SPECIAL EDITION 8.00pm Wednesday 3 October 2012
The Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre LONDON SE1 8XX
booking essential: www.specialedition@poetrylibrary.co.uk

Paula Claire presents an illustrated survey of international sound, visual and concrete poetry in our Collection, explaining its importance in the history of 20th-century innovative poetic forms. She offers a unique perspective on the subject supported by her Archive of Sound and Visual Poetry, over 5,000 items gathered by exchanging her Little Press Publications with exponents worldwide.
An experienced performer here and abroad in schools, colleges, arts centres, museums and festivals – Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Houston, Oporto, Cheltenham – she will then involve all present in the diversity of her poems and artists books, explorations during 50 years of writing.
At this event : Book launch to celebrate 50 years of creating poetry:
Catalogue 3: GOING FOR GOLD Poems 2001-11 an annotated and illustrated list with Introduction by Professor Robert Hampson, RHUL. The Library has Catalogue 1: DECLARATIONS Poems 1961-91; Catalogue 2: DI-VERS-ITY – Extending the Forms of Poetry 1991-2001 and nearly 30 other books etc by Paula Claire, see Library database.