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October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 daneltro

Militant Ecologies reading group 4: the prison (& 3: militant feminisms)

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  • Radical Translation event at Lyra Festival Bristol (9 April 5pm) April 7, 2022
    Radical Translation explores politically and artistically “radical” approaches to poetry in translation, featuring poets and translators published by or connected with Bristol-based small publisher Girasol Press. We’ll hear from Say, Spirit, Sheffield-based poet Alex Cocker’s experimental translations of Michelangelo’s sonnets, which tease out questions of a […]
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  • Innovative Poetics Research Seminar: “False Maps: Latin America, Little Magazines, and the British Poetry Revival in the 1970s” February 24, 2022
    Tonight at 6pm! Innovative Poetics Research Seminar: “False Maps: Latin America, Little Magazines, and the British Poetry Revival in the 1970s“. I’ll be discussing Tom Raworth (a little bit), Beau Geste Press & Allen Fisher, some little mags & translations from the 70s, Peru & Movimiento Hora Zero, guerrilla art & actual guerrillas….Let me kn […]
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  • Panel: Approaches to Eco-translation November 24, 2021
    Back in the wild/world! All welcome to Approaches to Eco-translation, an IRL event 5-7pm, 25 November 2021, University of Warwick (+ live stream), hosted by Jonathan Skinner. Very excited to hear talks by Jennifer Scappetone & Zoë Skoulding. I’ll be talking about why flies are a bit like guerrilla fighters, more-than-human liberation, Nicanor Parra…. […]
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  • Militant Ecologies reading group 4: the prison (& 3: militant feminisms) October 11, 2021
    All welcome to the 4th militant ecologies reading group: the next session will be on the prison, on Monday 25 Oct at 6pm, reading poetry by Kuwasi Balagoon, Assata Shakur, Nazim Hikmet, Saul López de la Torre & Saida Menebhi, from the US, Turkey, Mexico and Morocco respectively. Get in touch for the readings & zoom […]
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  • Review of David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics in Criticism (Summer 2021) September 14, 2021
    I wrote a long-ish review of David Farrier’s excellent Anthropocene Poetics for Criticism, back in the Big Before (i.e. January 2020, which kind of illustrates my point about the fast-and-slow times of academic publishing!). I know this because I wrote it sitting in a cafe, which would shortly become an unthinkably glamorous & exciting way […]
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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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