To celebrate publication of a special issue of Chicago Review on

British Poetry

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/

KESTON SUTHERLAND - ANDREA BRADY - PETER MANSON

will be reading at

Notre Dame, Chicago, Miami (Ohio), Buffalo (NY), Boston...

All readings are open to the public.

Please feel welcome.

Please pass this message on to those you think may be interested.

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WEDNESDAY 4TH APRIL

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

6.00-8.00pm Poetry Reading

210-214 McKenna Hall

2.00-4.30pm, a panel debate will be held on Contemporary Poetry and

Politics in Britain and the US, launched by brief papers from British

and Notre Dame scholars.

On Tuesday 3rd April at 3.00 the short film River Pearls will receive

its premiere. This documents a conference of Chinese and British

avant-garde poets in Guangzhou, South China, in 2005, and will be

introduced by two of the British poets involved and a Notre Dame

China scholar.

ETS Theatre, McKenna Hall

These events and free and open to the public. Further information can

be found at the Notre Dame Creative writing calendar, http://

www.nd.edu/~alcwp/activities.html

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THURSDAY 5TH APRIL

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

5.30pm in Rosenwald 405 - Poetry reading

http://poempresent.uchicago.edu/

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FRIDAY 6TH APRIL

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

1.00pm in Ronsewald 405. - Talks. Papers by Andrea Brady and Keston

Sutherland followed by open discussion.

 http://poempresent.uchicago.edu/

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FRIDAY 6TH APRIL

CHICAGO

8.00pm, Discrete Series at Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Floor.

Poetry Reading and launch

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MONDAY 9TH APRIL

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

7:30-9:30 p.m. IN 337 Bachelor (Reading Room)

A panel discussion on contemporary British and American poetry

http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events.html#britpoets

TUESDAY 10TH APRIL

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

8.00-9:30 p.m. in 40 Irvin

Poetry reading

http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events.html#britpoets

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THURSDAY 12TH APRIL

SUNY, BUFFALO

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus

2pm: Round Table Discussion featuring Sam Ladkin,

Robin Purves and others

4pm: Readings by Andrea Brady, Peter Manson and Keston

Sutherland

http://www.literarybuffalo.org/ub_events.htm

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FRIDAY 13TH APRIL

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, BOSTON

7.00pm Thomson Room

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NEW YORK

Keston Sutherland, Andrea Brady and Matt Ffytche are available for

readings in New York between Sunday 15th April and Tuesday 17th April

if anything can be arranged.

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CHICAGO REVIEW

The latest issue of Chicago Review --- a special issue on British

poetry --- is now available!

The 232-page issue is $12 in the US and £8 in UK (including priority

shipping) and may be ordered online from this address:

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/purchase531.html

Subscriber and contributor copies are now in the mail.

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The issue's main feature --- co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin &

Robin Purves --- presents 80-pages of poems by:

Andrea Brady

Chris Goode

Peter Manson  &

Keston Sutherland

As well as critical contributions by John Wilkinson  (on Andrea

Brady), Jeremy Noel-Tod (on Peter Manson), Sam Ladkin (in

conversation with Chris Goode), Simon Jarvis (on Keston Sutherland),

& Matt Ffytche (on Keston Sutherland).

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This feature complements our regular review section, which presents

fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry:

Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson

Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne

V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood

R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam

Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith

Leila Wilson on Sarah Law

Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch

Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin

Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark

John Lennox on Geraldine Monk

Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall

Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson

Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull

Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney

Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan

The issue also includes the following material:

A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets, including:

Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, & Sean Bonney

Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner

Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry

1945–2000"

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