NOV2024 / EPF - Winter Camarada / Performance:
A collaborative performance alongside Lavinia Singer, taking place at Rich Mix, London, on the 16th of November. Video here.
More info: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/winter24
OCT2024 / Endre Ruset - Book launch / Reading:
A reading at the launch of Endre Ruset’s Stjålet venn, at Det Andre Teateret in Oslo on the 22nd of October.
OCT2024 / SCRYPTH x Litteratur på Blå / Event curation:
A collaboration between SCRYPTH and Litteratur på Blå, a curated event at Blå, Oslo, on the 1st of October. Featuring Monica Aasprong, Audun Mortensen, Anne Sophie Lorange, Bård Torgersen & Halvor Skiftun Digernes.
More info: litteraturpabla.no/new-events / www.scrypth.com/events
JUL2024 / European Poetry Festival / Performances:
“A dozen free events, with poets from nations across our continent, and across the UK, coming together for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in Britain.”
Performances:
03.07. Norwegian Poetry Celebration at The National Poetry Library, London - collaboration with Lavinia Singer
03.07. Norwegian Poetry Celebration at The National Poetry Library, London - solo reading
07.07. European Camarade at The Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool - collaboration with Michael Sutton
More info: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
JUN2024 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Studio+ Course Spring 2023 / Teaching:
Poetry & the Handwritten: Between Pen & Page Studio+
“Returning to the basics of writing as an act and a practice, this course looks at the way we first began doing so, and seeks out the qualities and consequences of writing by hand. In an ever more digitalised world, we ask what might be gained by embracing the act of writing itself, what might it teach us about ourselves, and how might it invite both intimacy and immediacy. As a prompt and a method, we will consider handwriting from the neurological perspective, what graphology is – and which literary giants were obsessed with it, and how embracing the analogue connects our practice to all sorts of traditions.”
ETC2023 / Publications & translation:
The poem Til Purkyně was published in Prosopopeia 1-4/2023
Four poems were published in Tidsskriftet Addenda No. 10/11 -2023
A translation of Letter to Europe by David Harsent was commissioned by Versoteque and published by Vagant
NOV2023 / Event @ Candid Arts / Reading:
25.11.23, 6pm – Candid Arts, Angel
A performance as part of the “Poetry, Prose and Performance Night”.
More info: 3-16am.co.uk
JUL2023 / swallowing feathers / Book review:
Author, critic and poet Richard Marshall published a review of swallowing feathers on 3:16.
Extract: How to frame Torset’s coordinating metaphors, structures and orders? The poems are scattered like yellow petals of an anguished rose strewn over the feast table. First and probably last word: these are poems after the catastrophe, whose ‘shadows / are deaths or depth traps.’ The rest is speculation. And do we have to do that, speculate and expose? As she herself says, ‘Writing do I have to spell it out I extract myself / and wonder how little is needed before peeling / the self centred onion not concerned with weeping…’
Full article: 3-16am.co.uk
MAY2023 / European Poetry Festival / Performances:
“The EPF returns in spring 2023 for one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in the UK. Eleven events over three weeks will see over one hundred poets from across the continent and the UK come together for a celebration of liveness, collaboration and cross-linguistic collective inventiveness.”
Performances:
22.04. Norwegian Poetry Celebration at Iklectik Artlab, London - collaboration with Jon Ståle Ritland
03.05. Danish Poetry Celebration at Hundred Years Gallery, London - solo reading
06.05. Netherlands Poetry Celebration at Rich Mix, London - collaboration with Yasmin Hafedh
MAY2023 / Stephen Spender Trust - Schools Laureate Prize / Poems for translation:
Four poems in Norwegian selected for the online bank of poems to be used in the Schools Laureate Prize 2023, run by the Stephen Spender Trust.
”The Stephen Spender Prize is the leading annual prize for poetry in translation, with categories for pupils, teachers and individual young people in the UK and Ireland, as well as an Open category for adults from all over the world.”
More info: stephen-spender.org
Poems: stephen-spender.org/listing/vilde-bjerke-torset-a-selection-of-poems-for-students-of-all-ages/
APR2023 / Tidsskriftet Addenda - LAUNCH / Journal:
15.04.23, 1pm–3pm, Galleri Ørn, Rosenørns Alle 44, 1970 Frederiksberg
Issue 10/11 of the Danish/nordic journal Addenda will be launched at an event at Galleri Ørn. Contributors to the issue include Mikas Lang, Tanja Nellemann Kruse, Lina Nordenström, Charlotte Vaillot Knudsen, Fedja Wierød Borčak, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Monica Aasprong, David Kjellin, Sabine Wedege, Leif Achton-Lynegaard, et al. Addenda is for sale at Møllegades Boghandel, Politikens Boghal, BRØG Litteraturbar. Arnold Busck / Købmagergade, Monday Studio, and Academic Books (KUA) in Copenhagen, and Kunsthal Aarhus in Aarhus.
