Steve Willey

Friday 28/01/2011
Location: C4CC, 16 Acton Street

Steve Willey presents Opera an Elegy: In the Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke wrote that 'Every angel is Terrifying'. In Opera an Elegy planets have replaced Rilke's angels: 'they are not angels they are rocks, forests of seeping stars'.

Steve Willey is a Collaborative Doctoral Student at Queen Mary University of London working on British Poetry and Performance 1960-2008: The Work of Bob Cobbing. As a poet he works collaboratively with composers and musicians, and he also co-runs the website openned.com and its associated reading series.

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