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The Other Room 28

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Phil Hall, Vanessa Place & Alan Halsey and Mick Beck performing poems by Hugo Ball.

Vanessa Place writes poetry, prose and art criticism; she is also a criminal lawyer and co-director of Les Figues Press. Her most recent work is available in French as Exposé des Faits, and in English as Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument (Blanc Press 2010-2011). A work of non-fiction, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law, was published by Other Press in 2010 and Notes on Conceptualisms, with Robert M. Fitterman, by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2009. A full bibliography is at EPC.

Phil Hall is a Canadian poet whose work has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2006) & the Governor General's Award (2001). His first small (dreadful) book was published in Mexico City in 1973. Among his many titles are Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992), & Hearthedral – A Folk-Hermetic (1996). In the early 80s, Phil was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union, & the Vancouver Men Against Rape Collective. He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere. He has been poet-in-residence at Sage Hill Writing Experience (Saskatchewan), The Pierre Berton House (Dawson City, Yukon), & elsewhere. In 2007, BookThug published Phil’s long poem, White Porcupine. Also in 2007. He and his wife, Ann, walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. His most recent books of poems are The Little Seamstress (2010) & Killdeer (2011). Recently, Phil has been hiking & reading & meeting poets in Australia. He currently offers a manuscript mentoring service for the Toronto New School of Writing. Over the years, he has collected two decks of playing cards from single random cards found on the streets. He is an amateur banjo player, & a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada. He lives near Perth, Ontario.

Alan Halsey & Mick Beck will perform their arrangements of the sound poems Hugo Ball wrote for the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. In all his work Halsey's 'strategy is to subvert our expectations of poetry, to make us look at the moon from the dark side' (Ian Seed). Beck's uninhibited versatile tenor sax and his pioneering work with the under-used bassoon (his solo album Life Echoes on the Discus label gives both instruments a run for their money) add a startling emotional dimension to Ball's 'verse without words'.

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Entry: Free

Time: 7:00pm

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