{"id":6116,"date":"2020-10-30T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2020-11-28T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T12:04:12","slug":"poetry-jamboree-big-zoom-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6116\/poetry-jamboree-big-zoom-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Jamboree Big Zoom Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Poetry Jamboree, a festival of innovative poetries\u00a0<\/span>and arts initiated by John Goodby and Lyndon Davies, has been in hibernation since its last three-day manifestation in 2012 at Hay on Wye. Now, in this viral epoque it is resuming operations in digital guise, with a series of two-monthly zoom sessions, featuring readings, short films and various kinds of performance.<\/h4>\n

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The first event will take place on\u00a0Sunday November 29th<\/strong><\/h4>\n

at 6.30pm – 9.00pm GMT<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Featuring readings, performances and work by<\/h4>\n

Kimberly Campanello<\/h4>\n

Sarah Crewe<\/h4>\n

Angharad Davies<\/h4>\n

Lyndon Davies<\/h4>\n

Stephen Emmerson<\/h4>\n

John Goodby<\/h4>\n

Penny Hallas<\/h4>\n

Jeff Hilson<\/h4>\n

Dorothy Lehane<\/h4>\n

Chris McCabe<\/h4>\n

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To attend, here is the link to the Zoom session:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/81077610997<\/a><\/h4>\n

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The Performers<\/h4>\n

Kimberly Campanello’s<\/strong>\u00a0most recent poetry project is\u00a0MOTHERBABYHOME<\/em><\/a>, a collection of 796 conceptual and visual poems on the St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, was published by zimZalla Avant Objects in April 2019.\u00a0She gave a durational performance of the entirety of\u00a0MOTHERBABYHOME\u00a0<\/em>at The Oonagh Young Gallery in Dublin in 2019 and has performed it internationally for a range of festivals and series, most recently in Munich at\u00a0Klang Farben Text: Visual Poetry for the 21st Century<\/a>, a three-day visual poetry festival inspired by the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s. Her work featured in the Experimental Praxis exhibition at\u00a0HAUS Vienna<\/a>\u00a0in September 2020. Kimberly won a\u00a02019 Markievicz Award<\/a>\u00a0from Ireland’s Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s), a poetry collaboration with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie N\u00ed Churre\u00e1in. In 2018 she joined the School of English and the\u00a0Poetry Centre<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Leeds where she leads the BA English Literature with Creative Writing and supervises PhDs in innovative poetry.<\/p>\n

Sarah Crewe<\/strong>\u00a0is a working class feminist poet from the Port of Liverpool. Her second poetry collection,\u00a0garn [eliza doolittle],<\/em>\u00a0is forthcoming from Aquifer Books. She also produces\u00a0mazie<\/em>, a DIY zine of music reviews and poetry.\u00a0She has a MA in Poetry as Practice from the University of Kent,with a thesis on\u00a0working class women’s psychogeography in experimental poetry: the work of Geraldine Monk and Maggie O’Sullivan.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Angharad Davies<\/strong>\u00a0is a Welsh violinist working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance.\u00a0Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her\u00a0instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.\u00a0Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Apartment House, Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth, Juliet Stephenson and J.G.Thirlwell.\u00a0Most of her records are released on Another Timbre but she also has releases on Absinth Records, Confrontrecords, Emanem, Potlatch and winds measure recordings.\u00a0In 2019 she was awarded an OTO Project’s UK Artist Residency Fund supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and was commissioned to write her first orchestral piece by LCMF which was premiered at Ambica, London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stephen Emmerson<\/strong> is the author of A Piece, Poetry Wholes, and Family Portraits, all of which are published by\u00a0If P Then Q.\u00a0<\/span>Other works include: Invisible Poems\u00a0ZimZalla<\/span>, WHO?\u00a0The Literary Pocket Book<\/span>, and Telegraphic Transcriptions\u00a0Stranger Press \/ Dept Press.\u00a0<\/span>He also makes poetry objects such as Pharmacopoetics, Remains, Breath, Rilke Translations, Homeopoetry, and History of the English Working Class. More information can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/stephenemmerson.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

