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Monday, June 20, 2016

TUESDAY 28th JUNE 2016

TUESDAY 28th JUNE 2016
Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
Refreshments available for purchase
Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

GARETH FARMER
NISHA RAMAYYA
JEFF HILSON

Gareth Farmer is a literary scholar and lecturer in English Literature. He writes on poetry, poetics, literary experimentation and theory and is author of Pomes, Diurnal Sweigh and Strategic Forms.

Nisha Ramayya’s pamphlet Notes on Sanskrit (2015) is published by Oystercatcher Press; her second pamphlet, Correspondences, is forthcoming. Her work can be found in Ambit, Datableed, Jungftak: A Journal for Prose-Poetry, Quaderna: A Multilingual and Transdisciplinary Journal, and Visual Verse.

Jeff Hilson’s publications include stretchers (2006, Reality Street), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) (2008, Reality Street), Bird bird (2009, Landfill) and In The Assarts (2010, Veer Books). He is currently working on two long poem-sequences parts of which have appeared in Open Letter, Fence, English, Zone, Litmus, Molly Bloom and Cambridge Literary Review as well as with Crater and Oystercatcher Press. Both poems will be out soon(ish) with Crater and new press Boiler House. Jeff teaches Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton, London and runs the reading series Xing the Line.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Tuesday, May 17, 2016

FRIDAY 27th MAY 2016

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
Refreshments available for purchase

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

GRAHAM HARTILL 
AMY DE'ATH 
ALLEN FISHER
  

Amy De’Ath’s poetry chapbooks include ON MY LOVE FOR gender abolition (Capricious 2016), Lower Parallel (Barque 2014), Caribou (Bad Press 2011), and Erec & Enide (Salt 2010). With Fred Wah, she is the editor of a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press 2015). Her criticism has appeared in Women: A Cultural Review, Anguish Language (Archive Books 2015), and Cambridge Literary Review, and is forthcoming in After Objectvism: Reconfiguring 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (U of Iowa P 2017). She is a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University and lives in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territories.

Graham Hartill's latest collection is Chroma (Boiled String, 2013). He also publishes collaborative translations (with Wu Fu-Sheng) from classical Chinese and essays on poetics and creative writing in health and social care settings. He works as a writer in residence in HMP Parc and teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute.

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher and art historian, lives in Hereford, UK. Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University; over 150 single-authored publications of poetry, graphics, aesthetic theory and art documentation; exhibited in many shows from Tate Britain to King’s Gallery York. Examples of his work in the Tate Collection, The King’s Archive London, the Living Museum, Iceland and various British and international private collections. Last single-artist show was at the Apple Store Gallery Hereford in 2013. Two recent books of poetry and image were: TIP REGARD, and SPUTTOR. A second edition of the collected PLACE books of poetry was published earlier this year, the collected GRAVITY books are scheduled for publication in autumn, 2016. There is a book of essays on poetry and art, IMPERFECT FIT, due from University of Alabama Press also this autumn.




Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

FRIDAY 29th APRIL, 2016

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
refreshments available for purchase

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

PETER GIZZI

SUZE M. C. DE LEE

D S MARIOTT 
 

Peter Gizzi's most recent books include In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems (2014), Threshold Songs (2011) and The Outernationale (2007). A new book, Archeophonics, is forthcoming this fall. He is currently the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. 

Suze M. C. De Lee is an artist.

D S Mariott teaches at University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of The Bloods (Shearsman, 2011), and In Neuter (Equipage, 2013). Whither Fanon? is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Monday, February 29, 2016

THURSDAY 10th MARCH, 2016

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
refreshments available for purchase

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

SANDEEP PARMAR
author of Eidolon and The Marble Orchard
 

TOM JENKS
author of Spruce, Items, and The Tome of Commencement
 

CAROL WATTS
author of many weathers wildly comes, Sundog, and Occasionals
 

Sandeep Parmar  has published two books of poetry: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon, and scholarly works on modernist women writers Nancy Cunard, Hope Mirrlees and Mina Loy. Her edition of Mirrlees's poetry appeared from Carcanet in 2011 and she's currently editing the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). She teaches in the English department at the University of Liverpool where she is Co-Director of the Centre for New and International Writing. Her poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Poetry Review and the Times Higher Education.

