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Tag: avant-garde

March 29, 2021 daneltro

Talk on ‘Tom Raworth “in Nahuatl”‘, Avant-Gardes @ Zero Hour: European, American, Transnational (7th April 8pm BST)

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  • Poetry in Transatlantic Translation, summer colloquium: Networks, Magazines & Materials June 28, 2021
    The fourth & final event in the Poetry in Transatlantic Translation summer colloquium (organized by Prof. Zoë Skoulding & Dr Dan Eltringham, ContemPo & Centre for Poetry & Poetics, Bangor & Sheffield). Free, all welcome; register here.
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  • “Tom Raworth in/against translation”: Avant-garde Studies reading group, Birkbeck College. 16 June 7.30pm BST June 16, 2021
    Contact me or Avant-Garde Studies directly for link & readings. Pictured: Face Press edition of Raworth’s translation of the prose collaborations of Vicente Huidobro and Hans Arp, submitted as his MA thesis at the University of Essex, 1970.
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  • Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Summer Colloquium May 13, 2021
    Happy to announce this virtual poetry colloquium series that Zoë Skoulding and I have put together on “poetry in transatlantic translation” (broadly conceived), ahead of an IRL (!) conference in Bangor, North Wales, June 2022. All very welcome! The first event is on Monday May 17th with Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour and Abigail Lang. More […]
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  • Talk on ‘Tom Raworth “in Nahuatl”‘, Avant-Gardes @ Zero Hour: European, American, Transnational (7th April 8pm BST) March 29, 2021
    What *was* the deal with Tom Raworth & Mexico? For those who’ve pondered that niche w/in a niche: I’m speaking on ‘Tom Raworth “in Nahuatl”‘ at “Avant-Gardes @ Zero Hour: European, American, Transnational“, 5-7 April (7th April 8pm BST). Four panels in total, take a look at the programme here. Thanks to Barrett Watten & […]
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  • ASLE 2021 PANEL: MILITANT ECOLOGIES March 17, 2021
    In her 1968 collection Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima issued an all-caps injunction: ‘BLOW UP THE PETROLEUM LINES.’ ‘[M]ake the cars / into flower pots or sculptures or live / in the bigger ones,’ she suggests, ‘why not?’ In the thick of multiple emergencies, the contemporary re-emergence of di Prima’s resonant question – ‘why not?’ – […] […]
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  • ‘militant ecologies’ reading group February 9, 2021
    Next meeting of the ‘militant ecologies’ reading group, reading guerrilla poetry, will be Monday 22nd February, 6pm UK time. All welcome. Readings here. Contact, me, Fred Carter or Lotte L.S. for zoom details.
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  • Tom Raworth’s ‘translation’ [Four Late Night Poems, Moving, 1971] October 15, 2020
    I’ve been trying to figure out how Tom Raworth’s two-line lyric, ‘translation’, one of ‘Four Late Night Poems’ included in 1971’s Moving, encourages the reader to think about translation, or to ask what is the second-order conceptual move necessary to connect the image-complex with the terrain staked out by the title. The poem is just: […]
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  • Translating environments (ecopoetry translation workshop for Being Human Festival) September 30, 2020
    Translating environments What are the environments of translation? That question has been rattling around in my head, in some form or another, at least since reading the poet Cecilia Vicuña’s statement, in an interview with Jonathan Skinner for his journal ecopoetics: ‘poetry is life’s reserve, a forest for the renewal of language, a biodiversity of […] […]
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  • Translating Political Poetry: Talks & Readings (Online Event, 03 Dec 2020) September 29, 2020
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  • ’29 Oct 18′ in Poetics for the More-Than-Human World anthology August 20, 2020
    I have a doomy disaster poem – Bolsonaro, Lorca, extinction, palm oil, tar sands, too much erosion, St Augustine (huh?) – in the Poetics for the More-Than-Human World anthology, up at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, edited by Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan, and dedicated to Michael McClure (1932 – 2020) and Jack […]
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