The Cambridge Poetry Festival was an international biennale for poetry held in Cambridge, England, between 1975 and 1985.[1] The festival was founded in an attempt to combine as many aspects as possible of this form of art.[2] Thus Michael Hamburger could, for example, recite his English interpretations of Paul Celan's poetry in the presence of Gisèle Lestrange and a surprisingly large audience at an art gallery bestowed on her engravings.[3][4] The last biennale in 1985 included a number of events to mark Ezra Pound's centenary, including the exhibition Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy at Kettle's Yard (later also shown at the Tate Gallery),[5] and was accompanied by a special issue of the magazine P.N. Review.[6]
Literature[]
- Martin Booth: British poetry 1964 to 1984: driving through the barricades (Routledge, 1985).
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: The Last One: Readings / Autorenlesungen, Cambridge Poetry Festival 1975 [Audio-book] [CD], 59 min. (Intermedium Records, 2005)
References[]
- ↑ Blair-Underwood, Alison (2012), "Open account - A memoir: the Cambridge Poetry Festival", Blackbox Manifold, Issue 9: Peter Robinson at Sixty, Blackbox Manifold, http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue9/AlisonBlairUnderwoodPR9.html, retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ Richard Burns, 'The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1975' .
- ↑ John Pilling, Review: The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1979, Florida State University, USA.
- ↑ For another reminiscence of the 1979 festival, see Waldrop, Rosmarie (2002), Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, Wesleyan University Press, p. 98, ISBN 0-8195-6580-6.
- ↑ Richard Humphreys (editor), Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy, London (Tate Gallery), June 1985, ISBN 0-946590-29-X
- ↑ PN Review 46 November - December 1985, http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?toc=2;volume=12
External links[]
- Elizabeth Thomas and Richard Burns, 'Cambridge Poetry Festival', The New York Review of Books, October 3 1974
- Rat Palace by Tom Pickard, 19 April 1977
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