Tom Jenks' most recent book is Spruce (Blart Books). He co-organises The Other Room reading series, administers the avant objects imprint zimZalla and is completing a PhD at Edge Hill University. More at http://zshboo.org 



Carol Watts lives in London. She is Professor of Literature and Poetics at Birkbeck. Recent poetry includes the collections many weathers wildly comes (Spiralbound/Susakpress 2015), Sundog (Veer Books, 2013) and Occasionals (Reality Street Editions, 2011). 56, a collection with George Szirtes, will be published by Arc this year. She is currently working on a project for vinyl called T.R.E.E. with the sound artist Will Montgomery, made from creaking trees and rare earths.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Wednesday, December 16, 2015

THURSDAY 25th FEBRUARY, 2016

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
refreshments available for purchase

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

LYNDON DAVIES
author of A Colomber in the House of Poesy, editor of Aquifer Books

AMY McCAULEY
poetry editor at New Welsh Review

RHYS TRIMBLE
author of Swansea Automatic, Rejectamenta, and Hexerisk

Lyndon Davies has published three collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006), Shield (Parthian Press 2010) and A Colomber in the House of Poesy (Aquifer 2014). He runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature and art, and recently set up Aquifer Books, which publishes mainly poetry-centred writing with an experimental bias. He also edits an online magazine of art and literature called Junction Box.

Amy McCauley's poetry, essays and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including: The Poetry of Sex (Viking), Hallelujah for 50ft Women (Bloodaxe), Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt), Poetry Wales, Magma and The Rialto. Current projects include a collection of poems (Auto-Oedipa), which re-imagines the Oedipus myth, and a verse novel (CaNToS of JoaN).

Rhys Trimble is a Welsh poet, performer, avant garde chef and honey badger enthusiast, studying for a PhD, author of 10 or more chapbooks, recents include: SWANSEA AUTOMATIC (experimental novel) (Aquifer), REJECTAMENTA (contraband) and HEXERISK (knives forks and spoons).Lyndon Davies has published three collections of poetry, Hyphasis (Parthian Press 2006), Shield (Parthian Press 2010) and A Colomber in the House of Poesy (Aquifer 2014). He runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature and art, and recently set up Aquifer Books, which publishes mainly poetry-centred writing with an experimental bias. He also edits an online magazine of art and literature called Junction Box.




Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Monday, November 16, 2015

FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

NAT RAHA
JOHN GOODBY
ARON JONES


Nat Raha is a poet and queer / trans* activist living in South London. Her poetry includes '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013), 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010). She has performed her work internationally, and poems have recently appeared in Dusie, Datableed, Asphodel and We Have Always Been Here zine. She is currently undertaking a PhD on Marxism in queer theory, and contemporary poetry, at the University of Sussex.

John Goodby, poet, critic and translator: author of uncaged sea, Wine Night White and Illennium; translator of Pierre Reverdy, Adel Guemar's State of Emergency (Arc; with Tom Cheesman) Heine's Germany: A Winter's Tale (Smokestack), Pier Paolo Pasolini; editor of the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas; co-organiser, with Lyndon Davies, of the Hay Poetry Jamboree 2009-12.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Friday, October 16, 2015

FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

COLE SWENSEN
DAVID GREENSLADE
CAMILLA NELSON


Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry, most recently Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Gravesend (U. of California Press, 2012), and a volume of essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She co-edited the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and was guest editor of the 2014 Best American Experimental Writing from Omnidawn Press. A translator of contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism, she is the founding editor of La Presse Books (www.lapressepoetry.com), which specializes in contemporary experimental French writing translated by English-language poets. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, among others. She divides her time between Paris and Providence, Rhode Island in the U.S., where she teaches at Brown University.

