LSE Language Centre event
Date: Wednesday 3 February 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Three Tuns Underground Bar
The early twentieth century Imagist poets took a radical new look at their daily life and urban surroundings especially, producing very short poems built on a single, vivid image. Perhaps the most famous of these is Ezra Pound’s In A Station of the Metro (1913).
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Taking this poem as a formal model, LSE students and staff are invited to submit on-line entries of their own short poems on the theme of change in the contemporary city. Entries will be broadcast on puLSE during January and February as well as on announcement screens across campus, the winners being announced at the open mic evening, where they will also be performed as part of a multi-media event.
The event, with complementary drinks, is hosted by the LSE Language Centre, Student Poetry Society and the MUSE Journal. It is free and open to all, with entry on a first come first served basis.
The entries should be submitted by the 29th of January to languages@lse.ac.uk with the subject marked CITY.
For any further questions and information about the event please contact Dr Olga Sobolev (O.Sobolev@lse.ac.uk) and Dr Angus Wrenn (A.J.Wrenn@lse.ac.uk).
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