Poetry evenings at Parasol Unit will resume this autumn with Leslie Scalapino and Catherine Wagner on 10 October, Sue Hubbard and Carrie Etter on 31 October and Drew Milne and Allen Fisher on 28 November.
Tuesday, 10 October, 6:30 pm
Leslie Scalapino is one of America’s leading poets. She is the author of some thirty books that cross the boundaries between poetry and prose, among them Considering how exaggerated music is (North Point Press), New Time (Wesleyan University Press), Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), and Defoe (Green Integer). way (North Point Press), received the American Book Award in 1988. An audio CD of her work was released by Stem Recordings, London, in 2004, and a new collection of her poetry, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night, is forthcoming from Green Integer in 2006.
Catherine Wagner's collections of poems include Macular Hole (Fence Books) Miss America (2001), and many chapbooks. She performs widely in the US and UK; new poems and essays appeared recently or are forthcoming in Verse, How2, Five Fingers Review, Action Yes, Soft Targets, New Review, and other magazines. Two compilations she is editing, A Poetry and Politics Primer and an anthology of poetry by mothers, will be published by Fence in 2007. She teaches at Miami University in Ohio.
Tuesday, 31 October, 6:30 pmSue Hubbard is an award winning poet, novelist and art critic. Twice winner of the London writers´competition she was the Poetry Society´s Public Art Poet and created London´s largest poem for the IMAX at Waterloo. She has published a number of pamphelets and two acclaimed collections, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon) and Ghost Station (Salt). Her first novel Depth of Field was published by Dewi Lewis. She is the recepient of a major arts council award to support the writing of her current book. As an art critic she writes artists´catalogues and regularly for The Independent.
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Carrie Etter has published poems in Jacket, The Liberal, Oasis, Poetry Review, Shearsman, and TLS. On her chapbook Subterfuge for the Unrequitable (Potes & Poets, 1998), Ron Silliman remarked, "To 'register the tongue's torque,' Carrie Etter's poems show great skill and a willingness to take risks, both rare things in a 'first book.' This writing is simultaneously 'out there' and always also immediately present (in the most literal sense of 'with it'), an experience that is by turns centering and dizzying. It's quite a ride."
Tuesday, 28 November, 6:30 pm
Allen Fisher, poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, has produced over one hundred and thirty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics, and art documentation. He is Professor of Poetry & Art and Head of Contemporary Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire, Alsager. His last three books were Place (Reality Street); Entanglement (The Gig), and Gravity (Salt Publications), and his CD Gravity Shapes is avalaible from Stem.Most recently, Barque Press published his pamphlet singularity stereo.
Drew Milne’s books of poetry include Sheet Mettle (Alfred David Editions), Bench Marks (Alfred David Editions), The Damage: new and selected poems (Salt), Mars Disarmed (The Figures), and most recently Go Figure (Salt). His work is featured in numerous collections and anthologies, notably Conductors of Chaos, edited by Iain Sinclair (Picador) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, ed. Keith Tuma (Oxford University Press). He edits the occasional journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing and the poetry imprint Parataxis Editions. He co-edited Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (Blackwell) with Terry Eagleton, and has recently edited the anthology Modern Critical Thought (Blackwell). As well as publishing a wide range of critical essays, he has books forthcoming on Marxist literary theory and on performance criticism, as well as a collection of his essays on poetry forthcoming from Salt. Sections from a novel in progress entitled The Prada Meinhof Gang have appeared in a number of journals, including Edinburgh Review.
