Shearsman Books announces a reading:

Wednesday 6 October, 7:30 pm at

The Poetry Cafe, basement,
The Poetry Society
22 Betterton Street
Covent Garden
London

Admission £5 / £4 (concessions)

GLORIA GERVITZ and RUPERT M LOYDELL

This will be Gloria Gervitz's first-ever reading in the UK and the 
occasion will serve as the belated launch of her book 'Migrations'. Her 
work will be read in Spanish and in English translation.

Gloria Gervitz’s epic poem Migraciones (Migrations) was in the process 
of composition for nearly thirty years, and was finally completed with 
the publication of a limited edition version of Septiembre (September), 
the seventh book, in 2003. This life’s work revolves around themes of 
memory and history, family and displacement, the diaspora and 
integration, language and discovery, and is a dramatic affirmation that 
wonderful poetry continues to come out of Mexico. Gloria Gervitz lives 
in her native Mexico City.

“To say that this is a book of the immigrant experience – which in some 
sense it is – is to underrate the range of form & feeling that Gervitz 
brings to it, creating thereby an epic of the migratory self. Like 
Pound’s Cantos or Zukofsky’s A, hers is the work of a lifetime: a 
life’s work including not only autobiography and familial memories as a 
kind of history, but rife with religious and mystical imagery from 
Jewish kabbala to Mexican folk Catholicism and beyond. Migrations takes 
its place with theirs as a long and difficult poem which is the 
achievement of a great poetic talent: a complex tribute to the complex 
world from which it comes.
— Jerome Rothenberg



collection 'A Conference of Voices'.

Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of 
Stride magazine, Reviews Editor of Orbis magazine, Associate Editor of 
Avacado magazine and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to 
Tangents magazine. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at 
Warwick University and poet-in-residence at Sherborne School. Recent 
publications include 'The Museum of Light', 'Endlessly Divisible' and 
four collaborative works.

His latest collection, 'A Conference of Voices', includes two full 
collections: one, the title collection, which concentrates on his more 
lyrical voice, and the second, Multiple Exposure, which is devoted to a 
more experimental turn of work.

Rupert Loydell – painter, poet, author – is an artist who champions on 
process, a recycler of enormous determination, a finder and re-user, a 
poet who has taken Clark Coolidge’s belief that there’s no need to make 
more when the racks of words around us already tower to an ultimate 
extreme.  Loydell’s work spins and clicks and startles. He’s where you 
would want to be if only you’d thought of it first.  'A Conference of 
Voices' is a magnificent assemblage of some of his best.
— Peter Finch


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Tony Frazer
Shearsman Books Ltd
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Exeter EX4 4LD
England

Tel / Fax: (+44) (0) 1392-434511

http://www.shearsman.com/
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