The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Lawrence Upton, Sarah Kelly and Juliet Troy on Tuesday 15th July from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninetieth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Juliet Troy completed an MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway University in 2013. She has had poetry published in: Poetry Salzburg Review, Fire no.33, and Fire No. 31, Neon Highway, Ver Poets ‘Unguarded Gold’ and 40th Anniversary Anthology, Ver poets Ten Liners and had a poem selected in the recent Ver competition. She is also published in Camden and Lumen’s ‘Genius Floored – Alphabet of Days’, online on ‘Greatworks’, ‘Write Off’ and ‘Neon Highway’. Her Artists Book, ‘Pop up Temple’ was displayed at the ‘Visual Poetics’ exhibition at the Southbank’s Poetry Library. Her ‘Rhythm of Furrows Across a Field’ pamphlet was published by Kater Murr’s Press, in April 2013. She is a committee member of Ver poets and one of the Blue Bus organisers. Juliet is especially interested in Ecopoetics and other innovative approaches that work towards communicating an eco/ethno -logical mindfulness.
Sarah Kelly is the author of ‘locklines’ (KFS Press) and has contributed work to many magazines, journals and literary reviews, including the anthologies ‘Better than Language’ (Ganzfeld Press) and ‘Dear World’ (Bloodaxe). Her text based visual work has been exhibited in the Saison Poetry Library, The London Poetry Festival, SoundEye and TARP Audio-Visual Poetry festival. She is an editor for the bilingual edition ‘AlbaLondres’ and her experimental translation work has been performed at Spain NOW! (London) and MACBA, (Barcelona). www.s-kelly.co.uk
Lawrence Upton: Poet; graphic artist; sound artist: curator. Recent publications wrack (2012); Memory Fictions (2012); and Unframed Pictures (2011). Co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry (1998) with Bob Cobbing, with whom he wrote collaboratively (NB D.A.N. 1994-2000) . Commentaries on Bob Cobbing (2013). Journals: Artist’s Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Emerging Language Practices, Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Readings, Sounds Rite. Second solo exhibition “from recent projects” September 2012 St James Hatcham. Makes text-sound composition with John Levack Drever, Benedict Taylor, Tina Krekels & Jeff Cloke. photo, synthesis (for solo viola) commissioned by to Benedict Taylor (2013), now being premiered. Convenes Writers Forum Workshop, directs Writers Forum . Visiting Research Fellow in Music, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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