Poetry Reading at Parasol unit
Event starts promptly at 6.30pm
Since Parasol unit opened its door to the public, poetry readings have been a favourite. These exciting and enlivening events have been coordinated by the poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky.
Tuesday, 31 October, 6:30 PM - Sue Hubbard and Carrie Etter
Sue Hubbard is an award winning poet, novelist and art critic. Twice winner of the London writers competition she was the Poetry Society´s Public Art Poet and created London´s largest poem for the IMAX at Waterloo. She has published a number of pamphlets and two acclaimed collections, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon) and Ghost Station (Salt). Her first novel Depth of Field was published by Dewi Lewis. She is the recipient of a major arts council award to support the writing of her current book. As an art critic she writes artists´catalogues and regularly for The Independent.
American expat Carrie Etter has published poems in Jacket, The Liberal, Oasis, Poetry Review, Shearsman, and TLS. On her chapbook Subterfuge for the Unrequitable (Potes & Poets, 1998), Ron Silliman remarked, "To 'register the tongue's torque,' Carrie Etter's poems show great skill and a willingness to take risks, both rare things in a 'first book.' This writing is simultaneously 'out there' and always also immediately present (in the most literal sense of 'with it'), an experience that is by turns centering and dizzying. It's quite a ride."
The readings are organized and introduced by Barry Schwabsky. Previous readers have been Tim Atkins, Guy Bennett, Kelvin Corcoran, Linh Dinh, Mark Ford, Lee Harwood, Vincent Katz, Redell Olsen, Anthony Rudolf, Leslie Scalapino, Barry Schwabsky, John Seed, Simon Smith, Carol Szymanski and Catherine Wagner.
Readings begin at 6:30 PM and are free to the public.
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1, near the Old Street and Angel tube stations.
