{"id":6375,"date":"2021-02-26T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:59:11","slug":"poetry-jamboree-big-zoom-jam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6375\/poetry-jamboree-big-zoom-jam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Jamboree Big Zoom Jam 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second Poetry Jamboree\u00a0will take place on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0March 21st<\/strong><\/h4>\n

at 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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

Kelvin Corcoran<\/h4>\n

Tom Jenks<\/h4>\n

Fran Lock<\/h4>\n

Lila Matsumoto<\/h4>\n

Simon Smith<\/h4>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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

https:\/\/shu.zoom.us\/j\/9177866721<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

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The Performers<\/h4>\n

Kelvin Corcoran<\/strong> lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including\u00a0New and Selected Poems<\/em>,\u00a0For the Greek Spring<\/em>\u00a0from Shearsman, and most recently\u00a0Facing West<\/em>, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed sponsored\u00a0Not Much To Say Really<\/em>, 2017, Article 50, 2018,\u00a0Below This Level,<\/em>\u00a02019,\u00a0The Republic of Song<\/em>, Free Verse Editions\/Parlor Press, 2020, and\u00a0Orpheus Asymmetric<\/em>, 2020. The sequence ‘Helen Mania’ was a Poetry Book Society choice, and the poem ‘At the Hospital Doors’ was highly commended by the Forward Prize jury 2017. His work is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown,\u00a0The Poetry Occurs As Song<\/em>, 2013. He edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in\u00a0Not The Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood<\/em>, 2008. In addition, his poetry has been commissioned to accompany travelling Arts Council exhibitions of British modernist art. He has collaborated with various musicians and composers including Tria Kalistos and the Jack Hues Quartet, producing the CD A Thesis on the Ballad. His work has been anthologised in the UK and the USA and translated into Greek and Spanish. He is the guest editor of the Shearsman poetry magazine.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/oct\/18\/greek-spring-kelvin-corcoran-review<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/fortnightlyreview.co.uk\/2013\/08\/summer-2013-comment\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Jenks<\/strong>‘ latest book is\u00a0A Long and Hard Night Troubled by Visions\u00a0<\/em>(if p then q) 2018 and his next will be\u00a0Pack My Box with Five-Dozen Liquor Jugs<\/em>, a pangrammatic novel with Catherine Vidler, due from Penteract Press in November. His work has recently appeared in Perverse, Litter, The\u00a0Poetry Review and\u00a0The Penguin Book of Oulipo<\/em>, edited by Philip Terry. He edits zimZalla, a small press specialising in literary objects.\u00a0http:\/\/zshboo.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Fran Lock<\/strong> is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author numerous chapbooks and seven poetry collections, most recently\u00a0Contains Mild Peril<\/a>\u00a0(Out-Spoken Press, 2019) and Ruses and Fuses (Culture Matters, 2019), the last in a trilogy of works with collage artist Steev Burgess. Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, ‘Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma’. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters, where she is now reading submissions for a new anthology themed around\u00a0poverty and resistance<\/a>. She edits the Soulfood column at Communist Review. Her eighth collection, Hyena! is due from Poetry Bus Press this summer.<\/p>\n

As author:\u00a0Flatrock\u00a0<\/em>(Little Episodes, 2011)\u00a0The Mystic and the Pig Thief\u00a0<\/em>(Salt, 2014)\u00a0Laudanum Chapbook Anthology: Volume Two\u00a0<\/em>(Laudanum, 2017)\u00a0Muses and Bruises\u00a0<\/em>(Culture Matters, 2017)\u00a0Dogtooth\u00a0<\/em>(Out\u00a0Spoken Press, 2017)\u00a0Ruses and Fuses\u00a0<\/em>(Culture Matters, 2018)\u00a0Triptych\u00a0<\/em>(Poetry Bus Press, 2019)\u00a0Raptures and Captures\u00a0<\/em>(Culture Matters, 2019)\u00a0Contains Mild Peril\u00a0<\/em>(Out Spoken\u00a0Press, 2019)<\/p>\n

As Editor:\u00a0Witches, Warriors, Workers: An anthology of contemporary working women’s poetry\u00a0<\/em>(Culture Matters, 2020)<\/p>\n

Lila Matsumoto<\/strong>‘s publications include\u00a0Urn & Drum\u00a0<\/em>(Shearsman, 2018) and a recent piece for Futch Press:\u00a0https:\/\/www.futchpress.info\/post\/imitation-of-life<\/a>. Her second collection of poetry is forthcoming from Prototype this year. She lives and teaches in Nottingham.\u00a0https:\/\/lilamatsumoto.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Simon Smith<\/strong> is a poet and translator who lives in London. His last three books appeared in 2018:\u00a0The Books of Catullus<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet),\u00a0DAY IN, DAY OUT<\/em>(Parlor Press) and\u00a0some Municipal Love Poems<\/em>\u00a0(Muscaliet). Since March 2020 he has been working on a new book,\u00a0Midnight Arks<\/em>. Selections from this work appeared as part of “The Quarantine Notebooks” project:\u00a0https:\/\/www.muscaliet.co.uk\/the-quarantine-notebooks\/<\/a>\u00a0and at\u00a0The Fortnightly Review<\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/fortnightlyreview.co.uk\/2021\/02\/smith-echo-star\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second Poetry Jamboree\u00a0will take place on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0March 21st at 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT   Featuring readings and performances by Kelvin Corcoran Tom Jenks Fran Lock Lila Matsumoto Simon Smith   To attend, here is the link to the Zoom session: https:\/\/shu.zoom.us\/j\/9177866721   The Performers Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Poetry-Jam-2-flyer-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}