Come along to this great event. Date below. More details HERE
READING AND BEING READ
with Comma Press, If P Then Q, Michelle Green, Holly Pester & ZimZalla
MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY
Performance Room, Ground Floor
St Peter’s Square, City Centre, M2 5PD
11am to 4pm, 12 November 2016
Conceptual poetics takes Marcel Duchamp’s approach to visual art and extends it to poetry.
Join us at the opening of this exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to readings from some of the poets and publishers associated with this avant-garde poetic practice.
The conceptualist movement has become perhaps the most contested but also one of the most popular movements in contemporary poetry. Focusing on poets and artists in the current UK scene, this exhibition features work published by presses such as if p then q, Information as Material and ZimZalla.
The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall
Admission is free but space is limited. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to reserve your place.
if p then q author Lucy Harvest Clarke has a special little thing available now from avant objects publisher zimZalla:
“A series of 12 poems of 12 lines each overlaid on card globes each line for each 12 lines of latitude where 12 different correspondents are simultaneously creating one poem in a single globe and the work to be titled “World Banner” also consisting of a legend of all the poems included in the purchase price of £12 per globe.”
