Friday, 22 November 2019 at 5:00 pm – Saturday, 23 November 2019 at 5:00 pm
Poetry Emergency ii: a northwest radical poetry festival
Date: Friday 22rd November - Saturday 23th November
Full programme, and tickets, will be available soon
https://poetryemergency.wordpress.com/
Poetry Emergency is a two-day festival exploring emergency and liveness in radical poetic art, taking place in Salford and Manchester on 22nd and 23rd November 2019. Bringing together some of the most challenging and surprising poets and performers of the moment, we ask how poetic art can intervene against passivity and fear in order to agitate and inspire. In the emergency-prone moment of anxiety and disaster-creation, how can the mini-revolutions of language art snowball into communities of support and resistance? After a first event in 2018 which shook us up and re-figured us beyond anything we could have hoped for, we’re so excited to bring Poetry Emergency back, and to once again bring together a rare and exciting programme to the North West, crossing between poetry readings and performance, alongside workshops and discussions.
Friday 22rd November ~ Salford University, various venues, M5 4WT
A day of workshops, seminars & discussion, followed by an evening of performance.
Saturday 23th November ~ 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
A day of poetry & poetry-adjacent performance
Saturday 23th November, evening ~ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, M4 1LE
An evening of poetry-theatre, & merriment
Line-up includes:
- Fatema Abdoolcarim
- Meg Boulton, Jason Edwards and Maddie Boden perform Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Gloria Dawson
- Callie Gardner
- James Goodwin
- Edmund Hardy
- Tom Jenks
- Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon
- Jazz Linklater
- Generic Greeting Collective
- Geraldine Monk & Alan Halsey
- Luna Montenegro & Adrian Fisher
- Ghazal Mosadeq
- Alice Notley
- Azad Ashim Sharma
- Ashwani Sharma
- Kashif Sharma-Patel
- Zoë Svendsen
- Scott Thurston
Full programme, and tickets, will be available soon
https://poetryemergency.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/poetryemergency
https://www.instagram.com/poetryemergency/
Generously supported by the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership, the University of Salford, and Manchester Metropolitan University
Artwork by Will Berry