Event: facebook.com
MAR2023 / Translations:
English translations of selected poems by Jon Ståle Ritland were published on Anthropocene Poetry Journal and Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.
FEB2023 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Studio+ Course Spring 2023 / Teaching:
Poetry Through Theatre: Experiments from the Stage Studio+ Course
“Building on the fact that the poetic and the dramatic arts have gone hand in hand since the dawn of both, this course asks what possibilities lie at the intersection of the two. How does language live on the stage? How is the stage set in the poem? What happens to a word which is not spoken, but is written to be spoken? What are the consequences of something that is both real, not real, and real beyond the real?”
FEB2023 / Kristiania University College / Teaching:
Guest lecturing at Kristiania University 30. Jan.-03. Feb, Oslo - Norway.
Workshop on poetry and art with the students from BA Writing, with module leaders Bård Torgersen and Thor Magnus Tangerås.
ETC2022 / Publication and library purchases:
An extract form Like a Mindmap of a Thoughtcloud was published in Buzdokuz 10
The poems how to say anything and observations & other fragments were published on Partisan Hotel
A full bibliography was purchased by the National Library, Norway
The book Pareidolia – Dotremont’s Daughter was purchased by the University of Victoria Library, Canada
NOV2022 / WILDHEART RADIO - THE POETRY BATH / Interview:
An interview with Sian Thomas, with readings from Apollinaire and Other Horses, is broadcast on the independent Sussex radio station Wildhart Radio. Archived here.
More info: wildhartradio.com
NOV2022 / Fichtean Landscapes - Performance evening / Reading:
25.11.22, 7pm – St. John’s Church, Bethnal Green
A collaborative performance with Richard Marshall and Dario Farello for the exhibition Fichtean Landscapes, by Richard Marshall.
More info: 3-16am.co.uk
NOV2022 / Living With Buildings Festival - FINLAY IN MAYFAIR / Short film:
23.11.22, LTB Showrooms, Coventry
The short film FINLAY IN MAYFAIR, made with SJ Fowler, will be screened at Coventry’s Living With Buildings festival run by Adam Steiner.
More info: facebook.com/events
NOV2022 / POEM BRUT / Reading:
19.11.22, 7.30pm – The Rich Mix, Shoreditch
A reading for the return of Poem Brut, launching Apollinaire and Other Horses. A video of the reading is here.
More info: richmix.org.uk/events
SEP2022 / JOHNNY PULP’S PALOMARES - Writer’s Evening / Reading:
23.09.22, 7pm – St. John’s Church, Bethnal Green
A reading as part of the Writer’s Evening, alongside Paul Ewen, Steve Finbow, Patrick Cosgrove, Stewart Home, Fukudapero Hirohisa, Kyoko Yoshida, Johnny Pulp, et al.
More info: 3-16am.co.uk
JUN2022 / European Poetry Festival / Anthology:
A collaboration with Sophie-Carolin Wagner published in an anthology documenting the collaborations that make up the history of the EPF and the ACF, published by Sampson Low.
More info: europeanpoetryfestival.com
JUN2022 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Studio+ Course Spring 2021 / Teaching:
Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken & Unbroken Code – Studio+ Course
”From the assumption that all poetry is based on crafting thought into symbols and all reading is based on the deciphering of these, this course takes a step back from the content of a poem, exploring the hidden potential of its framework and material. It looks to language before it is deciphered, as it teeters on the edge of disclosure.”
More info: The Poetry School
JUN2022 / Apollinaire and Other Horses / Book review:
Author, critic and poet Richard Marshall published a review of Apollinaire and Other Horses on 3:16.
Extract: “There is an unnatural density to this equine mass. And a movement that shimmers from metamorphosis to fakery. Previous neat flowing lines now undulate. There is no sense of improvisation here because it seems everything was prepared long before. Reading is a sense of following the plan. There is gravity and grace as well as humour. For a short collection it lasts long. It has inexhaustible acts. It is like an underground chamber of bronze, rigid with a pile of cushions inside and an invisible thread. Every horse risks intoxication through Torset’s visits. The poems set their histories and abandom them to new paradox. The horses are the heroes who are chosen to become human and shake with hilarity from the inside at this.”
