Thursday, 25th October, 2012, 6.30pm, FREE
Wood Green Library,
187-197A High Road,
Wood Green,
N22 6XD (nearest tube: Wood Green)
Arc Poets Bejan Matur and Katherine
Gallagher at the Bejan Matur
closes a week-long UK reading tour alongside Australian-born Arc poet Katherine
Gallagher. This pairing of two spirited poets will make for an
evening of sensuality and heat, a shimmering intensity of wordplay, mythologies
and idiosyncratic humour. There will be an informal Q&A after the reading.
Bejan Matur comes highly endorsed by Orhan
Pamuk and John Berger, and is a charismatic reader. Her latest book, How
Abraham Abandoned Me, is a philosophical pilgrimage in the Anatolian desert,
rich in Islamic iconography. Currently, Matur devotes all her time to writing
poetry, and contributes to an internet journal and newspapers, writing on
Kurdish politics, Armenian and women issues.
Katherine Gallagher has read her poetry at
festivals and universities in the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy and France and
her poems have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian
and Serbian. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Writing in
Education. In 1978, she was awarded a Writer’s Fellowship from the
Literature Board, Australia Council, and in 1981, she won the Brisbane Warana
Poetry Prize. Her book Passengers to the City (Hale & Iremonger, Sydney,
1985) was shortlisted for the John Bray National Poetry Award.
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