The Cambridge Reading Series, launched last February, has been consistently excellent. The format is: 2 poets; English Faculty drama studio; digressive, odd, engaged introductions; 7.30 on Fridays. Best of all for anyone who’s missed out on Rodefer, Lisette, Manson, Toal, Mobarak, Joyce, Olsen, Kruk, Rider, Lindsay, Jarvis, Bonney, Crangle, Thornton, Warriner, James, Leonard, and Sutherland, the texts passed around at the readings are all now online, here, via the links on the right.
Update, right on time:
The Cambridge Reading Series is pleased to present Nat Raha and Drew Milne this Friday, 28 January 2011 at 7:30PM inside the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio at the Faculty of English.
As ever: Free admission; elegant pamphlet; wine served; growing book table; all welcome!
NAT RAHA lives in London. Her poetry includes Octet (Veer Books 2010), Notes on Tauheed (The Arthur Shilling Press 2009) and Sporangiophores (yt communication 2009), and has appeared in Klatch, Cleaves, Department, Blart and Freak Lung. She helps out with ninerrors press and is studying at the University of Sussex.
DREW MILNE’s books of poetry include Sheet Mettle (1994), Bench Marks (1998), The Damage: new and selected poems (2001), Mars Disarmed (2002) and Go Figure (2003). He edits the occasional journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing and the occasional imprint Parataxis Editions. A new issue of Parataxis and new Parataxis Editions books are set to appear in 2011. He edited Marxist Literary Theory: an anthology (1996) with Terry Eagleton, and the anthology Modern Critical Thought (2003). He has published numerous essays on poetics, drama, performance and critical theory, and has books forthcoming on Marxism, performance and poetics. Extracts from a novel in progress entitled The Prada Meinhof Gang have appeared in various journals. As well as writing a number of performance texts, his work in progress also includes the development of performance personae for a rockumentary entitled Glamfuzz: the wilderness years.