Full article: 3-16am.co.uk
MAY2022 / Apollinaire and Other Horses / Book launch:
The poetry chapbook Apollinaire and Other Horses was published by Sam Riviere’s If a Leaf Falls Press.
From the editor: “What if the French symbolist poet was a 4-year-old gelding? (he is, and his favourite treat is carrots). Horses apparition at decisive historic moments, before there was apple pie – sometimes they don't even know they are a horse, even when they are depicted that way in drawings, mid-flight. A surrealist survey of equine influence on the folkloric imagination.”
The book spans 20 pages, is printed in a limited edition of 100, is distributed through a subscription service, and for sale here. It is archived at the National Poetry Library, University at Buffalo Library, University of Chicago Library, Edinburgh College of Art, and the Scottish Poetry Library, and stocked by Good Press (Glasgow), Typewronger Books (Edinburgh), the London Review Bookshop, and Books Peckham.
MAR2022 / Kristiania University College / Teaching:
Guest lecturing at Kristiania University 28 Feb.-04. Mar, Oslo - Norway.
Workshop on poetry and art with the students from BA Writing, alongside course leader Bård Torgersen.
FEB2022 / Kulturhuset Stockholm: Alfabet i sönderfall / Exhibiton:
The piece echo ergo echo was part of the exhibition Alfabet i sönderfall at Kulturbiblioteket at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, 7.2.–1.3. Previously displayed as Alphabet in Decay. Curated by Joachim Norling, at Timglaset Editions.
FEB2022 / Penteract Press: The Book of Penteract / Anthology:
“A 200 page, full-colour, hardback anthology featuring 45 of the most exciting poets currently working in the fields of constrained, formal, and visual poetry. This is a casebound edition, with a striking red ribbon bookmark and black and red head and tail-bands.“ Full Colour, Hardback, 210 x 148mm.
Featuring contributions from: Merlina Acevedo, Derek Beaulieu, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Luke Bradford,, Susie Campbell, Lisa Cooper, Franco Cortese, Clara Daneri, Laura Davis, Anthony Etherin, Greg Hill, Tom Jenks, Robert Frede Kenter, Laura Kerr, Vilde B. Torset, and others.
More info: penteractpress.com
ETC2021 / Publications:
The poems a shark gives birth to sheep and wormhole check mate were published in issue #1 and #3 of The Minute Review
The piece a spot as a smudge was published in the asemic issue of Buzdokuz Magazine
The poem when you dream you are being chased by an elephant was published in Porridge Magazine, Issue 5
DEC2021 / Trickhouse Press: 2022 Annual / Anthology:
“The inaugural Trickhouse Press annual is a wide-ranging and forward-thinking compendium of work, showcasing the most exciting visual poetry in the UK and beyond.” 260-page, A4, full-colour. Ltd. ed (100).
Edited by Dan Power.
More info: trickhousepress.com
NOV2021 / Timglaset Editions: Alphabet in Decay / Exhibition:
The exhibition Alphabet in Decay, curated by Timglaset Editions, takes place 5.-26. November at etkbooks gallery in Bern, Switzerland. International exhibition of visual poetry beyond language, featuring participants from 11 countries.
Works by Derek Beaulieu, Rosaire Appel, Geof Huth, Richard Biddle, Imogen Reid, Danni Storm, Vilde B. Torset, Fernando Aguiar, and others.
More info: etkbooks.com
SEP2021 / Poem Atlas: TEXT-ISLES / Exhibition catalogue:
“TEXT-ISLES is an exhibition catalogue documenting the physical exhibition of visual poetry at the Art Park Gallery in Rhodes from 17.–24. September 2021. It features a range of experimental poets, examines materiality through the lens of text and textiles. The work produced as part of its accompanying show are harnessed to retell, reimagine, and reorient our relationship to the environment and materials that stratify us.”
Foreword by Astra Papachristodoulou. Essay by Susie Campbell.
More info: poematlas.com
SEP2021 / Poem Atlas: TEXT-ISLES / Exhibition:
The Poem Atlas exhibition TEXT-ISLES takes place 17.-24. September at Art Park Gallery in Archipoli, Rhodes.
