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Medbh McGuckian Poetry Reading
U Luzickeho seminare 10 (9.4.2013)
Reading starts at 7:00PM
One of the most original voices of her generation, Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast where she lives with her family. Her work is marked by intense lyricism and engagement with issues of womanhood and nationalist politics – she writes beautifully of love, motherhood and landscape, but never loses sight of the wider, troubling issues of Ireland, especially its tradition of revolution and martyrdom. Her poetic voice seduces and leads the listener astray into new territories.
Medbh McGuckian is the author of over a dozen collections of poetry, most recently My Love Has Fared Inland (2008). Her Selected Poems 1978-1994 was published in 1997. Among the prizes she has won are the British National Poetry Competition, the Cheltenham Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Rooney Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University and at the University of Ulster; Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; and Writer-Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
The reading will take place at the Shakespeare and Sons bookshop (U lužického semináře 10, Praha 1) on Tuesday 9 April at 19:00. Poems will be read in the English original and in a new Czech translation provided for the occasion. A complimentary glass of wine to follow.
The event is part of the Irish Itinerary project of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. It is supported by Culture Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, and the Embassy of Ireland to the Czech Republic.
What do you mean, I am rapid,
Flying on breathways? No one
Really dreams any more, the bread
Of the dream, the haste of the dream,
Yet anyone who awakes has overslept
The look of night, grass
Written asunder.
(from "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian)
One of the most original voices of her generation, Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast where she lives with her family. Her work is marked by intense lyricism and engagement with issues of womanhood and nationalist politics – she writes beautifully of love, motherhood and landscape, but never loses sight of the wider, troubling issues of Ireland, especially its tradition of revolution and martyrdom. Her poetic voice seduces and leads the listener astray into new territories.
Medbh McGuckian is the author of over a dozen collections of poetry, most recently My Love Has Fared Inland (2008). Her Selected Poems 1978-1994 was published in 1997. Among the prizes she has won are the British National Poetry Competition, the Cheltenham Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Rooney Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University and at the University of Ulster; Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; and Writer-Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
The reading will take place at the Shakespeare and Sons bookshop (U lužického semináře 10, Praha 1) on Tuesday 9 April at 19:00. Poems will be read in the English original and in a new Czech translation provided for the occasion. A complimentary glass of wine to follow.
The event is part of the Irish Itinerary project of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. It is supported by Culture Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, and the Embassy of Ireland to the Czech Republic.
What do you mean, I am rapid,
Flying on breathways? No one
Really dreams any more, the bread
Of the dream, the haste of the dream,
Yet anyone who awakes has overslept
The look of night, grass
Written asunder.
(from "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian)
Mark Beyer Reading & Book Launch Party
U Lužického semináře 10 (15.6.2012)
Mark Beyer will read from his new book: WHAT BEAUTY
Reading starts at 7:00PM
Siren and Muse Publishing announced today the upcoming publication of What Beauty, the new novel by Mark Beyer. What Beauty will be released in print and ebook formats simultaneously in June, 2012.
Mark Beyer is the author of The Village Wit, which has in circulation thousands of copies, including coverage across the European market of English-language literary fiction. As a small press publisher, Siren and Muse is pleased with these numbers.
Building on the tradition of The Village Wit, a novel about a complicated relationship between an American bookstore owner in the English Cotswolds who falls in love with his employee, with disastrous results, Beyer again writes with elegant prose, humor and passion about relationships, art, love, eccentrics, and culture.
What Beauty is the story of Minus Orth, 31, who walks dogs for a living and sculpts for his life. He’s ready to create a unique sculpture cycle — Mythical Gods in Their Twilight. Meanwhile, he has a girlfriend, Belinda, who’s itching to get married. His friend, Peter N, has gained artistic success that’s both inspirational and a thorn. He plays poker with a quartet of exiled aristocrats. And, at Minus’s art co-op, the residents live on the fringe of society. One day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek. Best remembered as a culture critic of the 1960s, Karen dropped out of sight years ago. Now she is a bag lady — ragged clothes, a garbage smell, and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to the good life. Or perhaps she is only dressed as a bag lady. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen, and discovers a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but is burrowed deeper in society’s crust than anyone could imagine. Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen’s past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, with the role artists play in society’s split personality, with human faces and aging and death — and obsessed with believing in himself.
