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Contemporary Experimental Women's
Poetry Festival

The Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival was held at Cambridge University from 6-8 October 2006 and organised by Emily Critchley with help from Catherine Brown. Readers include Tim Atkins, Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady, Coupons Coupons, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Kathleen Fraser, Susana Gardner, Carol Mirakove, Geraldine Monk, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Maggie O'Sullivan, Camille PB, Tom Raworth, Lisa Samuels, Kaia Sand, Leslie Scalapino, Susan Schultz, Catherine Wagner, and Africa Wayne.

Read Emily Critchley's introduction to the festival here.

Tim Atkins

'Horace' 1

'Horace' 2

'Horace' 3

'Petrarch' 1

'Petrarch' 2

'Petrarch' 3

'Petrarch' 4

'Petrarch' 5

'Petrarch' 6

'Petrarch' 7

'Petrarch' 8

'Petrarch' 9

'Petrarch' 10

'Petrarch' 11

'Petrarch' 12

'Petrarch' 13

'Petrarch' 14

'Petrarch' 15

'Petrarch' 16

Caroline Bergvall

8 Figs: Fig. 1

8 Figs: Fig. 4

8 Figs: Fig. 7

Chaucer (1)

Chaucer (2)

Chaucher (3)

Chaucer (4)

'Fuses'

Andrea Brady

'Friendship'

from Wildfire:'Pyrotechne'

from Wildfire:'Thrown Fire'

from Wildfire: 'In Law'

from Wildfire:'Love's Fire'

from Wildfire:'Meat'

from Wildfire:'Alchemistry'

Coupons Coupons

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Kai Fierle-Hedrick

Motion Study: Still 17

Motion Study: Still 23

Motion Study: Still 24

'Pantoume'

'Pantoume' 2

Kathleen Fraser

'Discrete Categories'

Susana Gardner

'Of Rigorous Wanting and Song'

'To Stand to Sea'

'Were a Woman an Insel'

Carol Mirakove

'Mediated'

Geraldine Monk

'All My Seas Aren't Yours'

'All My Seas Aren't Yours' 2

'Escafeld Hangings' 1

'Escafeld Hangings' 2

'Escafeld Hangings' 3

'Escafeld Hangings' 4

'The Transparent Ones' 1

'The Transparent Ones' 2

'The Transparent Ones' 3

Marianne Morris

'A How-To List for Girls'

'A Proxy for More Protean Protest'

'But Really I Will Fear Growing Old'

'Cleaning Up in Beirut'

'Commedia dell'Arte'

Have I Got News For You'

'Lunch Hour Pops'

'Pop Music'

'Portrait of Stendhal Jerking Off'

'Your Eyes Are Sort of Pretty'

Wendy Mulford

'Chinese Postcard Sequence'

'I China Am'

'La Pitié Salpetrière

'Self and Self'

'The Bay of Naples' 1

'The Bay of Naples' 2

Redell Olsen

'London Landmarks'

'Punk Faun' 1

'Punk Faun' 2

Maggie O'Sullivan

'All Origins Are Lonely'

'Murmur'

'Untitled (quaq edge ear lone)'

Camille PB

'A Little Story'

Tom Raworth

'A More Refined Taste'

Fourteen Line Pieces 1

Fourteen Line Pieces 2

'Gaslight'

'Just Because My Teeth Are Pearly'

'Message Bottle'

'Remember When People Were Tortured'

'She Said Bread Fred'

'The Moon Upoon the Waters'

'There are Forty Seven Pictures'

'The Vane'

'Who is Hannibal's Descendant'

'See Emily Play'

Lisa Samuels

'Anacoluthon'

'Guantanamo'

'Increment'

'Maze'

'Social Sculpture'

'The Invention of Culture' 1

'The Invention of Culture' 2

'The Invention of Culture' 3

'The Rack of Consent'

Kaia Sand

'Best Regards'

'Family Album' 1

'Family Album' 2

'Lotto'

'The President Probably Talks'

Leslie Scalapino

'Day Ocean State of Stars Night'

'Delay Rose'

Susan Schultz

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 1

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 2

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 3

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 4

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 5

'Memory Cards and Adoption Papers' 6

'Portraits Parables' 1

'Portraits Parables' 2

Catherine Wagner

'Everyone in the Room'

'Macular Hole' 1

'Macular Hole' 2

'My New Job'

'Song'

Africa Wayne

'Ceiling'

'Tiny Pony'

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