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ReIncarnation Biographies #6: Gwyneth Herbert

May 20, 2015 / / 0 Comments
Gwyneth Herbert

Gwyneth Herbert

The sixth person in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is the singer/songwriter Gwyneth Herbert.

Gwyneth Herbert is a strikingly original performer, award-winning composer and lyricist, and versatile musical adventurer who continues to redefine and challenge expectations. With one foot in the jazz world and the other somewhere in the future, she has released six albums to date on both major and independent labels, including the first Blue Note UK release for 30 years.

Since the huge success of 2013’s large-scale cross-artform project “The Sea Cabinet” (the result of an Aldeburgh Music residency), Herbert has seen her musical co-written with celebrated playwright Diane Samuels open at the Southwark Playhouse, and, with artist Mel Brimfield, has built a Fun Palace in Stratford Station, and a musical film installation about sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in Sheffield. She’s also spent a month in Kenya collecting lullabies, sharing songs in slum schools, and staging multi-tribe storytelling happenings under the Mombasa stars.

“If Hans Eisler had been a woman and written with Ray Davies, he might have come up with something like this” – Independent on Sunday

“Brilliantly original – full of space and isolated detail” – MOJO

“A remarkably gifted talent” – The Guardian

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

Here’s the video for Gwyneth’s single Perfect Fit.

ReIncarnation Biographies #5: Janaka Stucky

May 20, 2015 / / 0 Comments
Janaka Stucky

photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz

The fifth poet in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is Janaka Stucky.

Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean as well as the annual poetry journal, Handsome. He is the author of two chapbooks: Your Name Is The Only Freedom and The World Will Deny It For You. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in The Boston Phoenix. His first full-length book, the first single-author title from Third Man Books, is The Truth Is We Are Perfect.

“Stucky’s verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker.”—Bill Knott

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

ReIncarnation Biographies #4: Adam Horovitz

May 19, 2015 / / 0 Comments

adam horovitz publicity picThe fourth poet in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is Adam Horovitz.

Born in 1971, Horovitz has been active as a poet since the 1990s, treading a fine line between page and performance poetry. He released his first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, in 2004 and a second, The Great Unlearning, in 2009. He was the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival’s official website in 2009 and was voted onto the Hospital Club 100 in 2010 as an ’emerging talent’. His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2012. In 2014, he released A Thousand Laurie Lees, a verse-fuelled memoir from The History Press, and Only the Flame Remains (Yew Tree Press) and was one of five British poets selected by Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2015 to be part of the pan-European Versopolis project.

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

Here’s a poem by Adam Horovitz from his Soundcloud account.

ReIncarnation Biographies #3: Malika Booker

May 19, 2015 / / 0 Comments
Malika Booker (photo by Naomi Woddis)

Malika Booker (photo by Naomi Woddis)

The third poet in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is Malika Booker.

Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage and the founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her collection Pepper Seed was published by Peepal Tree Press (2013) and longlisted for the OCM Bocas 2014 prize. Pepper Seed was also shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She received her MA from Goldsmiths University and was recently awarded the Cultural Fellowship in Creative Writing/ Literary Art post at Leeds University. Malika was the first British poet to be a fellow at Cave Canem and the inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

ReIncarnation Biographies #2: Libby Houston

May 18, 2015 / / 0 Comments
Libby Houston

Libby Houston

The second person in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is the poet and botanist Libby Houston.

Libby first performed for Michael Horovitz’s Live New Departures at the 1961 Edinburgh Festival. Since then she has read her work world-wide, appearing last at the Roundhouse in 1967. BBC Schools Radio commissioned her to create a series of much-loved storytelling poems for children. Cover of Darkness (Slow Dancer Press, 1999) included most of her work of the 20th century. She was married to the late Mal Dean, artist, cartoonist & free jazz trumpeter (d. 1974), and she is currently working as a botanist in Bristol, specialising in plants on cliffs. She also has a species of Whitebeam named after, one of the many she discovered on the Avon Gorge in Bristol.

“an unusual metaphysical intelligence…” Carol Rumens, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry (1994)

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

ReIncarnation Biographies #1: Francesca Beard

May 18, 2015 / / 0 Comments

PoeticaOpenBookFirst up in our series of introductions to performers taking part in International Poetry ReIncarnation at the Roundhouse in Camden on 30th May 2015 is the marvellous Francesca Beard.

Described as ‘witty and narcotic’, (Independent), ‘one of our finest cartographers of the human heart’, (London Metro) and ‘a quality guarantee’, Francesca Beard is a poet whose shows have toured nationally with Apples and Snakes and internationally with the British Council. She’s written for the Royal Court, Young Vic, BBC Radio 3 and 4 and has been writer in residence at the BBC, Barbican, Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Natural History Museum, Metropolitan Police and Clissold Leisure Centre. She runs workshops abroad and at home for all ages. She is currently writing a new one woman show  ‘A Lie’, and developing  ‘Storyverse’, a participatory experience for live audiences and on-line communities with B3 Media, supported by ACE and residencies at Banff Centre Canada and Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University.

Get your tickets for the evening’s star-laden performance here: The International Poetry ReIncarnation

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