The Northern Charter
5th Floor
Commercial Union House
39 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle, NE1 6QE

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Project Space open during events only

Wednesday
May 20th
7.30pm

RIVET VI: with Rob Halpern, Sophie Robinson, & Lauren Vevers.

RIVET. presents an evening of poetry and performance, with a cross-atlantic visitor!

ROB HALPERN
'Halpern was as fearless as they came in 2012. His stunning third collection was both statement and experiment - a gruesome, erotic, studied, unflinching dissection of the ways that violence, sex, and social order tear at each other. Halpern uses the body as a battleground, and the solider as a stand-in for a range of repressed (and fulfilled) desires.'

"Being my body where yr odor clings I hang
In excess of the system where we're caught"

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SOPHIE ROBINSON
Author of 'The Institute of our Love in Disrepair', former poet in residence at the V&A, lecturer at UEA, pedagogue, & organiser of poetry nite 'FEELINGS' in East London.

"o bum! o joy! o bloated world!
what dreams i am on the stairs of!"

+ LAUREN VEVERS
http://www.thebellinijar.com/

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£4 otd.
7.30p