Centre for Poetry and Poetics (Spring, 2022-Series’ Opening event, Arts Tower, LT01 plus online. A Reading with Ansgar Allen, Andrea Brady and Richard ParkerThie event is in person with an online option (link tbc) / pre-reg is required if online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/251075502587
Ansgar Allen is the author of several books, including a short history of Cynicism, and the novellas, Wretch and The Sick List, and most recently The Reading Room.
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). His work, which includes poetry about sport, travel writing and science fiction, addresses questions of place and the environment through investigations of poetic form and process. He has written various critical prose pieces on twentieth-century poetry, with a particular emphasis on American modernism and the New American Poetry. He has edited three volumes of essays on Ezra Pound and is currently working on heterodox temporalities in the American West. 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.