Friday 8th May
7:30pm
Keynes Library (114), 43 Gordon Square
The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre presents a reading from Simon Pettet: an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side.
Hearth, his Collected Poems and As A Bee (an addenda to his Collected Poems) appeared recently from Talisman. Talisman also issued his Selected Poems (1995) and the volume More Winnowed Fragments (2006). Pettet also compiled and edited the Selected Art Writings (Black Sparrow, 1998) of the poet James Schuyler, as well as co-editing with James Meetze Other Flowers (FSG, 2010), Schuyler's posthumous poems. Pettet made two celebrated collaborations with photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt – Conversations about Everything (Vehicle, 1987) and Talking Pictures (Zoland, 1994), as well as a fine-arts limited edition, Abundant Treasures (Granary Books, 2001) with painter, Duncan Hannah.
"American and British poetry's most meticulous craftsperson. We dig the purity, dogged love, and artistic devotion of this rare personage […] A highly recommended volume" — Alice Notley on Hearth.
"His poetry is always insightful, ardent, playful, right on the spot, and ahead of the current" — Joanne Kyger on As A Bee.
All welcome to this event.
Image by Chris Goldberg, used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 licence.
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