'documents of paradox'

Contact: rascalapache@yahoo.co.uk

Russell J Turner and headCRASH present 'documents of paradox', a poetic spectacle @ The Birdcage, with some of the finest talent around. Doors at 8 for an 8.30 start. Entry is only two of your Earth pounds, and there are free badges for all.

FEATURING:

SEAN BONNEY
...has written Happiness (after Rimbaud), The Commons, Document, Baudelaire in English and Blade Pitch Control Unit. He lives in London, and is writing a book on the intersections between left-wing activism and radical poetics.
http://abandonedbuildings.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/snbonney

AMY DE'ATH
studied at the University of East Anglia and in Philadelphia, US, before moving to Australia and then London. Her publications include Erec & Enide (Salt, 2010), and Andromeda / The World Works for Me (Crater Press, 2010). She has a new chapbook, Caribou, due out soon. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Open Letter: a Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, QUID, Jacket2, Esque, onedit, and Vlak magazine. She lives and works in London, and is currently Poet-in-Residence at the University of Surrey. In September she will begin a PhD in feminist poetry and theory at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
http://amydeath.wordpress.com/

JOE KENNEDY
is a teacher & freelance writer/ editor. Aptly for a writer brought up in heavily-mined north North Yorkshire, his poetry investigates the militarisation of lyric space and the poeticising of military and industrial processes.
http://adrawingsympathy.blogspot.com/

ANDREW MCDONNELL
is a poet interested in elisions that haunt landscapes and cities. It is poetry that explores the edges of motorways, ghostlines and picks up the voices hidden between radio stations.

ANDREW SPRAGG
is a poet, performer and critic. He is currently studying for a Creative Writing MA at Goldsmiths, London. His first book The Fleetingest was published May 2011 by Red Ceiling Press. His second, Notes for Fatty Cakes, is forthcoming.
www.brokenloop.blogspot.com/See more

Price: £2.00

Time: 8:30pm