Word Games

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Taking as their theme Abram Games' credo, "maximum meaning, minimum means", Jewish women poets come together for an afternoon of playful and poetic engagement with questions of language and identity, in a poetry reading curated by the Jewish Museum's Poet in Residence, Aviva Dautch with an introduction to Games' work by Irene Wise. Featuring Linda Black, Yvonne Green, Eve Grubin, Jude Rosen and Leah Thorn.

Linda Black is an artist, an award-winning poet with four published collections, and an editor of Long Poem Magazine.

To read more about Aviva Dautch: www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/Poet-in-Residence

Yvonne Green is a Smith/Doorstop prizewinner and has published several acclaimed collections of original poems and translations, with 4 new books due out in 2014/15.

Eve Grubin’s book of poems, Morning Prayer, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press; she teaches at NYU in London, The Poetry School and the London School of Jewish Studies where she is poet in residence. 

Jude Rosen is a second generation immigrant Jew from the East End, who works as an urban researcher, translator and poet.

Leah Thorn is a Jewish artist/activist and spoken word poet published through performance, film, anthologies and magazines in England and the United States. 

Irene Wise is Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture at University of Roehampton; as an artist and illustrator she has exhibited internationally and been commissioned by The Guardian, OUP and the BBC.

Price: £7.50. (£7.50 (includes museum admission))

Time: 2:30pm