We think the following is the finalized timetable of
THE CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
FRIDAY 25TH -SUNDAY 27TH APRIL AT KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
FRI 8pm. Bob Perelman. + Reception.
SAT 11am Philippe Beck, Roger Langley, Helen Macdonald
2pm Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg: films by Colin Still
4pm John Forbes memorial reading
8pm Roy Fisher, Peter Gizzi, Gig Ryan
SUN 2pm Peter Blegvad.
4pm Michelle Grangaud, Lisa Jarnot
7pm Lee Ann Brown, Olivier Cadiot, Keston Sutherland
Exhibition of art and craft works by and associated with Tom Raworth will
run concurrently with the Conference, in the Chetwynd Room, Kings College
(open only during conference events)
Week-end ticket: £22 concession £12
Per reading: £4 / £2.50
Booking is not really necessary -- just turn up.
Some notes: this year we have taken the risk of inviting a number of poets
virtually unknown here. I've never read a word of three of them myself.
Peter Gizzi is known as the editor of exact change yearbook. Like Lisa
Jarnot he is an American poet of very persuasive lyric/commentary mode,
self/world-senses worked into elegant narratives, both of them. I'm told
that L.A.Brown is similarly. Grangaud is a French poet who works by
collage techniques. Beck is a french poet who comes with strong
recommendation from the top chickens of the Parisian poetry run. Cadiot
should be reasonably well known: post-Oulipu poet & novelist whom Charles
Bernstein has translated, very lively soul. Gig Ryan is an Australian poet
of major reputation. Peter Blegvad writes sings and draws. R.F.Langley is a
senior British poet who has never written very much and perhaps for this
reason is very highly respected by those who know. Colin Still's films are
expertly conceived and include original footage of both poets reading, etc.
/Peter Riley
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