Reading starts at 7:00PM
Siren and Muse Publishing announced today the upcoming publication of What Beauty, the new novel by Mark Beyer. What Beauty will be released in print and ebook formats simultaneously in June, 2012.
Mark Beyer is the author of The Village Wit, which has in circulation thousands of copies, including coverage across the European market of English-language literary fiction. As a small press publisher, Siren and Muse is pleased with these numbers.
Building on the tradition of The Village Wit, a novel about a complicated relationship between an American bookstore owner in the English Cotswolds who falls in love with his employee, with disastrous results, Beyer again writes with elegant prose, humor and passion about relationships, art, love, eccentrics, and culture.
What Beauty is the story of Minus Orth, 31, who walks dogs for a living and sculpts for his life. He’s ready to create a unique sculpture cycle — Mythical Gods in Their Twilight. Meanwhile, he has a girlfriend, Belinda, who’s itching to get married. His friend, Peter N, has gained artistic success that’s both inspirational and a thorn. He plays poker with a quartet of exiled aristocrats. And, at Minus’s art co-op, the residents live on the fringe of society. One day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek. Best remembered as a culture critic of the 1960s, Karen dropped out of sight years ago. Now she is a bag lady — ragged clothes, a garbage smell, and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to the good life. Or perhaps she is only dressed as a bag lady. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen, and discovers a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but is burrowed deeper in society’s crust than anyone could imagine. Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen’s past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, with the role artists play in society’s split personality, with human faces and aging and death — and obsessed with believing in himself.
Lucien Zell Reading
U Lužického semináře 10 (24.5.2012)
Lucien Zell will read from his new book: INVISIBLE BARS
Reading starts at 7:00PM
Invisible Bars opens as JT Henderson returns to New Orleans after six decades on the road. A connoisseur of life, word and drink, he glides into the nearest bar and meets two strangers who ask him about his travels. This sets Henderson off on a verbal journey back to the many astonishing bars he visited—or claims he visited—from Amsterdamaged, which only the ‘damaged’ can enter, to The Tele, where a psychic waitress tells you what drinks you will be ordering before you order them, to drunken interludes in a shark-cage, a war-zone, Edgar Allan Poe’s tomb and the Buddha Bar in a Himalayan cave. It’s a journey through incredulity to the conclusion that these bars should exist... even if they don’t.
Hailed by The Prague Post as a '21st Century Troubadour', Lucien Zell's writing has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Liberal, Café Irreal, Frogpond, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. Born in California and raised in Seattle, Zell's spent his entire adult life wandering the world. Prague’s Dharmagaia has published four collections of his poetry. Zell performs regularly with his band, The Wavemen, in concerts, music festivals, and of course, bars (usually, at least at the beginning of the night, visible ones). As a songwriter, his compositions have been recorded by European artists and released by Sony and Warner Music. John Calder, the acclaimed first publisher of Samuel Beckett and several Nobel prize-winners, said:
"…Lucien Zell's writing is highly original and invokes no obvious influence or origin that one can think of elsewhere. Sharp phrases each carry a single image or impression, each different as if from a dream or sudden revelation. Often the visual or emotional impression invoked goes off in a surprising direction. Surprise is perhaps the key word to describe the reader's reaction when reading his work…"
Reading starts at 7:00PM
Invisible Bars opens as JT Henderson returns to New Orleans after six decades on the road. A connoisseur of life, word and drink, he glides into the nearest bar and meets two strangers who ask him about his travels. This sets Henderson off on a verbal journey back to the many astonishing bars he visited—or claims he visited—from Amsterdamaged, which only the ‘damaged’ can enter, to The Tele, where a psychic waitress tells you what drinks you will be ordering before you order them, to drunken interludes in a shark-cage, a war-zone, Edgar Allan Poe’s tomb and the Buddha Bar in a Himalayan cave. It’s a journey through incredulity to the conclusion that these bars should exist... even if they don’t.
