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To celebrate National Poetry Day, pressfreepress put on four impromptu performances of THE NOTECARDS (text and objects by seekers of lice, performance by pressfreepress)  in various locations around the Southbank Centre. Watch the clip above to see their performance.

The Notecards

seekers of lice writes and prints The Notecards.

Rebecca Cremin and Ryan Ormonde of press free press each receive a set of The Notecards from seekers of lice in the post.

Rebecca Cremin of press free press receives the metronome from seekers of lice in the post.

Ryan Ormonde of press free press receives the folding ruler from seekers of lice in the post.

Identical costumes are chosen.

The Notecards are performed in the Reading Room of Arnolfini in Bristol as part of ’4 Days’ and in association with VerySmallKitchen on 26/4/2013.

The Notecards wait to be performed again.

Press Free Press Respond

press free press RESPOND: A monthly series of active reading. Each month we choose two publications available to read in the Poetry Library – the selection is based on browsing and instinct. We are mostly interested in reading new work. In the library we each have 20 minutes to read each publication. Outside the library we are talking and writing in response: talking (5 minutes) / writing (5 minutes) / reading each other / repeat x 4. Resulting 12 documents are unedited recordings of live talking and unedited transcriptions of live writing. We hope this series will encourage dialogue between poets and books. This month, ‘Waffles’ by Matthew Welton and ‘Appeal in Air’ by Philip Davenport: