Blue Bus

(This is the thirty-sixth in THE BLUE BUS series. ()

Philip Kuhn and Tim Allen

Tim Allen was brought up on the Isle of Portland and lives in Plymouth where he runs the Language Club series of readings. Edited the magazine Terrible Work where he became known for his outspoken criticism of the direction of British poetry. His poems appeared widely in the 90's but since then he has been working on long poems and sequences so appearances in magazines are rare. His publications include Texts for a Holy Saturday (Phlebas 1996), The Cruising Duct (Maquette 1998), Sea ExChange (itinerant 2007) and Settings (Shearsman 2008). He also co-edited with Andrew Duncan Don't Start Me Talking (Salt 2006), a volume of interviews with poets. He is an experienced performer of work which one commentator called, 'the strangest surrealism I've ever encountered'.

philip kuhn currently lives & works on Dartmoor from where he also co-hosts the 'occasional readings series'. In July 2007 he founded itinerant press in order to design, print & produce limited edition hand-bound books. Recent publications include at maimonides table (Shearsman 2009), paradoxes becoming (itinerant press 2009), & “His Countenance is Sorrow”, a chap book on the life and works of the German poet Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943). A copy of the essay on Kolmar can be downloaded at: http://www.outofthedarknessproject.org/philip-kuhn-on-kolmar/4532055673 Current projects include how to make radical leaflets (itinerant press, forthcoming) and “Worlds” (1937), a translation, in collaboration with Ruth von Zimmermann, of Gertrud Kolmar’s last known cycle of poems.

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 7:30pm