CAESURA #18
This event on 8th November 2013 at 19:00 has past.
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That is: Sandra Alland, Iain Morrison, Karen Veitch and James Leveque
WHAT IS IT? Bespoke spoken word performances at Edinburgh's monthly night of racketeers and raconteurs, experiments and experience, synapses and sounds. Avante-jive for the masses.
SANDRA ALLAND
Sandra Alland is a writer, filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been published and presented throughout the UK, North America and Europe. Sandra's poetic love-affair with voice-activated software and disability poetics, Naturally Speaking, was published in 2012 by Toronto’s espresso Books. In 2009, Edinburgh's Forest Publications published Sandra's chapbook of short fiction, Here's To Wang, which quickly went into a second printing. Sandra has published widely, including two other books of poetry: Blissful Times (BookThug, Toronto); and Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan, Toronto). She was guest editor at Jacket2 for a special edition on Scottish poets in 2012.
- www.blissfultimes.ca
IAIN MORRISON
Iain Morrison serially lost kitten slipper and voguer, Dickinsonian Mirror's son, who despite veering all over the shop, remains interested loyally in sound structures and overlays in support/distort of meaning structure; expresses this in poems at present. Hoping to present new poem sequence at Caesura. At time of writ, proven in clinical trials to be enjoying whatever was happening way too much.
KAREN VEITCH
Karen Veitch grew up in Glasgow, where she currently resides. In 2013 she completed her doctorate studies at the University of Sussex in political and working-class women’s poetry of the Depression Era United States. She has translated Spanish poetry (such as by Pedro Salinas) into English and her work has been published in Comparative American Studies and SCREE.
JAMES LEVEQUE
James Leveque was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on Fresno, California. He has lived in Edinburgh since 2009. He is completing a PhD in literature and works as a tutor. His poetry has appeared in SCREE and the San Joaquin Review.
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Time: 7:00pm
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