FTHo

Poetry is not often taken for an event. Tonight's reading will eschew the clinking of glasses, the shuffling of feet, the stifling of coughs. We will attempt something different. Tonight's readers will be everyone in attendance. What we will read is an half sifted mass of poetic history, from the Gawain poet to Tzara, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to the last word in up-to-date avant-gardisme, all cut up and rising in a twister into whatever we choose to make of it. Recall that 'what will survive of us is/ the elliptical fires on the pre-Socratics.' Many voices will be amplified in turn. 

Robbie Ellen is a writer presently resident in London. His critical essay on capitalist social relations in Tino Sehgal can be read at Metamute. 

Danny Hayward is a poet and academic working towards a PhD at Birkbeck. His research focuses on the relationship between capitalism and commitment in eighteenth-century English art and philosophy.