BOOK LAUNCH 

Clive Bush's book _out of dissent_, analysing and discussing the poetry of
allen fisher, bill griffiths, barry macsweeney, eric mottram and thomas a
clarke; and his anthology of them, _worlds of new measure_ were launched at
svp on Friday 19th sep 1997. Clive spoke briefly before a reading by
Griffiths, Fisher and MacSweeney

It was a long day. The reading / launch was preceded by the first ever Eric
Mottram Conference at Senate House with contributions from Rothenberg,
Joris, Nuttall, Lisa Raphals, Dale Carter, Allen Fisher and others

NB The third Eric Mottram Memorial Reading scheduled for 13th January 98
will be given by Bill Griffiths


JEROME ROTHENBERG / PIERRE JORIS AT WF WORKSHOP LONDON 20 9 97

JR and PJ joined the Writers Forum workshop – entering its 45th year - this
Saturday. No time to give a full account but I would like to record however
inadequately a remarkable event.

JR opened by reading _Night Poem #1 for Jackson Mac Low_ - a three parter
wide ranging in terms of content making exciting use of not just rhyme but
the idea of rhyme in a multilingual compositional field - i.e. what rhymes
and how in one language doesn't in another

Later he read from his translations of Picasso from his new project with
Pierre to translate the complete poems and plays of Picasso

Pierre read from his translations of pre Islamic Arabic poetry

Other performance contributors included Johan de Wit, Adrian Clarke,
Lawrence Upton, Jennifer Pike and Bob Cobbing.

Discussion of the issues raised by the performances continued between and
after the performances; and for a while in the bar below after the workshop

It is a pity that relatively few people turned out to share the workshop
with Jerry and Pierre. It is hardly an every day opportunity.

Never mind.

Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris performe at SVP – upstairs, 3 cups,
sandland street, london wc1 8pm Tuesday 23rd sep 97 admission £5 / £2.50


The next WF workshop will be 27th Sep 97 at 3.30 pm Upstairs, Victoria,
Mornington Place, off Mornington Crescent 50p admission

As well as offering an opportunity to anyone interested in experimentation
in poetry performance, Johan de Wit will be launching titles from WF, RWC,
Mainstream and Hill Books



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