UK Tour in Progress

by Pierre Joris · May 13, 2013

photo by Joseph Mastantuono

We’re in London to start a UK reading tour tomorrow at Birbeck College. Went to see the excellent prehistoric show at the British Museum this morning — more on that in a later post. I posted the details on tomorrow’s reading a few days back, but here, the complete program for the next 2 weeks. Should you be anywhere near one of the venues, do come in!

UK TRIP MAY 2013

BANGOR-WALES
Friday, May 17th, 6:30PM
Poetry reading
Pierre Joris, Allen Fisher, Jean Portante, Nicole Peyrafitte
Terrasse Room 3, Main Arts, Bangor University.

BANGOR UNIVERSITY
Saturday, May 18th.

Nomadic and Processual Poetics: A Symposium
Terrace Room 3, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Programme
This symposium will consider the scope and applicability of the ideas of Pierre Joris and Allen Fisher and related poetics, including issues of translation and place-specific writing, in the light of the archipelagic World-and-UK context of the many ‘devolved voices’ of contemporary poetry. It is presented by Contempo, the Centre for Contemporary Poetry, which is run jointly by Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities.

Organisers: Dr Zoë Skoulding (z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk) and Professor Peter Barry (ptb@aber.ac.uk)

To find out more about Contempo go to: http://www.aber.ac.uk/contempo/

EDINBURGH-SCOTLAND
Tuesday May 21 7:00PM
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
DOMOPOETICS: Personal & Shared Artistic Practices —A Multimedia Performance by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
InsPace / 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh

GLASGOW-SCOTLAND
Wednesday May 22 7:30PM
Presentation of The University of California Book of North African Literature— V.4 of Poems for the Millennium; edited by Pierre Joris & Habib Tengour.
With Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour, Madeleine Campbell, Nicole Peyrafitte presented by Jeffrey Robinson
Centre for Contemporary Arts —350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Poster

Thursday May 23 8PM
Assembling Identities 2013
Poetry Reading
Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, Peter Manson and Alec Finlay
The Gilchrist Postgraduate Club, University Avenue, Glasgow
Free Entry, Open to all

Friday May 24 9:30 a.m.
Assembling Identities 2013
Pierre Joris, Keynote address. ptba.

Sunday May 26 1:30-5PM
Reading at Little Sparta
‘Evening Will Come. They Will Sew The Blue Sail.’ A Little Spartan Poetry Reading.Stonypath, Dunsyre, Carnwath, Lanarkshire
Readings by: Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, Lila Matsumoto… more TBA
—Coaches will leave Edinburgh and Glasgow for Stonypath approx. 1.30pm, giving guests a couple of hours to tour the garden, with readings beginning at 5pm. Cost (TBC) for guests will include transport, entry to Little Sparta and the reading, and guidebook.

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Poo says:

May 14, 2013 at 4:14 pm

Lovely photo! Enjoy the trip.

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Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.