Two evenings in Peckham

Please join us for two evenings of contemporary poetry and fiction, presented at and given immediate context by the Hannah Barry Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition Minstrel & Chronicle. Following the exploration of the artist as narrator within a hybrid and networked culture, these two events shall question a similar impulse within the poetic turn, whereby language might in the same moment create as well as connect.

12th June:

An evening headlined by author and narrativist Stewart Home, who is currently preparing an LP to be released on the Test Centre spoken word label. Stewart will be joined by Katrina Palmer and Iphgenia Baal, two writers whose work equally promotes experimentalism and unconvention within the framework of the contemporary novel. These will be accompanied and interjected by poetry readings from Tim Cockburn, Harriet Moore and Harry Burke, in order to explore the space between the attack on and condensation of form.

29th June:

Clinic, a poetry collective from South London, invite Ugly Duckling Presse, an independent poetry press based in Brooklyn, to present a poetry reading spanning the Atlantic. From New York, and via Skype, we shall welcome Eugene Ostashevsky, Emily Toder, Catherine Taylor and Rachel Levitsky. Live, and less mediated, will be readings from Sophie Collins and Oli Hazzard. The evening intends to create transatlantic dialogue, as well as discussion around shortening the physical and poetic distance.

N.B.: Matthew Gregory also skyped in from Tronto, Italy.

Both events to start at 7pm.

Entry is free, location here.

Clinic / Test Centre / Ugly Duckling Presse / cmdplus