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Kim Morrissey
Writer-in-Residence
West Euston Time Bank
Purple Poets Project: 'Poetry For All'
HEAR
KIM READING POEMS FROM ATLAS 02:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS BY KIM MORRISSEY:
exploring poetic techniques
collective poems
translating poetry
writing poetic drama for children
how to plan a Poetry Festival or Conference
Purple Poets Cook!
Poetry on a Platter:
Recipes from the West Euston Time Bank Café
PROJECT:
ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and
museums
If he won
he won
if you won
it was only a game.
(from Batoche, Coteau Books, 1989)
"At first, the new Prairie poets were mostly
male, but in time a number of important women poets have appeared, including
Anne Campbell, Lorna Crozier, Leona Gom, Kim Morrissey and Anne Szumigalski.
"
The Canadian Encyclopedia
"Poetry in English"
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ |
Kim Morrissey is a poet, playwright, editor, researcher
and radio dramatist. All her books (poetry and plays) are taught at university
level; Batoche is also taught at secondary school level in Canada.
Her most recent stage play is Mrs Ruskin , produced by Theatre Metropolis
(Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, 2003).
Kim was a commissioned writer for BBC Radio 4's political satire comedy sketch
show WeekEnding (1994-1995, executive producer Gareth Edwards) which also
aired on the BBC World Service.
She researched and wrote This is My First Wife: a Hundred Years of James
Thurber (BBC Radio 4 documentary, Christmas 1994, producer Gareth Edwards)
and conceived and researched Rhymes With Orange a poetry pilot quiz
for Radio 4, taped at the Poetry Society, autumn 1996.
She has done readings and workshops at the Open University Summer School
in York and taught Play Analysis at Rose Bruford College for Drama (Sidcup,
England).
Kim gave a rare poetry reading at the launch of
Atlas 01, the Literary Magazine (edited by Sudeep Sen), Lauderdale
House, Highgate on June 8th 2006 and then again at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair,
on June 9th 2006. She read again at the launch of Atlas 02,
in 2007, at the Nehru Centre, with Rose Hacker in attendence.
writer-in-residence
Kim Morrissey
Imagine
Rose Dancing
(for Rose Hacker)
recorded 09.07.2008
at the Saison poetry Library
Also read at the London launch
of Atlas 02 (edited by Sudeep Sen)
with Rose as an invited guest
Nehru Centre, 14.07.2007
London
Imagine Rose Dancing:
Rose Hacker's Dance Performance in Bloomsbury
February 24, 2007
Imagine Rose dancing
white lace at her throat
dark dress falling shoulders
to floor
the lights catching stage dust
the slow curve of thin wrists
suspended
Rose dancing,
still turning heads
each breath that she takes
lemon-sweet
imagine Rose dancing
to one-hundred-and-one
imagine Rose dancing
and dance!
