Centre for Poetry and Poetics: A Reading with Andrea Brady and Richard Parker

Centre for Poetry and Poetics: A Reading with Andrea Brady and Richard Parker
Centre for Poetry and Poetics: A Reading with Andrea Brady and Richard Parker

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Andrea Brady is a poet and critic whose eight books of poetry include The Strong Room (Crater, 2016), Dompteuse (Book Thug, 2014), Cut from the Rushes (Reality Street, 2013), Mutability: Scripts for Infancy (Seagull, 2012), and Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (Krupskaya, 2010). The Blue Split Compartments, a suite of poems for the drone age, was published by Wesleyan in August; Desiring Machines came out from Boiler House in November. She is a Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary University of London, where she founded the Centre for Poetry and the Archive of the Now.

Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.Richard Parker is a poet, academic, editor and printer. His poetry publications include Space Odes (Boiler House, 2021), from The Mountain of California… (Openned 2010), The Traveller and the Defence of Heaven (Veer, 2012) and R.T.A. Parker’s 99 Sonnets About Evil (Canary Woof, 2015). He is also the editor and printer of the award-winning Crater Press pamphlet and book series, publishing mostly letterpress pamphlets of some of the best new British poetry.

There will be a short Q&A post reading fascilitated by A. Lehoczky

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