Reading Series
Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival
The Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival was held at Cambridge University from 6-8 October 2006 and organised by Emily Critchley with help from Catherine Brown. Readers include Tim Atkins, Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady, Coupons Coupons, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Kathleen Fraser, Susana Gardner, Carol Mirakove, Geraldine Monk, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Maggie O'Sullivan, Camille PB, Tom Raworth, Lisa Samuels, Kaia Sand, Leslie Scalapino, Susan Schultz, Catherine Wagner, and Africa Wayne.
Read Emily Critchley's introduction to the festival.
All the media below are MP3 sound files unless indicated otherwise.
Tim Atkins
- 'Horace' 1
- 'Horace' 2
- 'Horace' 3
- 'Petrarch' 1
- 'Petrarch' 10
- 'Petrarch' 11
- 'Petrarch' 12
- 'Petrarch' 13
- 'Petrarch' 14
- 'Petrarch' 15
- 'Petrarch' 16
- 'Petrarch' 2
- 'Petrarch' 3
- 'Petrarch' 4
- 'Petrarch' 5
- 'Petrarch' 6
- 'Petrarch' 7
- 'Petrarch' 8
- 'Petrarch' 9
Caroline Bergvall
- Fig.4
- 'Fuses' - after Carolee Schneeman
- Fig.1
- Fig.7
- The Franker Tale
- The Host's Tale
- The Not Tale
- The Summer Tale
Susana Gardner
- 'Of Rigorous Wanting and Song'
- 'To Stand to Sea'
- 'Were a Woman an Insel'
- gardner-susana_scrawl_brunel_2006.mp3
Wendy Mulford
- 'Chinese Postcard Sequence'
- 'I China Am'
- 'La Pitié Salpetrière
- 'Self and Self'
- 'The Bay of Naples' 1
- 'The Bay of Naples' 2
Tom Raworth
- Fourteen Line Pieces 1
- Fourteen Line Pieces 2
- 'A More Refined Taste'
- 'Gaslight'
- 'Just Because My Teeth Are Pearly'
- 'Message Bottle'
- 'Remember When People Were Tortured'
- 'See Emily Play'
- 'She Said Bread Fred'
- 'The Moon Upoon the Waters'
- 'The Vane'
- 'There are Forty Seven Pictures'
- 'Who is Hannibal's Descendant'
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