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In conversation with Dannie Abse
03.12 – 09.13 – In conjunction with The Literateur I ran a series of poetry nights at Dulwich Books, most recently with Dannie Abse, who I also interviewed for around twenty minutes before he read from his work. We talked about, among other things, Yeats and late style, Welshness and Welsh medieval verse, elegy and the difficulty of avoiding cliché.
The other poetry events I organised were themed by publisher:
* Faber & Faber – Christopher Reid & Sam Riviere
* Carcanet – Oli Hazzard, Jane Yeh & Caroline Bird
* Salt Publishing – featuring readers from the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2012)
02.12 – I conceived of, organised, publicised and wrote copy for the inaugural Dulwich Books Indie Presses reading series, three events focusing on three progressive independent publishers: And Other Stories, Penned in the Margins and Slightly Foxed. The flier I produced for the series is here: Indie Presses 2
09.09 – 09.11 – As a bookseller at the London Review Bookshop, a good deal of my time was spent writing advertising copy for certain titles, which appeared fortnightly as part of the bookshop’s advertisement in the London Review of Books. In total I wrote at least fifty of these, a few examples of which follow.
The Art of the Siesta by Thierry Paquot
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
The Empire Stops Here by Philip Parker
Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
I have also independently conceived of the theme and written about half of the copy for two single page adverts, Murder, They Wrote and Quiet Please! A readers’ guide to silence.
08/11 – 09/11 – During an editorial internship with Granta magazine I wrote publicity copy for some of the pieces in Granta 117: Horror, which can be seen here: 117 Summaries Dan
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- Searching for Jossie: Surface & Underground in the Layered Landscape September 17, 2017My collaborative piece with the artist David Walker Barker is on display as part of the In the Open exhibition, until 29th September, at the Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA), … Continue reading →daneltro
- ASLE-UKI & Land2 2017 (3): Electric Arc Furnace ecopoetry special edition September 5, 2017Electric Arc Furnace #4: ecopoetry special edition 7-9pm Bank Street Arts Free entry, all welcome [poster design: Leire Barrera Medrano] With ASLE-UKI & Land2, & part of the evening event … Continue reading →daneltro
- ASLE-UKI & Land2 2017 (2)––Pastorals: Landscapes of Transhumance September 3, 2017What is a sheep – a source of revenue, an organic and self-renewable resource, a grazing unit, a system of biochemical transfer leading to patterns of muscle and fat development, … Continue reading →daneltro
- ASLE & Land2 2017 (1): Collaboration with David Walker Barker & Panel ‘Surface & Underground’, Elsecar Heritage Centre August 28, 2017The first of several posts detailing the HECTIC ACTIVITY going into ASLE-UKI & Land2’s biennial conference, Cross Multi Inter Trans, to be held at Sheffield Hallam next week (6-8 Sept … Continue reading →daneltro
- A Travelling Life: Dorothy Richardson’s Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Travel Journals July 10, 2017Duplicate publication from the John Rylands Research Institute blog. I was Early Career Visiting Research Fellow at the Rylands in winter/spring this year, and this is what I was up … Continue reading →daneltro
- a fragment June 28, 2017 daneltro
- Diisonance Readings, Bank St Arts, Fri 23rd June June 16, 2017 daneltro
- R/S Res.: Poetics of Reserve in the Layered Landscape, University of Nottingham Poetry Seminar Series June 16, 2017 daneltro
- Reading at Red Deer tomorrow (SHU Postgrad Conference Event) May 31, 2017 daneltro
- Cairn Almanac published by Hesterglock Press May 8, 2017Delighted that my volume of shepherd-cycle pastoral-georgics, Cairn Almanac, has come out with Hesterglock Press! With pictures! (of the ‘Knowledge Quarter’ in construction, c. 2015). Buy it here & get sent … Continue reading →daneltro
