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Hi all,


I just wanted to give a shout out for a major poetry festival that's taking place in Manchester and Salford in a couple of weeks.


Poetry Emergency is a two-day festival exploring emergency and liveness in radical poetic art, taking place in Salford and Manchester on 23rd and 24th November 2018. Bringing together some of the most challenging and surprising poets and performers of the moment, we ask how poetic art can intervene against passivity and fear in order to agitate and inspire. In the emergency-prone moment of anxiety and disaster-creation, how can the mini-revolutions of language art snowball into communities of support and resistance? Crossing between poetry readings and performance, and integrating workshops and discussions into the programme, Poetry Emergency will be a rare and exciting creative and learning event for the North West.

Friday 23rd November ~ Salford University, New Adelphi Studio Theatre, M5 4WT
A day of workshops, seminars & discussion, followed by an evening of performance.

Saturday 24th November ~ 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
A day of poetry and poetry-adjacent performance

Line-up includes:
Maggie O’Sullivan
Sean Bonney
Danny Hayward
Lila Matsumoto
Rhys Trimble
Nisha Ramayya
Nathan Walker
Nicola Singh
Nat Raha
Claire Potter
Amy McCauley
Stuart Calton
Gloria Dawson
THF Drenching
Tear Fet
Food People
Young Identity
Zoë Skoulding
Plus displays materials as intervention contributed by Bhanu Kapil

Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections will also have displays of poetry books and pamphlets available to view in their reading room on the afternoon of Saturday 24th November

Tickets are available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-emergency-tickets-50262280835

https://poetryemergency.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/poetryemergency

https://www.facebook.com/events/1829288523828764/




It's going to be really fun. I hope to see people there.


Joey




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