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Dartington Campus Readings 2009 with Marianne Morris and Tony Lopez

Marianne Morris and Tony Lopez

Thursday 26 February

Studio 3 at 7.30pm

A brand new series of four evening performances dedicated to reading will take place at the Dartington Campus, once a month, starting in January and continuing until April. The series will feature some of the most innovative and dynamic writers currently working in the UK ranging from those who have published their first major collection in the last few years to those who have many books behind them. The performances will take place in Studio 3, one of the best technically-equipped studios in the region, and will include highly thoughtful and measured readings, dynamic vocal performances, as well as engagements with a range of audio-visual media.

Marianne Morris was born in Canada and raised in London. She studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge and currently resides in London Bad Press in 2002, and together with Jow Lindsay and Jonathan Stevenson now publishes occasional poetry chapbooks and magazines. writing poetry and prose, making collage pieces and the odd bit of taxidermy. She founded

Her published poetry includes: A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); Cocteau Turquoise TurningFetish Poems (Bad Press, 2004); Gathered Tongue (2003); Memento Mori (Bad Press, 2003); Poems in Order (Bad Press, 2002). (2004);

Tony Lopez’s most recent poetry collections are Covers (Salt, 2007) and False Memory (Salt, 2003), which was a book of the year in the New Statesman and poetry book of the year in the Guardian. He has received awards from The Wingate Foundation, The Society of Authors and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His poetry is featured in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford), Vanishing Points (Salt), Other (Wesleyan) and Conductors of Chaos (Picador). His critical writings are collected in Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt, 2006) and The Poetry of W.S. Graham (Edinburgh University Press, 1989). He has given readings throughout the UK, Europe and North America. He teaches in England at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry in 2000. His website is at http://www.tonylopez.org.uk

26 February 2009 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm