La Langoustine est morte
Saturday 5th April 2008
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street
London
WC2H 9BX
7.30pm -10.00pm
£5/4 conc.
With Chris McCabe, Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, Tom Chivers & Georgina Banfield.
Hosted by Anthony Joseph.
The acclaimed Langoustine est morte reading series continues this April with another night of eclectic literature from 5 innovative poets. This month’s readers are Chris McCabe, author of The Hutton Enquiry (Salt), poet and academic Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, poet/poetry activist Tom Chivers and the emerging voice of Georgina Banfield. Please see the reader bios below.
La Langoustine est Morte was established in July 2006 by poets Anthony Joseph & Sascha Akhtar as a series of evenings celebrating experimentation and innovation in poetics and fiction. For further info and to possibly be part of La Langoustine contact:
lalangoustine@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/langoustine
READER BIOS
Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review; Shearsman, Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, in 2005. This includes a sequence of poems that chronicle the circumstances surrounding the death of government science adviser Dr David Kelly in 2003 and Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq. He has read his work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry and in the Crossing the Line Series at the Poetry Cafe. He also discussed and read some of his poetry on BBC World Service on Armistice Day 2005 and featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. In 2008 a pamphlet called The Borrowed Notebook will be published by Landfill and a book called Zeppelins by Salt. He currently works as the Joint Librarian of the Poetry Library, London.
Siddhartha Bose grew up in Bombay and Calcutta, followed by a seven year itch in the USA. He has trained as an actor, made short films, and is presently completing his first collection. His poetry has been published in The Wolf (2007, UK) and is forthcoming in Fulcrum (2008, USA) and Alhamra Literary Review (2008, Pakistan). He lives in London, where he has been a featured reader/performer at spoken word events like New Blood and The Shuffle. He also teaches poetry part-time, while undertaking
doctoral research in literature at the University of London.
Tom Chivers is a writer, editor and promoter of poetry. Born in 1983 and raised in South London, he now lives in the East End where he runs live literature agency and events producer Penned in the Margins. Tom has been writing and performing for eight years. His poems have appeared in various magazines including Isis, X Magazine, The Libertine, Nthposition, Smoke, Stride, Fire and Dreams That Money Can Buy, and in the anthologies Babylon Burning: 9/11 Nine Years On and Automatic Lighthouse. His poems have also been translated into Serbian. Tom is Associate Editor of literary journal Tears in the Fence and has presented a weekly poetry show on Resonance FM. His first collection, provisionally titled London Pride, Mother’s Ruin, is forthcoming in 2008.
Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He was awarded the Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he also teaches poetry. He co-edits an arts council funded anthology of emerging poets called ’Stop Sharpening Your Knives’. He lives in Hackney.
Georgina Banfield is a poetry enthusiast from South London. Apart from reading in London venues, she has featured in poetry nights and festivals in Bristol, Scotland and Ireland. Her poetry has been published in zines and journals. She writes about the mundane, the city environment and about life, love and circumstance as well as aspects of her African/ Indian/Caribbean heritage that can at times juxtapose her traditional British-Catholic upbringing...she is a developing writer in the process of putting her own first collection together.