Dear all - upcoming readings, with apologies for cross posting - everyone welcome!
Carol
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) welcomes New York-based Nightboat Books, with readings from
Lytton Smith & Stephen Motika
Monday 21 October, 6.00-7.30
Keynes Library
43 Gordon Square WC1
free & all welcome!
New York-based Nightboat Books was founded in 2003 and has published more than thirty titles, seeking to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries. Their books range from recovery projects - reissues of Myung Mi Kim's Dura, a long-overdue English translation of Édouard Glissant's Poetic Intention - to innovative contemporary poetry, including Nightboat Poetry Prize winners Christina Davis, Jessica Fisher, and Dawn Lund Martin, and collections such as Caroline Bergvall’s Meddle English.
Stephen Motika's first book of poems, Western Practice was published in 2012 by Alice James Books; he is also the author of two chapbooks, Arrival and at Mono (2007) and In the Madrones (2011), and editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009). His articles and poems have appeared in numerous publications and his collaboration with artist Dianna Frid, “The Field,” was on view at Gallery 400, Chicago (2003). He is currently the program director at Poets House in New York City and the publisher of Nightboat Books.
Lytton Smith is the author most recently of While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It (Nightboat, 2013), a book of poetry which explores our responses to far-off disasters. As well as translating fiction and poetry from Icelandic, he is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire.
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