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New British Poets

Presented by University of Notre Dame Creative Writing Program at University of Notre Dame, McKenna Hall

April 4, 2007

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The 4 British Poets continues with a a panel discussing contemporary poetry and politics in Britain and the USA with Andrea Brady, Keston Sutherland, Robin Purves, Sam Ladkin and other guests. To coincide with a special issue of Chicago Review a group of younger British poets is touring the US, and will visit Notre Dame in early April: Andrea Brady, Peter Manson and Keston Sutherland. They will be accompanied by the British editors of the special issue, Sam Ladkin and Robin Purves. Alongside an anthology of new writing, the Chicago Review volume will include a substantial essay by John Wilkinson (Notre Dame) on the work of Andrea Brady as well as essays by Simon Jarvis (Johns Hopkins) and Keith Tuma (Miami, Ohio) among others. The Notre Dame program will also feature the first showing of a film of the Pearl River Poetry Conference held in Guangzhou, South China in 2005. This event brought together Chinese and British avant-garde poets, including Keston Sutherland. The film centers on contributions from the distinguished Chinese poet Che Qiantzi and the British poet JH Prynne. This was a rare occasion when Prynne consented to be recorded and filmed. These events have been sponsored by University of Notre Dame Boehnen Fund, the Center for Creative Computing, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program, the Department of Film, Theater and Television and East Asian Languages and Literature. Further information will be circulated soon, but the outline timetable is provided here for those who might wish to include events in class schedules. Chris Goode is a prominent experimental theater director, and will work with FTT. As a guide, areas of expertise are as follows, with all four poets available for Creative Writing input: Andrea Brady is a lecturer in English at Brunel University, London. Born in Philadelphia, a graduate of Columbia University and a Cambridge University PhD, she is one of the most remarkable poets of her generation and has published two important collections, Vacation of a Lifetime (2001) and Embrace (2005). An academic specialist in seventeenth-century English literature and author of a book of funerary elegy, she also writes about and reviews contemporary poetry. She is joint editor of the small but leading-edge poetry publisher, Barque Press (www.barquepress.com). Peter Manson was Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cambridge from 2005-6. His book-length work of non-narrative prose, Adjunct: An Undigest was published by Edinburgh Review in 2005, with excepts issued on CD by Stem Recordings and electronic adaptations on www.ubu.web. It was a selection in the internationally-published 2006 volume 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. He has subsequently published a collection of poetry, For the Good of Liars. Keston Sutherland is a lecturer in English at Sussex University, and the most influential poet of his generation in the UK. He is co-editor of Barque Press, editor of the pugnacious poetics journal QUID, and his work has been translated into German, French and Chinese. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he is the chief intellectual force behind a new politically-committed poetics engaging younger poets in New York as much as in London. He has published many books and chapbooks. Accompanying the four poets will be Robin Purves, Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire and a scholar and theoretician of this neo-modernist poetry, and Sam Ladkin, a graduate student at Cambridge University who specialises in US postmodernist poetry and is organising the tour. Events Timetable Main events at McKenna Hall Tuesday 3rd April 2:00-4:30 p.m.: Premiere of Pearl River Poetry Conference movie - intro by Jonathan Noble (EALL) & John Wilkinson (English), followed by comments from Keston Sutherland and questions/discussion. Wednesday 4th April Morning - visits to classes etc. (TBA) 2:00-4:30 p.m.: Contemporary Poetry and Politics in Britain and the US: Andrea Brady, Keston Sutherland, Robin Purves, Sam Ladkin, and others tba 6:00-8:00 p.m. Reading by Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland Location: 210-214 McKenna Hall.