David Greenslade is a reluctant surrealist and isn't sure why.  Recent books include Rarely Pretty Reasonable – made with thirty visual artists – and Free Style, a collaborative translation of Czech surreal poet Josef Janda. His work has a theatrical dimension and has been broadcast on television.

Camilla Nelson is a poet, text-artist, researcher and collaborator across a range of disciplines. She is poetry editor for The Goose and founding editor of Singing Apple Press. Her first full collection Apples & Other Languages was long-listed for the 2015 Melita Hume Poetry Prize and is due to be published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press in May 2016.




Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Monday, September 21, 2015

WEDNESDAY 30th SEPTEMBER

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

*With this event, we want to welcome new arrivals to Cardiff and encourage them to get involved in the Poetry Experiment! Copies of the new Cardiff-based experimental poetry journal ZARF will also be for sale, with two of its contributors performing.*

Featuring:
AMY McCAULEY
author of Slops and CaNToS of JoaN
plus a performance of Chorusing, a Greek drama inspired collaboration with Wanda O'Connor

KATRIN SELINA LLOYD
recently featured in Poetry Wales and ZARF

VAHNI CAPILDEO
author of No Traveller Returns, Utter, and Simple Complex Shapes

Amy McCauley’s poetry, essays and reviews have appeared widely in UK magazines and anthologies including: The Poetry of Sex (Viking), Hallelujah for 50ft Women (Bloodaxe), British Poetry 2015 (Salt), Poetry Wales, The Rialto and The Quietus. Her pamphlet Slops was shortlisted for the Pighog/Poetry School Prize 2014 and in 2008 she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Amy’s current projects include: a collection of poems (Auto-Oedipa) which re-imagines the Oedipus myth and a verse novel (CaNToS of JoaN) which was longlisted for the KCL Responses to Modernism Prize 2015. Amy is a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University and poetry editor for New Welsh Review.

Featured in Poetry Wales, Zarf, and Seren, Katrin Selina Lloyd's poetry is (mostly) honest in its autobiographical nature - attempting to find worth in the ordinary. After studying Creative Writing at Bangor University, Katrin moved to Cardiff where she lives and writes and drinks raspberry cream soda. Co-author of Versions/Fersiynau, which will appear in the next edition of Poetry Wales.

Vahni Capildeo, a Trinidadian British writer, dissolves genre, time, and place, seeking to haunt, immerse and provoke. She has worked as a lexicographer, for Commonwealth Writers, and in academia. Awarded the Harper-Wood Studentship at St. John's College, Cambridge, she will travel to Africa and the Caribbean in 2015-16 for site-specific research. Author of No Traveller Returns (Salt, 2003), Person Animal Figure (Landfill, 2005), Undraining Sea (Eggbox, 2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (Eggbox, 2012), Utter (Peepal Tree, 2013), Simple Complex Shapes (Shearsman, 2015) and Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, forthcoming 2016).



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Monday, August 31, 2015

UPCOMING AUTUMN 2015

September 30: Vahni Capildeo, Amy McCauley (featuring a Greek drama collaboration with Wanda O'Connor), Katrin Selina Lloyd. Event to be held at Waterloo Teahouse, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff centre, 7:30 p.m. start time.

October 30: Cole Swensen, Camilla Nelson, David Greenslade. Event to be held at Waterloo Teahouse, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff centre, 7:30 p.m. start time.

