4th Prague Microfestival, 12-16 May 2012

Prague Microfestival is a festival centering on contemporary innovative poetry whose dazzling string of readings will take off daily at 6pm (with the exception of Tue May 15th) and will showcase thirty poets from eight countries, a gig at each festival night's closing and an exhibition of art thematically related to the festival. The festival languages are English and Czech and the entry is free.  Among others, the festival will offer a launch of the freshly pressed PMF 2011 anthology Polibek s rozvodnou (including 17 authors in Czech translation), launch of the international revue  for literature and visual arts VLAK 3 and the title Cartographies of the In-Between, devoted to the poetry of Pierre Joris.

PMF poets share willingness to experiment and to examine language, boundary bewteen the word and sound, territories. Some of them are authors of "translocal" poetry, some of them members of the Prague anglophone scene, some of them poets associated with presses like Dusie, Veer Books, and others.

The festival is held with the kind support of the Psí Víno magazine, Petr Štengl Press, Polish Institute Prague, Litteraria Pragensia, Equus Press, A2 magazine, Kulturní noviny and others.     

Venue: K4 student club (Celetná Street 20, Prague)

Featured this year from Veer Books will be readings by Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Adrian Clarke, Becky Cremin and William Rowe, plus the launch of R.T.A Parker's new book from Veer, The Traveller & The Defence of Heaven

The full schedule is:

Sat 12 May
18:00
  Cartographies launch: Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh

Zofia Baldyga, Pawel Uszynski

Samuel Langer, Joel Scott

Ondře j Zajac
Alabama Crackhouse Experience (Scott Martingel, Cralan Kelder)

20:00   Turpentine Ray

Sun 13 May
18:00
  Alistair Noon, Joshua Mensch

Kloaka: Michal Rehúš
, Holly Pester

Veer Books: Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney

20:00  Ken Nash + Ocean Versus Daughter (Flanna Sheridan)

Mon 14 May
18:00  
Dusie Press: panel (Susana Gardner, Maria Damon)

Jaromír Typlt

Adrian Clarke, Becky Cremin

VLAK3 launch (Richard Parker, Christopher Crawford)

20:00  Jakub Zahradník and Pianosaurus

Tue 15 May
17:30  
Herzog Herzog music set

Louis Armand

Jeff Hilson, William Rowe

Vlado Šimek & Herzog Herzog

Josef Straka

Susana Gardner

20:00  No Pavarotti

Wed 16 May
18:00
  Psí Víno 

Cris Cheek

Pavel Novotný

Catherine Hales

Donna Stonecipher

Ondřej Buddeus & Lukáš Kosek

Laura Conway

20:00 Phil Shoenfelt

Detailed info including the up-to-date programme, authors' bios and photos from previous years can be found at http://praguemicrofestival.wordpress.com/