Script, Shape and Image - the Poem and the Page (E14), Perception (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 3-4 pm
With Jo Morris Dixon, Shash Trevett, Lisa Kelly, Harry Man and Endre Ruset. This event was hosted by Patricia Debney
How do form and image – what is on the page, and what is not – shape poetry? How can they be used to speak about otherwise difficult things? The three projects explored in this session move between image, script, and shape as ways of reaching their material. Jo Morris Dixon’s debut pamphlet, I told you everything (Verve Press 2021), addresses coming-of-age themes which are often unexplored elsewhere, and Shash Trevett’s pamphlet From a Borrowed Land (Smith Doorstop 2021) is ‘…a troubling and enriching body of work, including both original poems and translations’ (Sasha Dugdale), which ‘… speaks for ‘a people now without a place’ (Vidyan Ravinthiran). In her most recent pamphlet From the Ikea Back Catalogue (New Walk, 2021), Lisa Kelly’s imagination ‘…wander[s] the … endless aisles of Ikea, [and] delves into language…’ (Briony Bax) through erasure and experiment, while Harry Man’s and Endre Ruset’s pamphlet Utøya Thereafter (Hercules Editions, 2021), deals with grief, the response to extreme right wing terrorism, literary translation, and healing, through a series of concrete elegies.
