Allen Fisher and John Hall reading at Dartington

If you’re in the South West area, Writing at Dartington are hosting a reading of poetry by Allen Fisher and John Hall this Thursday, February 9th. It will take place at Studio 3, Lower Close, Dartington College of Arts at 6.30pm. All are welcome and admission is free.

Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and writing poetry since 1962, so is well worth a special visit to Dartington if you’re not local. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced over one hundred and twenty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation and exhibited paintings in many shows. Examples of his work are in the Tate Gallery collection and the Living Museum, Iceland. Allen Fisher works with extended projects. Three recent publications are Gravity (Salt Publishing, 2004), Entanglement (The Gig, 2005) and Place (various books 1974-81 republished in collected form by Reality Street in 2005). Allen Fisher is currently Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.

John Hall is a poet, teacher and essayist, whose first poems were published in 1966, so again, well worth a special trip. His selected poems came out from Etruscan Books in 1999 under the title of Else Here. Much of his recent writing has taken the form of visual poems and his first exhibition of visual poems, called Loose-idity, was shown in the Dartington Gallery in February 2002. He is Associate Director of Research and Lecturer in Performance Writing at Dartington College.