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Glasfryn Seminars

Frances Presley
on
Avant-garde Women’s Poetry and Collaboration

Saturday 20 June 2009
10.30 am for 11.00 am start
Glasfryn, Llangattock, Powys, NP8 1PH

On Saturday 20 June, Poet, Performer and Literary Theorist Frances Presley conducts the fifth Glasfryn Seminar. She will explore some of the work of contemporary avant-garde women poets, especially in the UK and will discuss the UK women poets within the avant-garde. Since so much of avant-garde poetry has been dominated by American cultural imperialism, British women poets have been even further marginalised. She will also focus specifically on the role of collaborative poetics for innovative women poets, both here and in North America. Examples of collaboration and its techniques will be shared.

Frances Presley is a poet, performer, essayist and reviewer. She collaborated with the artist Irma Irsara, in a multi media performance about clothing and the fashion trade in London, Automatic Cross Stitch, (Other Press 2000); and with the poet Elizabeth James in an email text and performance, Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999). Recent books are Paravane: New and Selected Poems, 1996 - 2003 (Salt, 2004); and Myne: New and selected poems and prose, 1976 - 2005 (Shearsman Books, 2006). Myne includes poems from Stone Settings, an approach to the neolithic stone sites on Exmoor, which is also a multi-media collaboration and performance with the poet and artist Tilla Brading. Her new book, Lines of Sight, will be published by Shearsman in 2009. She has written various essays and reviews - some of her writing on feminist collaborative poetics can be found in the journal How2 and in Additional Apparitions (Kennedy and Tuma, Cherry on the Top, 2002).

The event comprises two sessions, from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm, then from 2.00 pm onwards, followed by an open-ended discussion.

Cost: £10.00 (Numbers limited so please book early)

For more information contact:
Lyndon Davies, Glasfryn, Llangattock, Powys, NP8 1PH
goodbard@yahoo.co.uk / 01873 810456

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