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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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- Book chapter, ‘Commoning nostalgia: making “Romantic sensibility sustainable” in contemporary poetry’, in Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability April 1, 2019On, in order of appearance: Peter Larkin & R. F. Langley; Anne-Lise Francois; J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley & The English Intelligencer; Sean Bonney & Stephen Collis; and Lisa Robertson. … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the Vale of Tintern’, article in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Autumn 2018) March 13, 2019Abstract: (to download one of 50 free e-prints go here). This article reads the poetry of J. H. Prynne of the early- to mid-1970s through an ecocritical lens, arguing that … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Poetics in Commons’ Symposium & Performances, 22-23 May, CPP Sheffield February 27, 201922-23 May 2019, Centre for Poetry & Poetics, University of Sheffield (Venues TBC) Keynote: Anne Boyer ‘Poetics in Commons’ explores the potential of literature and art to create and reinvent … Continue reading →daneltro
- Centre for Poetry & Poetics Spring Schedule, Sheffield 2019 February 3, 2019 daneltro
- PBC Reading, Gulliver’s NQ (Manchester), Sat 9th Feb (4.30pm) w/ Denise Riley, Ágnes Lehóczky & Gareth Twose January 29, 2019 daneltro
- Poetry & Translation discussion & readings, Fri 1st Feb, Sheffield January 28, 2019 daneltro
- Mexican Democracy January 28, 2019In July 2018, I was part of the UK delegation to observe the Mexican electoral process, organised by the Mexican pro-transparency network RUCD (Red Universitaria y Ciudadana por la Democracia) … Continue reading →daneltro
- ‘Five a Week’ in Blackbox Manifold + review January 24, 2019My long-ish poem, ‘Five a Week’, is out in full in the latest Blackbox Manifold, No. 21 (Winter 2018). As ever, there’s a really good selection of work in the … Continue reading →daneltro
- Reading at Xing the Line 20 Dec (7.30pm) December 10, 2018poetry: xing the line, 20 Dec, 7.30pm. Dan Eltringham : Beth Hopkins & Andrew Spragg : Samantha Walton. I K L E C T I K, ‘Old Paradise Yard’ 20 Carlisle … Continue reading →daneltro
- Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts > 22 Dec December 10, 2018Trespass! Exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts until 22 December 2018. This exhibition explores the relationship between visual art and text based work on the broad theme of walking in forbidden … Continue reading →daneltro
