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| what: The Bury Poems |
| when: Saturday 02 May 2009 - - 14:00 |
| where: The Met
Arts Centre,
Market St., Bury
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Tony Lopez, Carol Watts, Phil Davenport plus works by Robert Grenier
During the 2005 Text Festival, American poet Robert Grenier wrote 6 new poems in response to his stay in Ramsbottom. This began a series of responses to Bury by some of the UK's leading poets.
Tony Lopez
Tony Lopez is a leading British conceptual poet best known for his book False Memory, a political poem composed in multiple registers of public language, rather than conceived as self-expression. His most recent poetry collections are Covers (Salt, 2007) and False Memory (Salt, 2003), which was a book of the year in the New Statesman and poetry book of the year in the Guardian.
Carol Watts
Carol Watts is a poet and mixed media artist, whose practice crosses between writing and drawing, photography and collage. She teaches at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs the Centre for Poetics. Her stunningly sounded poetry includes Wrack (2007), brass, running (2006) and later in 2008, a collection of Occasionals. A book of prose chronicles, alphabetise, combining handwritten script, dictionary text and anecdotal tales eavesdropped in the street and on commuter trains, was exhibited in the Different Alphabets show in Bury in 2005 and is now an eBook.
Phil Davenport
Philip Davenport is one of a new wave of experimental poets who acknowledge contemporary art as much as poetics. The poems are made from found text: journalism, porn, txt messages, overheard voices: the daily, unnoticed, backdrop of us. His poems appear in art galleries, recordings, posters, publications, performances, streets and shop windows.
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Tickets £6 and £3 conc.
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