Mengham & Langley: Double Book Launch
This event on 28th November 2018 at 18:30 has past.
Contact: jazmine@carcanet.co.uk
Join poets Rod Mengham and Eric Langley at Daunt Books as they celebrate the launch of their new collections.
The launch is free to attend but please reserve your place by booking through the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mengham-langley-double-book-launch-tickets-51248744374 , by calling 0161 834 8730 ext. 22 or by emailing jazmine@carcanet.co.uk.
Grimspound & Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham, is published by Carcanet Press. The book comprises two complementary halves, one is a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound, on Dartmoor) and the other is a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. 'Grimspound' is a four-part work combining prose and verse, composed on site over the course of ten years. It combines a 'wild analysis' of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound), a portrait of the Victorian excavator Sabine Baring-Gould, and a series of poems that draw on the Russian linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky's experimental 'Nostratic Dictionary'. 'Inhabiting Art' gathers essays on cultural history in relation to landscape and cityscape, viewed either episodically or in the form of a palimpsest, where the present state of the habitat both reveals and conceals its own history and prehistory.
Eric Langley's sequence, Degausser: poems I to XV, published by Equipage, takes its lead from a World War II maritime process, whereby the British fleet - in an effort to evade the magnetic triggers of enemy naval mines - underwent the process of "wiping" or "degaussing": long electric cables would be dragged across a ship's sides, "deperming" it, by neutralising its magnetic charge, and rendering it effectively invisible. This process acts as leitmotif to a sequence which thinks through the desirability and limitations of going unnoticed or off-radar, of being wiped clean or of achieving neutrality, considering if it is possible to achieve some form of immunity from the networked or affective environment - the space of communication, the interlacing of channels - into which the contemporary subject is necessarily plunged. Along the way, these verbally and visually active poems are variously elegiac and erotic, playful and desperate.
Entry: Free
Time: 6:30pm
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