Time: 20:00
Producer: Coffee-House Poetry
Price: £6.50, £5.50
Get ready delve deeply into places you've been pining for...
Bring along the compass of the imagination
Surf to http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/
See you at The Troubadour [263-267 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA]
A charmed soiree where invited poets read out well-known classics on the theme of ‘infinite space’, along with their own interpretations. Anything from the psyche’s interior, to the vast isolations of beyond… When Glens of Antrim poet, John Hewitt, wrote, I have turned to the landscape because men disappoint me, he wasn’t the first to swap bustle of city or court (think As You Like It) for landscape, mountain range, forest clearing, for unlimited vistas of uncluttered space far from this or that madding crowd, sentiments echoed by Cole Porter in Don’t Fence Me In, and Caspar David Friedrich in his iconic painting, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
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But space has new meanings now as planetary mysteries which provided metaphysical poets’ intimations of infinity have become just so much common culture post-Gagarin, in Kubrick’s Space Odyssey or Bowie’s Space Oddity, not to mention Star Wars, Star Trek and the epic adventure Auden celebrated in Moon Landing (1969).
And Space Invaders invaded home PCs just around the time we all found our personal space invaded by all and sundry, from chuggers to muzak—when we discovered we needed space, our own space, living space, tight corners, workspaces, space-saving gadgets, breathing space, Yeats’ little space for the rose-breath to fill… even MySpace!
So come along and find out whether space—for our invited guest poets, reading their own and others’ poems—means the reflective depths of the psyche’s interior spaces or the vast isolations of Western prairie, Russian steppe, Antarctic ice-floe, perhaps Captain Kirk’s final frontier …or simply not being crushed on the Tube. Plus the usual chance to test your spatial knowledge in our not-too-literary literary prize quiz (with themed music…)
Look out for talented RR reader Camila Fiori!
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