Arts Council England and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of The Shipwrecked House by Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien.
Finaula Dowling and Koleka Putuma will be joining Trévien on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 for a reading and discussion of poetry. The event starts at 5:30 for 6 PM and refreshments will be served.
The Shipwrecked House is the first collection of poetry by Trévien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound with anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abounding. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2013 and praised for being “playful and surreal”.
See you there!
Event Details
- Date: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
- Time: 5:30 PM for 6 PM
- Venue: The Book Lounge
71 Roeland Street
Corner of Buitenkant and Roeland Street
Cape Town | Map - Readings by: Finuala Dowling and Koleka Putuma
- Refreshments will be served
- RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com, 021 462 2425
About the book
Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound.
Trévien’s is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and – like the sea itself – constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; one woman turns into a snake, another gives birth to a tree; a glow-worm might be a wasp or ‘a toy on standby’. Struck through with brilliant and sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of Pan’s Labyrinth or an Angela Carter novel, The Shipwrecked House is a unique and hallucinatory debut from a poet-to-watch.
About the poet
Claire Trévien was born in Brittany. Her pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery was published by Salt in 2011. She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews and the co-organiser of Penning Perfumes, a creative collaboration between poets and perfumers.
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Book Details
- The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trevien
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EAN: 9781908058119
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