Literary festival in Cambridge, England
The Cambridge Poetry Festival , founded by Richard Berengarten (also known as Richard Burns), was an international biennale for poetry held in Cambridge , England, between 1975–1985.[ 1]
The festival was founded in an attempt to combine as many aspects as possible of this form of art.[ 2] Thus Michael Hamburger could, for example, recite his English interpretations of Paul Celan 's poetry in the presence of Gisèle Lestrange and a surprisingly large audience at an art gallery bestowed on her engravings.[ 3] [ 4] The last biennale in 1985 included a number of events to mark Ezra Pound 's centenary, including the exhibition Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy at Kettle's Yard (later also shown at the Tate Gallery )[ 5] and was accompanied by a special issue of the magazine PN Review .[ 6]
The festival will be revived for its 50th anniversary in June 2025.
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Blair-Underwood, Alison (2012). "Open account - A memoir: the Cambridge Poetry Festival" . Blackbox Manifold, Issue 9: Peter Robinson at Sixty . Blackbox Manifold. Retrieved 7 January 2013 .
^ Richard Berengarten, 'The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1975' Archived 2012-05-25 at archive.today .
^ John Pilling, Review: The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1979 Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine , Florida State University , USA.
^ For another reminiscence of the 1979 festival, see Waldrop, Rosmarie (2002). Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès . Wesleyan University Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-8195-6580-6 .
^ Richard Humphreys (editor), Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy , London (Tate Gallery), June 1985, ISBN 0-946590-29-X
^ PN Review 46 November - December 1985, http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?toc=2;volume=12