New Beehive Inn, Westgate Bradford BD1 3AA 8/7/13
8.30p.m admission by preferred donation of £3.00
Visiting readers Frances Presley and Gavin Selerie
Gavin Selerie was born in London, where he still lives. He taught at
Birkbeck, University of London for many years. His books include Azimuth
(1984), Roxy (1996) and Le Fanu’s Ghost (2006)—all long sequences with
linked units. A Selected Poems, Music’s Duel, was published by Shearsman
Books in 2009. His work has appeared in anthologies such as The New British
Poetry (1988), Other: British & Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and The
Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008). His poems generally involve a
layering of voices through history and landscape. Gavin is currently working
on another long project, Hariot Double, which juxtaposes renaissance and
modern elements.
Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and grew up in Lincolnshire and
Somerset. She studied literature at East Anglia and Sussex, with
dissertations on Pound, Apollinaire, and Bonnefoy. She moved to London to
work as a librarian, specializing in community development and anti-racism
projects. She also worked at the Poetry Library. Poetry publications include
The Sex of Art (North and South, 1988), Hula Hoop (Other Press, 1993),
Linocut and Somerset letters (Oasis, 1997 & 2002). She collaborated with
artist Irma Irsara in a multi- media performance about the fashion trade,
Automatic Cross Stitch (Other Press, 2000); and with poet Elizabeth James in
an email text and performance, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books,
1999). Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 (Salt, 2004) was a
response to 9/11/2001. Myne: new and selected poems and prose, 1976-2005,
(Shearsman, 2006) takes its title from the old name for Minehead in
Somerset. Lines of Sight, (Shearsman, 2009), includes ‘Stone settings’, an
approach to Neolithic stone sites on Exmoor, and part of a multi-media
collaboration with Tilla Brading. She’ll be reading from her recent book,
‘An Alphabet for Alina’ (Five Seasons, 2012), a collaboration with the
artist Peterjon Skelt.
Followed by a read-around
Best wishes
Bruce Barnes
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