“Poem Atlas presents its first international exhibition TEXT-ISLES, an exhibition of visual poetry featuring a range of innovative poets that examines materiality through the lens of text and textiles. Although wide-ranging in approach, the work produced as part of this show could be broadly characterised as a collection of material or sculptural poems, in which materiality, texture and movement are harnessed to retell, reimagine, and reorient our relationship to the environment and materials that stratify us.“
Works by Susie Campbell, Jade Cuttle, Paul Hawkins, Briony Hughes, James Knight, Stephen Mooney, Martina O’Shea, Vilde B. Torset, Maria Wigley, and others.
More info: poematlas.com
AUG2021 / Tegnerforbundet / Drawings for sale:
Two drawings for sale at the Tegnerforbundet Shop: Into The Egg Of Time and Original Tongue Autopsy.
From the website: "[…] Hva er språkets sanne natur, og hvordan oppfører det seg når alfabetet uteblir? Hvordan ser bevisstheten ut før den fanges av tegnene? Verkene etterstreber en dialog med disse spørsmålene […]."
More info: shop.tegnerforbundet.no
JUL2021 / WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DREAMS : A to Z / Book launch:
The poetry chapbook WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DREAMS : A to Z was published by Norwegian publisher AFV Press, and launched in Oslo on the 23rd of July alongside books by Runa Borch Skolseg and Ole-Petter Arneberg. A conceptual encyclopedia of dreams and meanings, the book spans 36 pages, is printed in a limited edition of 72, and distributed through a subscription service.
What constitutes a life-saving act? Are humans the only critical animal? Some poetry has a way of reconfiguring questions that feel perennial, and What It Means When You Dreams is one of those recalibrating encounters. Caustic, wistful, unnerving, gorgeous – are these records of dreams or a partiture for dissecting the unconscious? Bjerke Torset’s poems are not “arbitrary” as most dreams – and words – are, but read as carefully planted pipe bombsof sound and image. They find craft in the spontaneous, in the mysterious and the inexplicable. How do you feel in the morning? Yes, rested – and in awe of Bjerke Torset’s sharp, sensual language, that turns seemingly chance events into code.
- Nadia de Vries
An encyclopedia of dreams just about 30 pages long is incomplete.
The title is misleading, since each entry replaces information with poetry,
and the book is funny in the same way Borges's Chinese encyclopedia forces us to laugh:
there is a violence here. (I don’t know if this can be used. Does it sound ok?
I’d like to say something about the feeling I got reading; the joy.)
- Hans Petter Blad
JUL2021 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Studio+ Course Autumn 2021 / Teaching:
Poetry Through Theatre: Experiments from the Stage Studio+ Course
“Building on the fact that the poetic and the dramatic arts have gone hand in hand since the dawn of both, this course asks what possibilities lie at the intersection of the two. How does language live on the stage? How is the stage set in the poem? What happens to a word which is not spoken, but is written to be spoken? What are the consequences of something that is both real, not real, and real beyond the real?”
More info: The Poetry School
JUL2021 / Porsgrunn Kunstforening: Prosessen ville ingen ende se / Exhibiton:
The exhibition “prosessen ville ingen ende se” takes place 17.-25. July, Prosjektrommet, Porsgrunn - Norway.
“Porsgrunn kunstforening har gitt fire kunstnere hver sin vegg i rommet, temaet er tekstbasert kunst. Utstillingen er prosessbasert, kunstnerne jobber direkte i rommet med utstillingen uken før utstillingen åpner.”
Works by Muga Fuseki, Kristian Grønevet, Hanne Dahl Geving, and Vilde Bjerke Torset.
More info: Porsgrunn kunstforening
MAR2021 / Kristiania University College / Teaching:
Guest lecturing at Kristiania University 1.-05. Mar, Oslo - Norway.
Workshop on poetry and art with the students from BA Writing, alongside course leader Bård Torgersen.
MAR2021 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Course Anthology / Curator:
“What came first, the word or the poem? And which is which? Coming together from locations all over the world, from Europe, North America, and Asia, over a dozen poets plunged head-first after answers into the murky waters of experimental semiotics. Drawing on sources from runes to javascript, samurai calligraphers to occult mediums, the work that emerged channels a poetry which looks to language as the most fundamental of materials. What follows is a morsel of this, extracted from the coursework generated during Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken and Unbroken Code. These twelve pieces created during the course give a glimpse into a collective, open-ended experiment seeking out what language and poetry can be.”
