After Dinner Event (2): Performance in the Pub at the virtual 'Cross Keys' (E10), Saturday 13th November 2020, 9-10 PM
Our host for this event is Jill Abram
A delicious tone of eavesdropping binds these three readings as we are called to contemplate the binds that tie us to one another. Fact, fiction and fantasy share an equal playing field through poems of dream lovers, friends and inner-city neighbours. In These Queer Merboys, Serge ♆ Neptune invites the reader into his mythical dreamscape of mermen, a world charged with powerful eroticism where desire is fraught with danger. Ali Lewis’s Hotel tackles the complexities of modern relationships and city living, communicating that ‘we exist in rooms of similar layouts and puts a glass to the walls between so we might overhear’ (Poetry Book Society). Arji Manuelpillai’s Mutton Rolls addresses subjects of Sri-Lankan British identity, masculinity, friendship, grief and love with a tone that embraces a tender satire. Jill Abram presents these readings: her own often mischievous poems describe the semi-fictitious lives of family and friends with sass and poignancy.
n.b The Open Mic that followed 'Performance in the Pub' has not been recorded.
