You are warmly invited to this fortnight’s staff-postgraduate
CONTEMPORARY POETRY DISCUSSION GROUP.
All with an interest in literature are welcome!
We’re meeting on:
THURSDAY 12th July at 4:30pm
in HUMSS 112
Whiteknights Campus
We’ll be discussing the performance poetry of Rafeef Ziadah, the Palestinian spoken-word artist and activist.
Amongst the topics we’re likely to discuss are:
the different literary experiences that arise for us when reading a printed page of poems or listening to the spoken word; poetry and performance (especially politics, voice and physical presence), the ethics of receiving and responding to politically-active poetry, the ways history, tradition, place and space are configured in Ziadah’s art.
You might take a look at:
“We teach life, sir”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtMShades of Anger (also included below, but this is a better recording):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vFJE93LTI&feature=relatedBreathe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFzsSX4JqoMontreal Subway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RliwQz2VU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtMShades of Anger (also included below, but this is a better recording):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vFJE93LTI&feature=relatedBreathe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFzsSX4JqoMontreal Subway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RliwQz2VU
Baghdad/Savage Terrorist/Shades of Anger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnc752bK64
Hadeel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhT7iKMshY&feature=related
The session will be guest-led by Nick Hocking, from Birkbeck.