More info: The Poetry School
JAN2021 / MONTEZ RADIO: VOICE & CHORUS / Collaboration:
”An exquisite corpse of an "I” played out in a multiplicity of voices, "Verse & Chorus" is an experimental act of constellation and collaborative reworking that quilts cuts from two manuscripts into an imagined third object (collaging verses from Nadia de Vries' I FAILED TO SWOON and Dominic Jaeckle's 36 EXPOSURES; both forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021). Scored by found sounds, borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw (of Tex La Homa, the Pop Group and Shirley Collins fame), "Verse & Chorus" carries readings from Nadia de Vries; Cíntia Gil; Diamanda La Berge Dramm; Mark Lanegan; Stanley Schtinter; Becket Flannery; and Vilde Bjerke Torset (in order of appearance) in an exchange of ideas, images and allusions.”
More info: radio.montezpress.com
JAN2021 / THE POETRY SCHOOL - Studio+ Course Spring 2021 / Teaching:
Poetry Beyond Semantics: Broken & Unbroken Code – Studio+ Course
”From the assumption that all poetry is based on crafting thought into symbols and all reading is based on the deciphering of these, this course takes a step back from the content of a poem, exploring the hidden potential of its framework and material. It looks to language before it is deciphered, as it teeters on the edge of disclosure.”
More info: The Poetry School
ETC2020 / Publications:
The poem caught in a loophole was published online on WhyNow
The short story Sånn oss imellom was published in print in Filologen Tidsskrift, #4
The asemic series the scars of interpretation was published online on The Learned Pig
The pieces a spot as a smudge and ICC were part of the online exhibitions, Islet Zone and Curiosities, on Poem Atlas
NOV2020 / THE ARCTIC ART BOOK FAIR: Pareidolia - Dotremont’s Daughter / Book fair:
Pareidolia - Dotremont’s Daughter went to The Arctic Art Book Fair 13.-15. Nov, Tromsø - Norway.
”Free and open to the public, the Arctic Art Book Fair is a multi-day celebration of artists’ and independent presses featuring over 35 local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of presentations, readings and artists’ projects. AABF is the first art book fair that brings together producers from all over the circumpolar north; Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, Northern Scandinavia and Russia. The fair, which will be hosted by a different arctic country in the upcoming years, hopes to provide a sustainable meeting place and exhibition venue for arctic artistic communities and local audiences from the Barents region.”
More info: arcticartbookfair.com
OCT2020 / Pareidolia - Dotremont’s Daughter / Book launch:
The artist book Pareidolia - Dotremont’s Daughter came out with the Swedish publisher Timglaset Ltd. A full-format book of 37 pages, high quality digital print on high grade matte paper, with 31 previously unpublished works.
I’m not very susceptible to pareidolia. I see neither faces nor ships when I look at these pages – so what do I see? I see white space pushing and shoving black marks around on the page. These marks jostle and whip-lash and cavort with each other while the white space forges active, rather than conventional, intervals. Conventional intervals signal writing/reading whereas irregular intervals signal drawing/looking. In “Pareidolia” I am both looking and reading - and admiring the astute handling of linguistic white space.
- Rosaire Appel
Addressing the audience somewhere in between being a viewer and a reader, "PAREIDOLIA" brilliantly pinpoints our need for stability and wholeness in trying to affix the world’s fragments, thus revealing our own mental glitches. From a visual perspective, pareidolia is the glue in which we trust.
- Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim
AUG2020 / ONE IS A CROWD / Short film:
An experimental short film, ONE IS A CROWD, was created for an Instagram showcase selected by AIKU Series in collaboration with Story Island Productions, and based around the theme “CONNECTIONS”, in response to the first UK lockdown. Awarded Best Cinematography by AIKU Series 2020.
ETC2019 / Publications:
The poem perler for deg og meg was published in print in Bøygen Tidsskrift, #3/4
The poem voyage de senteur was published in print in Å Journal, Issue 3, and translated into French by Alicja Miler
The poem residues of folded symbolisations, was published in Alexandria Coe’s artist book, BODY
The poems books should be broken, i'd rather bleed, belting fast while seating, and ibs, were published online on Partisan Hotel
The poems insectual instinct, pealing the apple of my eye, and tells time by water, were published online on Berfrois
The asemic series mendacious morphology (DO NOT READ), was published on Utsanga
NOV2019 / The Yellow Book Exhibition / Exhibition:
Exhibition: 1.11.–27.11., Westminster Reference Library
”Contemporary UK-based poets respond to the short-lived but influential quarterly magazine, The Yellow Book. Come and explore the possibilities of visual and object poetry in an exhibition curated by poet Astra Papachristodoulou.”
