Between Soundings presents Notes for Fatty Cakes 8th October 2011 at 8.00 PM
Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX £3
To mark the release of Andrew Spragg’s Notes for Fatty Cakes (published by Anything Anymore Anywhere) Between Soundings has prepared a performance of the text with sound from Julie Groves and Matt Cockshutt. Utilising ambient recordings and live performance, the music has been composed as a specific soundscape response for the occasion.Praise for the book:
‘Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other.”Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.’ Tom Raworth
FC is going to be rubbed into your carefully composed faces, into your delicately frozen critical measurements {…} The punctuation, which has been so diligently learnt in defence of the contemporary, is spilt and walked over with chant and serious weirdness{…}The shrill swazzle of Mr Punch is wired sideways through the PA or intimately whispered over and over again.’
Brian Catling
‘Ranging from ocean to dry-land pub, prairie to outer space, this book’s good-humoured restlessness provokes us to think about relations between self and other. Andrew Spragg is a poet who can love; this book is in love with language without losing a grip on the world.’ Vahni Capildeo Matt Cockshutt http://yellotone.com/mattdefence.htm Julie Groves http://www.juliegroves.com/ Andy Spragg www.brokenloop.blogspot.com Anything Anymore Anywhere http://www.anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk/
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