HEAR
KIM READING THIS POEM, AND OTHERS, ATLAS 02:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642
BOOKS:
Batoche
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1989)
Poem For Men Who Dream of Lolita
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1992)
five poems reprinted in Mythic Women/Real Women
(edited by Lizbeth Goodman, published by Faber,
Open University textbook, Women Studies)
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
(London: Nick Hern Books 1994)
Clever as Paint: the Rossettis in Love
(Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1998)
(distributed by Nick Hern Books in Europe)
Mrs Ruskin (forth-coming from Aark Arts Books)
CHILDREN'S PLAYS:
Raisins and Almonds
(adapted from the novel by Fredelle Maynard)
a play for Christmas
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
Snow White and the Three Dwarves
a play for Christmas
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
OTHER INTERNET SITES FEATURING
KIM MORRISSEY'S WORK:
Coteau Books in Schools (Secondary School Level)
Batoche Study Guide
http://www.cenlyt.com/Batoche/start.htm
(includes first nation lesson plan suitable for
secondary students by Wilma Riley)
Hypertext Poetry Workshop (London, England) Site
http://www.btinternet.com/~carpenter/home1.htm
University of Toronto 'Canadian Poets' Site
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/morrissey
Playwrights Guild of Canada Site
http://www.playwrightsguild.com/pgc/main.asp
The Comedy Collective
(UK)
HISTORY OF THE POETRY PROJECT
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Books and Plays By Kim Morrissey
Batoche |
Poems For Men Who Dream of Lolita |
Dora: A Case of Hysteria |
Clever as Paint:
The Rossettis in Love |
Mrs. Ruskin
(forthcoming from Aark Arts) |
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POETRY |
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PAST READINGS BY KIM
MORRISSEY
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DECEMBER 14 - 18, 2008
DELHI INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL
www.atlasaarkarts.net/dilf
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Kim Morrissey was one of twenty International writers
invited to read at the Delhi International literature Festival. The DILF
reading events were part of the wider month-long multi-arts multi-venue Delhi
International Arts Festival [DIAF] with events in India's capital city of
New Delhi and at the Neemrana Fort Palace in Rajasthan. During these days
writers are invited to read from their work, meet Indian writers, editors,
critics, publishers, and other international guest writers. In addition they
visited sites in the historic Mughal city of Delhi (and Rajasthan).
August 30, 2008
Copenhagen
(www.2020visions.dk)
Kim read at the 20/20 Visions Arts Festival
Kulturhus, Islands Brygge
Copenhagen
Dennmark
Kim
read at the digital book launch of
Atlas 02 at the Poetry Library
South Bank Centre, 5th Floor
Royal Festival Hall
July 9th 2008 at 8 p.m.
Guardian
Review of the launch of ATLAS 02
July 14, 2007 at the Nehru Centre
South Audley Street, London
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/aug/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview22
--perhaps the most heartfelt applause was for the British-based Canadian
writer Kim Morrissey. She had drawn attention to 101-year-old Rose Hacker
in the audience, a pioneering sex therapist in the 1930s (and still a feisty
columnist for the Camden New Journal) who inspired Morrissey earlier this
year to write the poem "Imagine Rose Dancing".- Nicholas Wroe
June 29th 2008
Pentameters Theatre
Kim read at the book launch of
DIVERS by the Poetry Workshop
(25th Anniversary Anthology)
(other readers included Jane Draycott,
Lesley Saunders, Sudeep Sen)
April 15th, 2008
London Book Fair
[Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. until late]
Thomas Haliburton evening
333 Club event sponsors:
Network Canada and London Book Fair
KIM MORRISSEY
[reading with: Annie Freud, Ashis Gupta, John Stiles,
Rebecca Bloom, Joey Comeau]
333 Fulham Road, London SW10 9Ql
http://www.networkcanada.org/
Thursday, February 15th 2007
poetry reading - Poetry in the House
Lauderdale House, Highgate, at 8 p.m.
(guests: Rose Hacker, Bernard Miller)
Kim gave a rare poetry reading at the launch of
Atlas 01, the Literary Magazine (edited by Sudeep Sen), Lauderdale
House, Highgate on June 8th 2006 and then again at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair,
on June 9th 2006. She read again at the launch of Atlas 02,
in 2007, at the Nehru Centre, with Rose Hacker in attendence.
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Our Workshop Facilitators:
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Our Time Bank Broker:
(as of August 2009, on maternity leave)
Shahanara Begum
Our Writer-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey
The Purple Poets meet
almost every Thursday at the Crypt
between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
(phone to confirm there is a session)
(0)20 7383 4922
The Purple Poets often co-produce projects
with the Third Age Project Drama Group,
and the TAP Workshop Leader Gary Kielty.
The West Euston Time Bank Purple Poets Poetry Workshop
was founded in 2005 and supported by, amongst others,
The Arts Council,The Carnegie Trust,
The Third Age Project, and the new economics foundation.
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