News tag: Literature

13 March 2015

Sketches from the Poem Road (after Basho’s 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'), 2 March to 25 April 2015

This exhibition at Covent Garden’s Poetry Society Café, from 2 March to 25 April, is a collaborative show of drawings and poems by Isao Miura & Chris Beckett, exploring the legacy of Matsuo Basho’s masterpiece Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), its enduring power as a model of travel-writing, and the influence of haibun and haiku in British poetry today.

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27 June 2014

Koki Tanaka's Precarious Tasks #9: Reading Aloud

‘Koki Tanaka visualizes and reveals the multiple contexts latent in the most simple of everyday acts.’ Tanaka’s Precarious Tasks #9: 24 hrs Gathering is his response to his friend’s experience during the March 2011 earthquake. He aims to explore how individuals feel and react when being together for an entire twenty-four hours. What is the

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7 June 2013

Masashi Matsuie in conversation with Michael Emmerich at the London Review Bookshop on Friday 14 June at 7.00 p.m

Masashi Matsuie in conversation with Michael Emmerich at the London Review Bookshop on Friday 14 June at 7.00 p.m.  The London Review Bookshop’s World Literature event in June will focus on Japan, with author Masashi Matsuie in conversation with literary translator Michael Emmerich. They’ll be discussing Japanese book design, the literary and publishing world in

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