Latin American Poetry Multilingual Readings and Booklaunch

Wednesday 13th October, 7.40pm

Cecilia Vicuña is presenting her film Kon Kon (54 mins) at the Native Sprit Festival.

Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

Wednesday 20th October, 7.30pm

Cecilia Vicuña will be presenting the recently published Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry in Translation. One of the editors of the book, Cecilia Vicuña is a highly respected Chilean poet, performer, and filmmaker. She will be showing a short film of the visual poetry included in the book and reading her work and work by other poets.

Readers:

• Sean Bonney
• Ruth Fainlight
• Gregorio Fontaine
• Harry Gilonis
• Goia
• Frances Kruk
• Stephen Mooney
• James O'Hern
• Albert Pellicer
• William Rowe
• Cecilia Vicuña

Room 421, Birkbeck College, Main Building, London

Thursday 21st October, 6.30pm

The Native Spirit Festival is hosting a poetry reading by:

• Albert Pellicer
• William Rowe
• Cecilia Vicuña
• Stephen Watts

Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman