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. 


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. 


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. 


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. 


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 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. 


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.