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Huge thanks to all those that came along to the Poetry Cafe on Monday 1st September to celebrate and share the work of Kathy Acker.
Performed by Jennifer Jackson, Simon Carroll-Jones & Kimberley Wintle
"Whether a reminder is needed or you are coming to her writing for the first time, the readings of the Kathy Acker Mobile Library cannot help but recall Acker's shameless, provocative energy and what has been missing since her death in 1997 [...] What seems at first sighting to be an old motivation, to shock or disgust her audience, reveals itself to be something different, something new and brave: a vow not to be shocked, not to be disgusted, whatever we turn up in our explorations. Can we make that promise ourselves? When Risking Enchantment bring Acker's language home to the present tense, it drives us into those risks and responsibilities. Any return home of Acker's work is un-nostalgic. It is the coming anew to a state of infancy, to our own fierce potentiality and our first, devastating reckoning with language. A chance to start again from there, in the name of love." Nick Campbell, www.leaf-pile.blogspot.com
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