Play (1) : (E6), Messing About and Crossing Out, Friday 5th November 2021, 7-8 PM
With James McDermott, Katie Griffiths, Jon Stone and Chrissy Williams. This event was hosted by Jane Commane.
Drawing on the language of comedy and clowning in an exploration of identity in the face of loss, Chrissy Williams’s LOW interrogates humour’s role in enacting the possibility of change. With poems that eavesdrop, extract and sift, Jon Stone’s Sandsnarl blends poetry with fantasy-world-building and elements of digital and analogue gameplay. Canadian born Katie Griffiths will read from her first collection The Attitudes with poems that bring “a mercurial inventiveness to the serious concerns at… poetry's core – belief, selfhood and the soul” (Moniza Alvi). Hear James McDermott read from Erased, his ‘iridescent revision of the canon’ – a series of erasures on found homophobic newspaper articles, speeches, legislations, and biblical passages revealing queer subtexts and reclaiming works that tried to erase gay lives.
