if p then q readings @ Peste, Manchester, M4 5EB
Featuring Peter Jaeger & Maggie O’Sullivan
Thursday 9th March, 7 pm, free entry
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Peter Jaeger is a Canadian writer, artist and musician based in Bristol and London. He is the author of twelve books, including works of poetry and conceptual writing. Publications from if p then q include A Field Guide to Lost Things (2015), a dictionary of things from the natural world in Proust’s The Swan’s Way, and Midamble (2018) and Postamble (2021), both of which explore walking and spiritual philosophies.
His is a poetry of minimalist immersion. We are situated in. We give over to the lessons of any moment, of all detail. – angela rawlings
Maggie O’Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. In 1996 she edited the classic anthology of innovative writing by women, Out of Everywhere published by Reality Street. Her work has been anthologised widely, including in Poems for the Millennium Vol 2. She lives in the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.
O’Sullivan’s astonishing courtship of lapwings explores potentialities of typeface, vocalisation and acousmatic continuation-effects, with an attention to living beings under threat. – Adam Piette
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