17. 01. 14 : Blackbox Poetry Reading

BLACKBOX POETRY READING featuring VAHNI
CAPILDEO, MICHAEL FARRELL, and DREW MILNE reading from their work.

FRIDAY 17th January from 7.30pm to 9.00pm in the Drama Studio, Faculty
of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

Free wine!

Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose, based in
Oxford. Her poetry collections are: /No Traveller Returns/ (Salt, 2003),
/Person Animal Figure/ (Landfill Press, 2005), /The Undraining Sea/
(Eggbox, 2009), and /Utter/ (Peepal Tree Press, 2013).

Michael Farrell is in the UK on a Menzies scholarship. He has recently
completed a PhD on the theme of an Australian unsettlement poetics. His
poems are included in ‘Outcrop: Radical Australian Poetry of Land’
(Black Rider 2013); his most recent book is /open sesame/ (Giramondo 2012).

Drew Milne has been the Judith E. Wilson Lecturer in Drama & Poetry in
the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, since 1997. His
collections of poetry include /The Damage/ (Salt, 2001), /Go Figure/
(Salt, 2003), /Burnt Laconics Bloom/ (Oystercatcher, 2013), and with
John Kinsella, /Reactor Red Shoes/ (Veer, 2013)

<http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/>