Poet in the City presents: Ezra Pound - Making it New
7pm, Wednesday 31 October
Hall Two, Kings Place
Booking: www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/ezra-pound/
T.S. Eliot once said that Ezra Pound is ‘more responsible for the twentieth-century revolution in poetry than any other individual’. His impact on modern poetry is undeniable, but who was Pound as a person, and how exactly did he ‘make it new’?
As one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, Pound holds the foremost position in the modernist canon. Transgressing the boundaries of form, politics and time, his experiments with style proved radical in nature, instigating the formation of Imagism, an avant-garde movement that favoured precise imagery and clear, sharp language. As a translator and editor, Pound proved both ground-breaking and contentious. Pound’s poetry, most notably his highly influential work The Cantos was lauded as visionary, yet remains littered with his support for and defence of European fascism, raising the question: can we ever truly separate the art from the artist?
Join us as we attempt to pick apart Pound, from the pioneering to the problematic, in an evening hosted by Helen Carr, author of The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists.
Carr will be joined by poet Will Harris who will examine the influence of Oriental poetry on Pound’s work, and Pound expert and author of The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound, Daniel Swift. Celebrated RSC actor Geoffrey Streatfeild will also perform live readings of Pound’s poetry.
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