Archive of the Now

Saturday 5 May 2007
7.30pm, The Poetry Café
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX

Adm. £5/4 cons.

La langoustine est morte: The only night in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 7th instalment of the series. This month we feature one of our strongest line-ups yet, a thrilling fusion of abstract poetics, risqué fictions, spiritual songs and ambient mischief with:

Amy Prior - fiction/performance
Steve Willey - poetry
Perciphone Petticoat - poetry/performance
Musadiq Sanwal - spirit songs
Hosted by Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph

These events are usually sold out so arrive early to book a seat!

For more info: www.myspace.com/langoustine
E mail: lalangoustine@gmail.com

STEVE WILLEY

Steve Willey is a London poet, studying for an MA in Poetic Practice . He is co-founder of the poetry reading series Openned and co-runs the Openned Press. He has self-published two books,'Midnight : Shrapnel: Debris:' and'Waves: histories of the Kusk'. His work often dwells on the fractured intersections between history, space, and event and has more recently developed an entirely unhealthy, yet entirely welcome, relationship to Walter Benjamin, and digital projectors. All of his poetry projects may be found on the Openned website.

AMY PRIOR
Amy Prior is a London-based writer. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals and book collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Amy skirted the fringes of fanzine culture around the music scene, eventually editing and contributing writing to critically acclaimed short fiction anthologies for Serpent's Tail (UK/US) and Avalon ( U.S.). In 2005, she toured the U.S. for her collection'Lost On Purpose', an international collection of city stories. She was recently commissioned by Tate Modern for'New Art, New Fiction', a project about fiction response to visual artworks - and her new fiction book'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' (2007) is available from gallery bookstores in London and the U.S. Amy is the recipient of an individual writers award for her short fiction from the Arts Council of England (2005). www.myspace.com/amyprior

MUSADIQ SANWAL

Hailing from Multan, Musadiq Sanwal is a visual and theatre artist by training and profession but his real passion is music. Mostly self taught he has spent years collecting poetry and folk tunes across Punjab and Sindh, accumulating a wide repertoire. In the Eastern tradition of the subcontinent, poetry and music have been inextricably linked. The works of Sufi poets such as Guru Nanak, Baba Farid and Kabir both of the Punjab and other areas were often'transmitted' via sadhus and fakirs. In this way, they were instruments of the mystical word. Musadiq is such a sadhu, not from pure the classical tradition of the courts but from the semi-classical tradition of Sufis and mandirs.He is also a co-founder of Matteela, a website for photography, music, film, art and literature based in Lahore and has worked on numerous films. www.myspace.com/buraqtakenbutwhy

PERCIPHONE PETTICOAT

Perciphone Petticoat aka Sazzarooo, poet, writer, singer songwriter and producer, is a fresh and entertaining face in the world of performance poetry. She has been writing and singing since early childhood and collaborates with other musicians to make ambient and peace enhancing sounds. From surreality to social dysfuntion - sexuality to empathy, fairytales to self harm, Perciphone Petticoat often flirts on a rather risque edge. However, pertinent subjects delivered graphically, are often skillfully tempered according to musicality and backing sounds: allowing ideas that would otherwise be unpallatable - to be considered. http://www.myspace.com/perciphone