events at st. george's bookshop (berlin) this week
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TUESDAY 19TH JAN. 2010 - 21.00
FELICITAS EHLEN: DRAMATIC RECITATION OF POEMS BY EDGAR ALLEN POE
Bass & Cello accompaniement, interspersed with brief German-language
biographical notes (penned by Felicitas, read by a German dolcent
- a 90-minute, total immersion in the evocatoin of Poe's spirit.
At 21:00 on January 19, the 201st anniversary of Poe's Boston birth.
The dramatic classics, The Raven and more...
Free entrance, Cash bar
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WEDNESDAY 20TH JAN. 2010 - 20.30
ALISTAIR NOON & MONIKA RINCK Double Book Launch
Alistair Noon. In People's Park. Penumbra Editions, London. http://www.penumbramagazine.
Monika Rinck. Sixteen Poems. Translated by Alistair Noon. Barque Press,
London. http://www.barquepress.com/
Alistair Noon has lived in Berlin since the early nineties and has been a
key figure in the Anglophone literary scene in the city for several years,
co-editing the magazine Bordercrossing Berlin and founding the annual Poetry
Hearings festival. His second chapbook In People's Park is launched together
with the first appearance in book form in English of Monika Rinck, a poet
with a steadily growing reputation as quite possibly the best German poet of
her generation, with several books of poetry and essays from acclaimed
German publishers kookbooks.
"Alistair Noon's writing is characterised by a worldly intelligence,
striking verbal dexterity and a technical accomplishment by no means common
in today's poetry world. He is a writer to keep a eye on over the next few
years."
Peter Hughes, Oystercatcher Press
"Monika Rinck is to my mind the most interesting of the younger poets to
turn up after the millennium. A post-modernist, playful and artful at the
same time, her work settles down in her third collection into a solid body
of work with a clear direction---a direction that her second volume showed
developing. (her first, Begriffstudio, was a kind of exploration of
internet- and media-speak, with meanings deliberately hard to pin down).
Deeply impressive work here... One to look out for, I think. This lady is
the real thing."
Tony Frazer, Shearsman Books.
Free entrance, Cash bar
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Saint Georges English Bookshop
Wörther Strasse 27 - Prenzlauer Berg - 10405 Berlin - 030 81 798 333
Mon-Fri 11AM-8PM - Sat 11AM-7PM
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