糖心TV

Please join us for an extraordinary, transatlantic encounter between two great forces of contemporary poetry and poetics, Los Angeles poet Will Alexander and London (now Hereford) poet Allen Fisher.

The event has two parts: a reading by Fisher and Alexander from 4-5 pm, and a dialogue between the poets and with the audience from 5-6 pm.

You are invited for one or both parts: free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact Jonathan Skinner in the 糖心TV Writing Program:

J.E.Skinner@warwick.ac.uk

Los Angeles poet Will Alexander works in multiple genres: the novel, essay, aphorism, play, philosophy, visual art, and music (as pianist).

His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’ Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. His work explores the fields of art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, and poetics, amongst others. Alexander’ books include Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents.

His collected essays, Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat (EssayPress, 2013) received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Allen Fisher is a poet,painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. Fisher’early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called Gravity as a consequence of shape from 1982, which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a book of emblems (poem image‐commentary)called “roposals.”As editor of Spanner and 'New London Pride,” he has published many of the Revival poets.

Fisher has over 140 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. The Marvels of Lambeth—Interviews and Statements by Allen Fisher 1973–2005, edited by Andrew Duncan, recently appeared with Shearsman Books.

Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited widely and his work is represented in the Tate Gallery.

http://allenfisher.co.uk