Hailed by The Prague Post as a '21st Century Troubadour', Lucien Zell's writing has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Liberal, Café Irreal, Frogpond, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. Born in California and raised in Seattle, Zell's spent his entire adult life wandering the world. Prague’s Dharmagaia has published four collections of his poetry. Zell performs regularly with his band, The Wavemen, in concerts, music festivals, and of course, bars (usually, at least at the beginning of the night, visible ones). As a songwriter, his compositions have been recorded by European artists and released by Sony and Warner Music. John Calder, the acclaimed first publisher of Samuel Beckett and several Nobel prize-winners, said:
"…Lucien Zell's writing is highly original and invokes no obvious influence or origin that one can think of elsewhere. Sharp phrases each carry a single image or impression, each different as if from a dream or sudden revelation. Often the visual or emotional impression invoked goes off in a surprising direction. Surprise is perhaps the key word to describe the reader's reaction when reading his work…"
UK legend of visionary poetry-AAD
U Lužického semináře 10 (8.7.2011)
Expect a deep Blakean experience from AAD's poems set to his own music. What's more-Aidan will also be reading from his brand new, cutting-edge, we dare say shocking verse novel!
Details to be revealed at the gig...
FREE ENTRY- please invite other bohemian souls to share this special event. Important: This is Dun's one-off performance in Prague-not to be missed!
Details to be revealed at the gig...
FREE ENTRY- please invite other bohemian souls to share this special event. Important: This is Dun's one-off performance in Prague-not to be missed!
Poezie Suteren
Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 - Vrsovice (1.4.2010)
Reading starts at 8:00PM
Poezie Suterén is a regular forum for poetic research and new writing in English and Czech.
This week, 1 April: ANNE BRECHIN
Meeting each Thursday, 20:00 Back room of Shakespeare & Sons
Poezie Suterén is a regular forum for poetic research and new writing in English and Czech.
This week, 1 April: ANNE BRECHIN
Meeting each Thursday, 20:00 Back room of Shakespeare & Sons
Film Nights
Shakespeare and Sons Cafe (7.3.2010)
The back room in the Vrsovice cafe is now our little cinema. We project twice weekly. Every Monday is Team Veggie Parade document night and Sunday nights our dedicated to movies we all would like to see. 20:00 at Krymska 12.
All films that are not english-language will be titled in English.
Entry is free, all are welcome.
See the Shakes Movie facebook group, Team Veggie Parade or Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore and Cafe facebook site for a complete schedule.
All films that are not english-language will be titled in English.
Entry is free, all are welcome.
See the Shakes Movie facebook group, Team Veggie Parade or Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore and Cafe facebook site for a complete schedule.
Transit
SHAKESgalerie (18.2.2010)
Exhibit from artist Thomas Gegner to be gracing the humble SHAKESgalerie from 18 February onward. The tunnel is being dug, through the frozen ground, Vienna to Praha, we will have to wait and see what comes out on our side of things.
see his work at: www.gegnergallery.com
The Prophet and the Bees
SHAKESgalerie (15.1.2010)
Latest exhibit in the SHAKESgalerie, the new space in the downstairs of our Mala Strana location. Featuring the latest work from artist Peter Le Couteur. Vernisaz 15 January at 19:30, all welcome. The work will be displayed until 15 February.
The Prophet and The Bees, a series of large mixed-media drawings and sculptures by Peter Le Couteur, is the second exhibit to be installed in the new downstairs gallery space at Shakespeare's, Malastrana.
Peter Le Couteur’s work investigates how we ‘read into’ images, transforming texture and landscape into text and nar...rative. Hidden clues, symbolic codes, and mythological and literary references fill these large, intricate drawings.