Works by Simon Tyrrell, Imogen Reid, Michał Kamil Piotrowski, Nic Stringer, Karen Sandhu, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Luke Thompson, and others.
More info: poematlas.com
OCT2019 / THE NORDIC POETRY FESTIVAL / UK tour:
“A brilliant debut for the Nordic Poetry Festival in October 2019, featuring two dozen of the Nordic regions most innovative and dynamic literary and avant-garde poets, the NPF evidenced the unique and powerful contribution Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Sami peoples are making to 21st century poetry. With five remarkable events, to packed and lively audiences, exploring collaboration and performance over one week, the festival saw events at Rich Mix and Burley Fisher Books in London, alongside a minibus tour to the National Centre for Writing in Norwich and York’s Jorvik Viking Centre.”
Performances:
11.10. Opening of the NPF exhibition at Burley Fisher Books
14.10. The Nordic Norwich Camarade: collaboration with Sam Jordison (and Endre Ruset)
15.10. The Nordic York Camarade: collaboration with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
17.10. Nordic Poetry at Writers´ Centre Kingston
Feature on the NPF by Johanne Elster Johansen (link)
More info: noridcpoetryfestival.com
OCT2019 / THE NORDIC POETRY FESTIVAL / Exhibition & anthology:
Exhibition: 11.10.-18.10., Burley Fisher Books, London
Anthology: Timglaset Ltd., 44 pages, A5 format, black and white digital print with a colour cover, perfect bound.
“The exhibition, entitled ‘I DREAM OF A FOREST. BUT IT’S A PROCESS’ presents the remarkable innovation and depth in contemporary Nordic literature by evidencing a range of visual poetics; from Søndergaard’s world-renowned conceptual public poetry to Musturi’s comic-zine-punk poems, from Torset’s 21st century pansemic and asemic explorations, to Johanns three-dimensional poetry collections and interventions.”
Work by Morten Søndergaard (Denmark), Ragnhildur Jóhanns (Iceland), Tommi Musturi (Finland), and Vilde Bjerke Torset (Norway).
Buy book: timglaset.com
JUL2019 / The Poetry Society: THE POET’s BRUT / Exhibition & performance:
Exhibition: 1.07.-31.08., The Poetry Society, London
Launch event and readings: 8.07. 7pm – 9pm
“Brand new works exhibited by eight of the UK’s most exciting contemporary poets. Poem Brut project has generated over a dozen events since 2017, alongside multiple exhibitions, workshops, conferences, publications and over 1000 submissions to its 3ammagazine series. It advocates for an artistic creative writing, a visual literature, a concrete poetry – poetry that embraces colour, the handwritten, the composed, the abstract, the scribbled, the noted, the illustrated. Poem Brut affirms the possibilities of the page, the pen, and the pencil (and the crayon) for the poet in a computer age, and celebrates these ideas in the live realm alongside the two dimensional. This group show evidences a new generation of poets working in old traditions often forgotten or nudged into the realm of modern art.”
Works by Chris McCabe, Paul Hawkins, Astra Papachristodoulou, Karen Sandhu, Simon Tyrrell, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Imogen Reid and Patrick Cosgrove.
More info: poetrysociety.org.uk
APR2019 / European Poetry Festival / Performances:
“The second European Poetry Festival: as the UK pretended to leave its own continent, nearly 1000 people witnessed 80 of Europe’s most innovative and dynamic literary and avant-garde poets come to London, Norwich, Manchester, and Kildare for 9 events over 11 days, creating over 100 new works of live literature”
Performances:
04.04. Norwegian Poetry at Writer’s Centre Kingston, and launch of swallowing feathers
06.04. The European Camarade: collaboration with Simone Lappert
10.04: Austrian Poetry in collaboration: collaboration with Sophie-Carolin Wagner
13.04: Manchester European Camarade: collaboration with Nell Osborne
More info: europeanpoetryfestival.com
JAN2019 / European Poetry Festival: The Vienna Camarade / Performance:
“The Vienna Camarade: at Einbaumöbel Wien, Austria. The European Poetry Festival presented a remarkable night of new collaborative poetry performances from pairs of poets in the literary and avant-garde traditions.“
Featuring a collaborative performance with Nadie de Vries.
More info: europeanpoetryfestival.com