Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Upstairs at Duroc Reading Series

Upstairs at Duroc magazine (literary journal of WICE) will be hosting a reading by three excellent poets in March.

They are Todd Swift, Claire Potter and Rufo Quintavalle.

at: Berkeley Books of Paris
8 rue Casimir Delavigne
75006 Paris
Tel: 01.46.34.85.73

Metro: Odeon

7 PM, Monday March 19, 2007

Todd Swift is the author of three collections of poetry: Budavox, Cafe Alibi and Rue du Regard, editor of numerous international poetry anthologies and poetry editor of nthposition.com. He has been Oxfam Great Britain's poet-in-residence since 2004.

Claire Potter is author of the chapbook 'In Front of a Comma' and a forthcoming collection of prose poems (with Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2007) is the translator of some of Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray & currently Michel Deguy's work. She was the recipient of a 2006 Young Australian Poet Awards and 2006 winner of Abbey Bookshop's Short Story competition.

Rufo Quintavalle is a British poet with an Italian name who lives in France. His work has appeared in The Wolf, Barrow Street, nthposition, MiPOesias, Louis Liard and elimae. Translations of his poems are forthcoming in Literaturen vestnik (Bulgaria).

1 comment:

Ms Baroque said...

Wish I could come along!