Poetry @ UEA: 3 Readings: JIM GOAR / SAM RIVIERE / NATHAN HAMILTON

Poetry @ UEA: 3 Readings


JIM GOAR / SAM RIVIERE / NATHAN HAMILTON


on Thursday 2nd February

in Arts 2.51

at 5.30 pm

Please come and enjoy three short readings by current PhD students in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

*No* free wine will be served. *No* questions will be invited. *All* will be over by 6.30. *Tell* your social network you were there.

JIM GOAR received an MFA from Naropa University and studied Jack Spicer’s The Holy Grail for the critical component of his Ph.D. at UEA. In 2010, Reality Street brought out his first full length collection, Seoul Bus Poems. A second book, The Louisiana Purchase (2011), is available from Rose Metal Press. He edits the journal, past simple. http://www.pastsimple.org/

SAM RIVIERE co-edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives, and was a recipient of a 2009 Eric Gregory Award. Faber & Faber published his pamphlet in 2010 as part of their New Poets scheme. A new sequence, ’81 Austerities’, written for his Creative-Critical PhD thesis, will form part of a first collection with Faber & Faber, due 2012. http://www.samriviere.com/

NATHAN HAMILTON received an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. His PhD thesis is currently entitled Albion & Ariston - UK Poetics Since the 1950s. He has been involved in pioneering the new UEA Creative Writing website, newwriting.net, and runs Egg Box Publishing. He is currently compiling a groundbreaking new anthology of young poets for Bloodaxe entitled Dear World And Everyone In It, due 2012. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Guardian, The Spectator, The Rialto, Five Dials, The Manhattan Review and The Wolf. http://www.eggboxpublishing.com/

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black eyes

Comrade Lovejoy has survived. The Sun asks for a rematch. 

behind the bar at the Rose

Yes, I am happy

Had a run of really nice days. Read down in Cambridge and then a few days later at Xing the Line in London. At each place I got to see some of my favorite poets. There were more favorite poets, but these are the photos where I am standing next to that favorite poet and being happy.

Aiden Semmens. Goar. Peter Riley in Cambridge

Goar. Geraldine Monk. Xing the Line. London

Goar. Ken Edwards. Xing the Line. London

Goar. Peter Riley. Cambridge

Xing evidence

Photos by Sang-yeon Lee unless noted
Photo of Jeff Hilson and Jim Goar by Sharon Borthwick
Jim Goar by Sharon Borthwick

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Free Shipping on the Weekend of the Launch

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