Thursday 14 May 2015, 8pm
Great line-up featuring some of the best of Brighton's vibrant underground poetry scene, assembled by Daniel Spicer following his article in last month's issue of the WIRE.
“For me, what distinguishes Brighton poetry from poetry that happens elsewhere is that, in Brighton, people are fully present in their performances. They ransack their identities. They rummage around in their histories. The produce themselves and reproduce themselves. That risks sounding like a kind of egotism, like a spectacle of the self, and I think that poets here encounter that risk, are cognisant of it and fuck with it in their work. For me, this is the beautiful contradiction of the spirit of austerity, which we see in Brighton.” - Keston Sutherland (quoted in the WIRE)
- Map 71
- Binnsclagg
- In Threads
- Rebecca E Davies & Holly Jarvis
- Keston Sutherland & THF Drenching
- Alan Hay
- Verity Spott & Dolly Dollycore
“A ritual of intimate intensity, enacting written score instructions on cello and bowed psaltery, gong and cymbals.” – Daniel Spicer (The WIRE)
Keston Sutherland is the author of The Odes To TL61P (Enitharmon, 2013) and many other books of poetry.
THF Drenching is a Manchester-based improviser and long-standing collaborator with Keston Sutherland. As a dictaphone-player, he was one fifth of Derek Bailey's final band Limescale, and has played with many of the UK's best improvisors. He was also half of the bricks and dictaphone duo Pleasure-Drenching Improvers. As a poet (writing under his slave name, Stuart Calton) he's published four books. Three came out on Barque Press and one is self-published. His fifth and sixth are awaiting publication.
Alan Hay is a Brighton based poet. He has read at X-ing The Line, Horseplay, Hi Zero and other nights. His poems have appeared inSummer Stock, Blart, Freaklung, Angel Exhaust and elsewhere. He is online at Archive Of The Now and All My Friends At Once.
Verity Spott is a poet and musician. Verity runs Iodine Press and Horseplay. Verity’s books include Gideon, Balconette and Effort To No.
Dolly Dollycore plays with toy piano, rattles, bells, analogue synths, sound boxes, mic sounds and feedback and other toys. She is one of Four Manatees and sometimes plays with The A Band.
Map 71 are Lisa Jayne (vocals) and Andy Pyne (drums and electronics), purveyors of punk primitive power poetry.
Binnsclagg are the duo of Karl MV Waugh and Verity Spott. Together they make “deliberately, provocatively unpleasant audio events” (Daniel Spicer, WIRE).
