LONDON: Luxury Goods Poetry Set

Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE

The Courtyard Theatre,

40 Pitfield Street,

London,

N1 6EU

Luxury Goods, the independent 50-word arts festival, presents an evening of poetry and performance at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton, drawing together poets from Nottingham, Sheffield, London, and Berlin

Wayne Burrows (wayneburrows.wordpress.com), editor of Staple magazine, presents ‘Disturbances’, a multimedia performance on a celluloid obsession.

Kirsten Irving (www.drfulminare.com/k.php): editor of Sidekick Books and author of Never Never Never Come Back (Salt).

Gaby Bila-Günther (www.myspace.com/ladygaby): performance and visual artist from Berlin.

Robin Vaughan-Williams (www.zeroquality.net/zqme) out-shouts the juggernauts in poems from the road.

Michael Glover (www.bowwowshop.org.uk): poet, journalist, and editor of the Bow-Wow Shop.

Doors open at 7pm, the spoken word set runs 7.30–8.45pm, and is followed at 9pm by a symposium on the Festival theme, 'the reality of art'.

See the full Festival programme:
http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/251/luxury-goods-london-vi-the-reality-of-art

Wayne Burrows and Robin Vaughan-Williams will also be reading alongside Anna Robinson and Georgina Lock at Lee Rosy's Tea in Nottingham on 9 May: http://www.zeroquality.net/zqblog/?p=499