December 4th event readers to be announced.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Saturday, June 13, 2015

WEDNESDAY 24th JUNE

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:
JOHN CAGE’s ONE^7
performed by EEF

followed by:

PETER FINCH AND ASHLEY JOHN LONG VISIT LIDL

performed by PETER FINCH (author of Zen Cymru, Selected Later Poems, and hammer lieder helicopter speak) and bassist ASHLEY JOHN LONG

Eef is a freelance screen and stage actor based in Cardiff: http://eefbonnet.net/

Peter Finch is a poet is a full-time poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He has published more than twenty-five books of poetry including Zen Cymru, published by Seren Books, and The Welsh Poems from Shearsman in 2006. His Selected Later Poems was published by Seren in 2007. A recent work is hammer lieder helicopter speak, a sonic history of twentieth century music published by p.o.w. ( poetry / oppose / war ).

Ashley John Long is a double bassist active internationally as a soloist and ensemble performer. Recent albums include "Back in your own Backyard" with Chris Hodgkins and "The Ripefruit Session" with Tom Jackson.


Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Tuesday, May 5, 2015

TUESDAY 12th MAY

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by tea, cake and discussions

Waterloo Teahouse
Wyndham Arcade,
Cardiff City Centre,
CF10 1FH
(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:
Samantha Walton
D. E. Oprava
Peter Jaeger

Samantha Walton is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Amaranth, Unstitched (Punch Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Animal Pomes from Crater Press. She's read at events including the UEA Poetry Festival, Surrey Poetry Festival, Lit Live at Goldsmiths and as part of Enemies collaborations in London, Edinburgh and Wales. In 2015 Samantha will be Poet in Residence at the SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word in Cork, Ireland. Tweets @samlwalton

D.E. Oprava is an American-born writer who has lived in Wales for almost two decades. He has published six collections of poetry, the latest of which, The Last Museum of Laughter, was highly commended by the 2014 Forward Prizes for Poetry and he recently won the 2015 London Book Fair Poetry Prize for Haiku. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University and has work forthcoming from Red Hen Press and Pighog Press in 2016.

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian text-based artist, poet, and literary critic now living in London. He is the author of eleven books, and his most recent publications include John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics (Bloomsbury 2013), 540493390 (Veer Press 2014), and A Field Guide to Lost Things (forthcoming this year from If P then Q Press). Jaeger is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London.


Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Friday, March 6, 2015

FRIDAY 13th MARCH

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, followed by drinks and discussion

Butetown History and Arts Centre
4 Dock Chambers, Stryd Bute, Cardiff Bay

Featuring:
Steven Hitchins
Kate North
Nia Davies

Steven Hitchins' work includes The Basin (LPB, 2011), Palisade Winters (LPB, 2011), Bitch Dust (Hafan, 2012), and the performance pieces microtopias (Bath Arts Fringe Festival, 2013) and Red Light Radio (North Wales International Poetry Festival, 2014). He edits The Literary Pocket Book, publishing contemporary experimental poetry in miniature origami-fold editions.

Kate North is the author of Bistro (2012), a poetry collection, and Eva Shell (2008), a novel. She also writes short fiction. She is interested in urban life and the impact of technology on writing and identity and in communicating scientific and medical subjects through creative writing. www.katenorth.co.uk, @katetnorth

Nia Davies was born in Sheffield and studied English at the University of Sussex. Her pamphlet Then Spree came out from Salt in 2012. In addition to her work with Literature Across Frontiers and Wales Literature Exchange, Nia’s current projects include collaborations with other poets and artists and co-editing the online journal Poems in Which. In 2014 she took over the editorship of the international magazine Poetry Wales. Her next publication is Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words. Nia's interests include translation and international poetry, cultural activism and poetry’s relation to sound, listening and other art forms. Her poems have been published internationally and translated into Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Chinese, Slovak and Spanish.


Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy. 


Thursday, February 5, 2015

FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY

Cardiff Poetry Experiment 

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, followed by drinks and discussion

Butetown History and Arts Centre
4 Dock Chambers, Stryd Bute, Cardiff Bay

Featuring:
Calum Gardner
Cris Paul
Zoë Skoulding

Calum Gardner is a poet and PhD student from Glasgow, Scotland, currently researching a dissertation on Roland Barthes and English-language poetry at Cardiff University. Calum's poetry has been published in journals such as Aufgabe and Zone and in 2014 was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize.

