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Australian poet Robert Gray in Utrecht 11/06/2008
wednesday, June 11th, 20.00 AAMU, Museum voor hedendaagse Aboriginal kunst auditorium Oudegracht 176 030 2380100 reserve at info@slau.nl or get them from now on directly at the AAMU - entr้e 7,50/5,00
The Australian poet Robert Gray is in Holland for Poetry International (7-13th of June, Rotterdam; http://2008.poetry.nl/) and on June 11th will be a guest of SLAU. Gray, alongside Les Murray, is the most significant living poet in Australian. He possesses a phenomenal ability to invoke sensual and visual images in the reader and is considered to be one of the most innovative poets in the English language.
In September 2007, Uitgeverij Meulenhoff published a large cross section of Gray`s work in a bilingual collection Grasschrift, translated and commented on by the Utrecht translator Maarten Elzinga.
Grasschrift, will be available for purchase (22,50) at this reading and there will be signing session by Robert Gray.
Parallel to Robert Gray reading his own work (and he`s a wonderful performer), Maarten Elzinga will be interviewing him and reading some of his translations.
Opening for Robert Gray will be wordsinhere, an international writer`s organization, based in the Netherlands they will launch the sixth edition of their independent publication Versal. Versal 6 is a collection of writing and art from the exiled, the expatriate, the immigrant and the translated on both literal as well as figurative axes.
The launch of Versal 6, will be presented by it`s editor Megan Garr (US) and will include performances from contributors Rozalie Hirs (NL), Jennifer Arcuni (US), Julian Stannard (UK) and Versal fiction editor Robert Glick (US).
My mother all of ninety has to be tied up
in her wheelchair, but still she leans far out of it sideways;
she juts there brokenly,
able to cut
with the sight of her someone who is close. She is hung
like her hanging mouth
in the dignity
of her bleariness, and says that she is
perfectly all right.
(Robert Gray, fragment from `In departing light`/2002)
At the end of the program everyone is welcome to stay for drinks with the poets.
On the evening before the show, the Aboriginal Art Museum invites you to visit the exhibit, `Nomads in Art`, where desert paintings of Aboriginal artists can be viewed interspersed between the work of the renowned Belgian artist, Marcel Broodthaers.
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