How does geographic and cultural displacement change what we can say and write? Is there a poetics of displacement? This event took these questions as its
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Poetry by Rob Halpern, Peter Gizzi & Matvei Yankelevich
On 19 May 2016 the CPRC hosted US poets Rob Halpern, Peter Gizzi and Matvei Yankelevich.
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Launch of ‘Magic Town’ by Veer Books
On Wednesday 18th May Veer Books Launched Magic Town (London: Veer Books, 2016) a new book of poems by Larry Kearney. Larry also gave a
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Veer Book Launch: Alice Lyons ‘The Breadbasket of Europe’
Alice Lyons’ The Breadbasket of Europe was launched at Birkbeck on Wed 16th March 2016.
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Verdant Intersections
On the 4 March 2016 the CPRC hosted ‘Verdant Intersections: An Event on Landscape, Ecology, Poetry and Performance’
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Spiralbound Reading
On the 9 April 2016 hosted a reading by three Spiralbound authors: Ghazal Mosadeq, Andrew Spragg and Florence Uniacke. Ghazal Mosadeq is a writer, poet and
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Veer Book Launch
On the 13 January 2016 poets Adrian Clarke, Doug Jones, Nat Raha and William Rowe all launched new books at Birkbeck.
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The London launch of ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ by Jennifer Cooke
On 4 December 2015 the CPRC hosted the London launch of Apocalypse Dreams by Jennifer Cooke.
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London Launch of ‘Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine’
On the 2 December, 2015, the CPRC organised the London launch of Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine, ed. Ru Freeman (New York: Or Books, 2015).
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Robert Grenier at the CPRC
On the 20 October, 2015, Robert Grenier visited the CPRC to present his visual and verbal work, including images from his poem-drawing project r h
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