Cris Paul is a writer and artist from Wales, based in Caerphilly. His work could be described as ‘late modernist’, and through Bob Cobbing’s Writers Forum workshop, his time living in South America, his outlook was shaped enormously. His poetry, journalism, and criticism have been published widely in the Guardian as well as vital small press publications (Skald, Openned, Bad Press, Greatworks, Onedit). He has contributed to Wales Arts Review and Poetry Wales. His first book, Mantras for the City from the City, was published by Writers Forum and his second, Stenia Cultas Handbook, by Veer Books.

Zoë Skoulding is a poet, translator, editor and critic. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008). She has performed her work at many international festivals, often incorporating electronic sound in her readings as well as collaborating with musicians. Her monograph Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013, and she was editor of Poetry Wales from 2008-2014. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University.


Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.



Friday, November 14, 2014

FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER

Cardiff Poetry Experiment 

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, followed by drinks and discussion

Butetown History and Arts Centre
4 Dock Chambers, Stryd Bute, Cardiff Bay

Featuring:
Wanda O'Connor
Andrew Duncan
John Cage's FOUR6: performed by Eef Bonnet, Flow Maugran, Mary-Anne Roberts, Josh Robinson

FOUR⁶ is John Cage's sixth and last quartet, and one of the last of his Number Pieces, named after the number of performers. Scored for ‘any way of producing sounds (vocalization, singing, playing of an instrument or instruments, electronics, etc.)’, it instructs each player to choose twelve different sounds, with the result that each performance is a kind of world première. The piece is composed using flexible time brackets which instruct the performers as to the time intervals in which they are to play their twelve sounds. This enables the development of a sound world characterized by a great many sonic felicities—and by at least as many near misses or almosts.

Eef is a freelance screen and stage actor who recently moved to Cardiff (http://eefbonnet.net).

Flow Maugran is a Cardiff-based artist. She is primarily a trained percussionist/dancer/singer specialised in West African music (based on traditional Mande rhythms). She founded Teranga Percussion, a non-competitive hand drumming group based in Cardiff, in 2006. She performs, teaches and conducts hand drumming workshops for all. She is also a self-taught crafter/designer using various materials from pure wool to metal wire. She finds inspiration through her extensive past travels, imagination and life experience (http://www.terangapercussion.wix.com/teranga-percussion, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-with-the-Flow-Clothing/150156291707862).

Mary-Anne Roberts is best known as a storyteller and a carnival artist and revivalist. She leads the calypso string-band, Domestic Violins, and co-hosts Acoustic Tuesdays in South Riverside Community Centre on the first Tuesday of every month. She is half of the crwth and voice duo Bragod (http://www.bragod.com).

Josh Robinson is (among other things) a critical theorist, translator and poet, and since 2013 has worked as a lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. His first and so far only finished sequence of poems, Shift Report, was published by Arehouse in 2005.

Wanda O’Connor released ‘damascene road passaggio, selections’ (Above/Ground Press) in 2013, a project that explores Kafka’s intercourse with ghosts through epistolary fragments, and is currently writing a long poem series, work began during a residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in poetry at Cardiff University and has contributed several articles, poems and reviews to publications such as Lemon Hound, Puritan Magazine and the Globe and Mail. She appears in the anthology ‘The Best Canadian Poetry 2014’ (Tightrope Books), released this month.

Andrew Duncan’s books of poetry include Cut Memories and False Commands, Sound Surface, Alien Skies, Pauper Estate, Switching and Main Exchange, Anxiety before Entering a Room, and Savage Survivals. He co-edits the magazine Angel Exhaust and has also published Origins of the Underground and The Council of Heresy, reflections on modern poetry.



Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.