Ad Finitum reviewed by Matt Dalby

Be prepared for the possibility that I will get many things horribly, hilariously wrong. The motivation for this post and the others that will follow, although I’m not currently sure how many that will be, is that I’m simultaneously enjoying and finding it hard to come to an understanding of P.Inman’s work. Therefore I’ve decided to document my thoughts on reading Ad Finitum – which at present I have done in full twice, and will do several times more in the course of these posts.

A thorough review of Ad Finitum by Matt Dalby in three parts…so far!

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Halsey and Monk at Ledbury

4.15pm – 5.15pm, 10 July. Burgage Hall. £8

 

“Alan Halsey will talk about his latest work, the Lives of the Poets, which he has been working on for the past eight years. As the typical literary biography gets heavier and denser, Halsey’s 191 lives take the opposite approach: each Life is a poem distilled in a few highly-concentrated lines. The famous (Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Pope) appear alongside the lesser known and many forgotten poets, including a large number of women, are saluted. Geraldine Monk is an electrifying performer of her poetry, which has appeared in many anthologies and maps the places she has lived with a visceral intensity, as if places possess her. This will be an event full of discoveries and contrasts.”

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Shadowtrain

Issue 29 of Shadowtrain is now online featuring:

  • Rupert M Loydell
  • Angeline Farrow
  • Martin Stannard
  • Peter Hughes
  • Keith Hilling
  • Carole Coates
  • Lia Brooks
  • Libby Hart
  • Nathan Thompson
  • Rufo Quintavalle
  • Ian McMillan on Gavin Selerie

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Antifreeze 2009

Contents May Vary are hosting ANTIFREEZE Manchester’s very first art car boot fair as part of Trade City. ANTIFREEZE is an exhibition about the high-end art market delivered within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical, social, economical, geographical and literal situation.

Saturday 4th July 2009. 12-7pm. Free entry.
MAP

CHIPS Building, Upper Kirby Street, off Old Mill Street, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6EB

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