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Month: December 2010
Shad Thames, Broken Wharf
Shad Thames, Broken Wharf
by Chris McCabe
Saturday 4 December 2010, 8pm
Tickets £5
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Tickets and Information 0151 702 5324
Spanning centuries of changes across London’s Docklands, this multimedia ‘play of voices’ by poet Chris McCabe eavesdrops on a conversation between Echo, a middle-aged woman who has lived her life in the area, and Blaise, a northerner who finds resonances with the more familiar docks at Liverpool. Breaking into the dialogue, The Restructure is a sinister, all-knowing Public Service Announcement with ‘advice’ to share with anyone who’ll listen…
With accompanying tipsy folk melodies from Bleeding Heart Narrative’s Bartokian piano, strings, synths and sample set, and film from Jack Wake-Walker, Shad Thames, Broken Wharf resonates with what the docks might mean.
“a multiple narrative of various timescapes, set in a constantly evolving Docklands” – Londonist.com
“an elegy, an urban bucolic around the river and its Eastern banks” – Culture Wars
A London Word Festival Commission
Openned – Keston Sutherland, Pat Thomas & Martin Hackett Reading
Maintenant #38 – Volya Hapeyeva
A figure of youthful prominence in Belarus, Volya Hapeyeva is at the very forefront of emergent poets reaching their notoriety in Eastern Europe. A lauded playwright, critic and linguistic philosopher, as well as a poet, her depth and zest have marked her out as one of the most agile stylists writing in Europe at large. Her work is marked by a sensitivity and care that many would find incongruous with her rigour and methodological pragmatism. She makes the conflagration of lyrical poetry & collaborations with Belarussian techno DJ’s seem effortless. We are happy once again to introduce another fantastic young poet as the 38th edition of the Maintenant series.
Accompanying the interview are seven of her poems. It is the first time her work has appeared in the English language.
We are indebted to Chris Michalski for his translations.
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Change of line up for tonight
Unfortunately, weather conditions have forced Ken Edwards to withdraw from tonight’s reading. Richard Barrett will be reading instead. Richard’s first collection, Sidings, was published by White Leaf Press this year. He is the editor of DEPT magazine and co-organises the poetry and performance series Counting Backwards.
The Other Room 21 tonight
UNFIXED
Flat Time House is pleased to host a weekend of events organised by Reading for Reading’s Sake with:
David Berridge, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, Patrick Coyle, Ella Finer, John Hill, Helen Kaplinsky and Stefan Sulzer
UNFIXED is a series of events developed by Reading for Reading Sake (RfRS)
Flat Time House, John Latham Foundation and Archive, London
2-4 December
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