Poetry Reading: Runnymede Festival

FRIDAY, 10 March
 
Poetry Reading
 
  Drew Milne, Jeff Hilson, Redell Olsen

Drew Milne was educated in Edinburgh and Cambridge. He has previously taught at the universities of Edinburgh and Sussex and since 1997 he has been the Judith E Wilson Lecture in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambrige. In 1995 he was poet in residence at the Tate Gallery, London. His books of poems include: Sheet Mettle (London: Alfred David Editions, 1994), Bench Marks (London: Alfred David Editions, 1998), The Damage: new and selected poems (Cambridge: Salt, 2001), Mars Disarmed (Barrington, M.A.: The Figures, 2002), Go Figure (Cambridge: Salt, 2003).

Jeff Hilson has been a prominent figure in London poetry since the 1980s. His publications includestretchers (Reality Street, 2006), Bird Bird (Landfill, 2009) and In the Assarts (Veer, 2010). He editedThe Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008) and runs the reading series Xing the Line. He teaches at the University of Roehampton.

Redell Olsen is a poet and visual artist whose work includes performance, writing and installed texts. Her recent publications include Secure Portable Space (Reality Street, 2004), Punk Faun (Subpress Books, 2012) and Film Poems (Les Figues, 2014). She was, for many years, the editor of the influential online journal HOW2 (How2journal.com), which promotes modernist and contemporary innovative poetry by women. She was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge for 2013-14, and she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway.

7.00-8.45     11 Bedford Square, London WC1

Runnymede Festival 
curated by Robert Hampson
All Welcome

Frank O’Hara Symposium at the ICA – 24th July 2016

Absract of Keynote Paper:

Frank O’Hara’s Poetics of Art Writing: ‘On Looking’ to the ‘Crowning of the Poet’ Redell Olsen

Grace Hartigan ‘Crowning of the Poet’ (1985)

Grace Hartigan ‘Crowning of the Poet’ (1985)

Frank O’Hara’s writing on art is diverse and crosses multiple genres from criticism, poetry to collaborative and visual works. In addition to critical writings on artists he often wrote poems on paintings, dedicated his poems to painters and made reference in his own poems to particular paintings from a range of art historical periods that included his own. In its diversity O’Hara’s art writing contributed to the conditions of mutual influence that emerged between the poets and writers who were his contemporaries. Grace Hartigan’s painting the ‘Crowning of the Poet’ (1985) demonstrates the ongoing effect of the poet on the artist nearly twenty years after O’Hara’s death. This talk will examine a number of paintings and works of art that relate in very different ways to O’Hara’s poems and explore the ways in which these paintings, when read in conjunction with O’Hara’s writings, might help us to re-imagine and to rethink the traditional modes used to describe the constellated and inter-related practices of poetry and painting.

Programme

See a Video of the Paper Here (Olsen at 4:09)

Poetry Reading

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Peter Gizzi
Redell Olsen

Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio

8pm Monday 9th November 2015

Please join us in welcoming Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow Peter
Gizzi, who will be reading with past fellow Redell Olsen

http://redellolsen.co.uk/

http://www.petergizzi.org/

Free entry and refreshments

Venue

Judith E Wilson Drama Studio
The Faculty of English, 9 West Road
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 9DP United Kingdom + Google Map
 

Film Poems….

Film Poems now available from Les Figues (Los Angeles). Contains film poems: Bucolic Picnic (or, toile de jouy camouflage) (2009), Newe Booke of Copies (2009-10), Lost Pool (2010), and S P R I G S & spots (2011-12).

Also published alongside the essay ‘To Quill At Film’ , published by Les Figues.

Reviews of ‘Film Poems’ by Erik Noonan and Rob Mclennan at The Small Press Book Review.

Phonographies 30. 08. 13

Live performance with film and recordings on wax cylinders.

30 August 2013 in Brighton, UK at the Nightingale Theatre.

Video documentation of the event at filmpoems

With thanks to Aleksander Kolkowski, Katy Price and Drew Milne.

 

Review of ‘I’ll Drown My Book’…

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne,
Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place

Review by Mia You
Les Figues Press | $40.00 | 455 pages | paper | ISBN 9781934254332

[ . . . . ] “The anthology’s most compelling selections, however, such as the excerpts from Christensen’s alphabet, Nada Gordon’s The Abuse of Mercury, Redell Olsen’s Punk Faun: A Bar Rock Pastel, and Bernadette Mayer’s “helen rezey sestina” and “HISTORY OF TROY, N.Y.,” resolutely are invested in the possibilities of writing as writing [. . . .]

Read the full review: http://www.zolandpoetry.com/reviews/2013/v1/Drown-My-Book.html

Phono-Poetry Event:

Phono-Poetry

Live event on 30 August 2013 in Brighton, UK at the Nightingale Theatre…

Featuring Redell Olsen, Holly Pester and Jeff Hilson – plus some other phonographic treats, including poems from the Mass Observation Archive and Aleksander Kolkowski whose archive Phonographies includes many contemporary musicians and sound artists, all recorded on wax cylinder to haunting effect.

Wax cylinders, digital recordings and more available here: !

Recording of event here…