John Goodby<\/strong>\u00a0is a poet, critic, translator and academic based at Sheffield Hallam University. He edited the\u00a0Collected Poems<\/em>\u00a0of Dylan Thomas (2014) and the\u00a0Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas<\/em>\u00a0(2020) and runs the Boiled String imprint of innovative Welsh poetry. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including\u00a0Molly Bloom<\/em>,\u00a0The London Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry Review<\/em>,\u00a0Angel Exhaust<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Stride<\/em>, and his collections include\u00a0uncaged sea<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Illennium<\/em>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0The No Breath<\/em>\u00a0(2017) and\u00a0The Ars<\/em>\u00a0(2020). With Lyndon Davies he ran the Hay Jamboree poetry festivals 2009-12 and co-edited\u00a0The Edge of Necessary: Innovative Welsh Poetry 1966-2018<\/em>\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n

Penny Hallas<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist living in Wales. Her practice includes drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and video, balancing studio-based work with more collaborative approaches. Events and projects within the last year include\u00a0Connectives<\/a>,\u00a0From the Dark<\/a>,\u00a0Casenotes<\/a>,\u00a0Shelter in Place<\/a>,\u00a0Beep 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff Hilson<\/strong> has written four books of poetry:\u00a0stretchers<\/em>\u00a0(Reality Street, 2006),\u00a0Bird bird<\/em>\u00a0(Landfill, 2009),\u00a0In The Assarts<\/em>\u00a0(Veer, 2010) and\u00a0Latanoprost Variations\u00a0<\/em>(Boiler House Press, 2017). A fifth book,\u00a0Organ Music<\/em>, is out later this month from Crater Press. He also edited\u00a0The Reality Street Book of Sonnets<\/em>\u00a0(Reality Street, 2008) and when not in lockdown runs Xing the Line poetry reading series in London. He is a Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Lehane<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of four poetry publications:\u00a0Bettbehandlung<\/em>, (Muscaliet Press,\u00a02018)<\/a>,\u00a0Umwelt<\/em>\u00a0(Leafe Press,\u00a02016)<\/a>,\u00a0Ephemeris<\/em>\u00a0(Nine Arches Press,\u00a02014)<\/a>, and\u00a0Places\u00a0of Articulation<\/em>\u00a0(dancing girl press\u00a02014).<\/a>\u00a0She has read her work to audiences at Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne, Ivy Writers, Paris, the Science Museum, the Wellcome Trust, the Barbican, the Roundhouse, BBC Radio Kent, and the Union Chapel, and has contributed on\u00a0improvised collaborations, notably with synthesizer, Matthew Bourne. Recent poetry and reviews appear in Westerly Magazine, Glasfryn Project and Modern Philology. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent and is currently writing a memoir on the\u00a0lived autoimmune experience, titled:\u00a0Reactive: a memoir of an unknowable body<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Chris McCabe\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0work\u00a0crosses\u00a0artforms\u00a0and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual\u00a0art. He is the author of 12 books which have\u00a0been shortlisted for awards such as the Ted Hughes Award and the Republic of Consciousness\u00a0Prize. His most recent books are\u00a0The Triumph of Cancer\u00a0<\/em>(Penned in the Margins, 2018), his novel\u00a0Mud<\/em>\u00a0(Henningham Family Press, 2019)\u00a0and\u00a0Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages<\/em>\u00a0(Chambers, 2019).<\/p>\n

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Lyndon Davies<\/strong>\u00a0lives in the Black Mountains, in Powys, Wales. He\u00a0has published six collections of poetry, most recently\u00a0Bridge 116<\/em>,\u00a0Canalchemy:<\/em>\u00a0The Materials<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0Reset<\/em>, and a selection of essays (Resemblance,<\/em>\u00a0Aquifer 2019). He runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on aspects of literature and art, edits an online magazine called\u00a0Junction Box<\/a>\u00a0and a series of interdisciplinary collaborative improvisational events called Ghost Jams. With poet John Goodby he ran the original Poetry Jamboree Festivals from 2009 – 2012 at Hay on Wye.<\/p>\n