Nicholas Johnson has asked me to post this revised version of an earlier
posting.
FOR THE LOCKER & THE STEERER
a two day event at Diorama Arts, 34 Osnaburgh Street, London, NW1,
featuring artists whose poetry & performance negotiates the territory of
location, site & the body.
Sunday 14th March 2.30 pm
David Gascoyne.
(First London reading since 1990. The great British surrealist of
the 1930s, who enjoyed a tremendous revival of attention during the
1960s
and has now become Britain's most loved elder statesperson of poetry.)
Sunday 14th March 7.30 pm
Aaron Williamson & Craig Athill.
(Astill plays the deaf drum (bodhran) creating a sound which vibrates
through
an especially constructed stage, animating the balletic voice-body
performance of Williamson, who is deaf.)
Bob Cobbing.
(The celebrated sound/concrete poet/bookmaker, who has influenced
generations of other poets across the world.)
Nicholas Johnson
(performing The Lard Book, a gargantuan Visual Book in a silver case, a
found
text utilising a multitude of voices: neologism, German, concrete. "The
performance encompasses determinacy of chance & will solder into a short
collaborative debut of 'Hassell' (writers forum, 1999) with Bob
Cobbing.")
Monday 15th March 7.30 pm
Helen Macdonald
(whose debut collection Safety Catch drew widespread acclaim on both
sides
of the Atlantic. She works with falcons and hawks -- poems full of bird
flight
but mysteriously and musically so.)
Iain Sinclair
(poet, 'intellectual best-seller' prose writer and film maker of renown
and cult
followings. His work in progress is a sequel to the 12 walks that became
Lights Out for the Territory, and his poetry also acts as a reading of
the city of
London, "locations of the immediate and the unexpected".)
Douglas Oliver
("a rare London reading for this poet-explorer", says the flier, plus some,
but
excuse me, I'm off to do some exploring.)
Doug Oliver
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