Cambridge Poetry Festival

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]

Literature

References
  1. Blair-Underwood, Alison (2012). "Open account - A memoir: the Cambridge Poetry Festival". Blackbox Manifold, Issue 9: Peter Robinson at Sixty. Blackbox Manifold. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  2. Richard Berengarten, 'The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1975' Archived 2012-05-25 at Archive.today .
  3. John Pilling, Review: The Cambridge Poetry Festival 1979 Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Florida State University, USA.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. PN Review 46 November - December 1985, http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?toc=2;volume=12


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