If you are in London on Friday 26th February come and hear four amazing poets for a fiver (£4 conc.)
The Out of Bounds Poetry Project is holding its first event at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Friday 26th February 2016, 6.30-8.30pm, and we very much hope you can join us.
Beyond Bounds
What does 'place poetry' look and sound like in the 21st century?
Join poets Anthony Joseph, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi and Vahni Capildeo at a performance and discussion on a transformative poetics of place in Britain today. Black and Asian poets in Britain share their visions and provocations. How can you be moved by place? What are your personal 'maps'? Who are your neighbours in the joys and pains of ordinary life? What lights up your morning? What are your night-time songs?
Jay Bernard's interests include graphic/public art, film, literature, technology, cyber-feminism, queerness and impending doom(s). Her most recent collection is English Breakfast. Kayo Chingonyi, author of Some Bright Elegance and The Colour of James Brown's Scream, 'weighs each vowel and syllable as if it's a thing of beauty' (Apples and Snakes). Anthony Joseph, described as 'the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain', most recently published Rubber Orchestras. Vahni Capildeo's cross-genre writing appears next as Measures of Expatriation, a collection shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
http://www.bl.uk/events/beyond-bounds-britain-re-presented-in-poetry
The Project
The OOB Poetry Project emerges out of Out of Bounds - the Bloodaxe anthology of Black and Asian poets responding to place in Britain. Working with the British Library, the Scottish Poetry Library, Cultureword and Bloodaxe Books, we are launching a series of site-specific events around these isles. A new digital map of diverse poetry of place will be created from the participants - anthology guest poets with connections to the places they write about, schools that Out of Bounds will work with, and audience members who are willing to contribute thoughts, provocations, lines, images, or 'talking head'/vox pop moments. Do you have favourite, overlooked, or memorable places or poets? You can get in touch about the project at [log in to unmask], or Tweet to @OoBPoetry. All followers welcome! The project is funded by the AHRC.
Best wishes
Gemma
Gemma Robinson
School of Arts and Humanities
Stirling University
Out of Bounds, edited by Jackie Kay, James Procter and Gemma Robinson
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/out-of-bounds-1024?
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