Writers Kingston event #61 :
Cassette and Audio Literature
February 21st 2023 - Town House Building : Courtyard. Kingston University
With readings from Amy Cutler, Vik Shirley, Stephen Emmerson, SJ Fowler, David Spittle and Daniel Bryden, Agnese Graudina, Chris Kerr, Cameron Wade, Stanimir Dimitrov and Simon Tyrrell.
The cassette as an object of oral literature, the cassette as a sculpture that housed possibility, the cassette as a capsule of film and music - more than just a retro memory, this event seeks to ask questions with strange answers about the idea of a nearly lost technology. Bringing together poets, writers, musicians and performers, each responding to the theme in ambiguous and experimental ways, this event reaffirms the pleasure of a spool and a click. As part of the event, two new cassettes with be launched by 8OX press - a repository for the poem-objects, Stephen Emmerson’s ‘Music for Meditation’ and SJ Fowler’s ‘Bab’s London Adventures : Talk Poems.’
