Posted: Tue 24th Feb 2015

The Tales We Tell Closing Event

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This article is old - Published: Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015

Location: Undegun

Date: 28th February 2015

Time: 2pm-5pm

Details: The final afternoon sees a gathering of poets and writers responding to the installation in varying ways…. without giving too much away, this really will be an event not to be missed, we are honoured to swell the participants list with such literary luminaries!

Performers

Allen Fisher
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter and art historian, website: www.allenfisher.co.uk. He has authored many publications of poetry, graphic work and commentary; recently: SPUTTOR, a book of the poetry, commentary and visual work (Veer Books 2014); The Marvels of Lambeth. Interviews & Statements, 1973-2005, edited by Andrew Duncan (Shearsman Books 2013); a collection of essays is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press (2015). His visual work is in many collections in America, Britain and the UAE. In autumn 2014, Spanner Editions will publish TIP REGARD, a set of extracts from poetry in four projects. Allen is currently Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, one of Key poets at Voiceworks, Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University.

Anthony Mellors
Anthony Mellors’s poetry has appeared in various anthologies, fugitive chapbooks, and journals such as Grille, Exact Change Yearbook, Great Works, Angel Exhaust, Angelaki, and Poetry Wales. Recent poems and sequences are included in The Lewknor Turn, published in September 2013 by Shearsman. With Andrew Lawson, he edited fragmente: a magazine of contemporary poetics. Critical work includes Late Modernist Poetics from Pound to Prynne (Manchester University Press, 2005), ‘Autopsia: Olson, Themis, Pausanias’ (Modernism / Modernity, 2012), ‘Aesthetic Economy and Given Time’ (SubStance, 2013), and ‘Disabled Poetry’, forthcoming in Textual Practice.

Lyndon Davies
Lyndon Davies is a poet, reviewer, essayist and musician living in Powys. He has published three collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006), Shield (Parthian Press 2010) and A Co

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