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Jo Burns & Emily Cooper – The Conversation
12. September um 19:00
THE CONVERSATION is a collaborative poetry collection by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper which imagines a conversation held between Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot, three of Picasso’s lovers and subjects. More often than not these figures were not named, but titled by their actions: weeping, reading, reclining. What Picasso wilfully obscured was the women behind these paintings: their lives and works, their relationships with him, their children and careers that were indelibly marked by their connection to a man considered to be one of the greatest artists of all time. At a recent exhibition of Dora Maar’s work, a painting that depicts a conversation between Maar and fellow Picasso lover/muse Marie-Thérèse Walter was hung in the room leading on to her photographic documentation of Guernica. This placement was not accidental; Maar and Walter famously came to blows in front of the work-in-progress in Picasso’s studio. This painting of two women whispering over their shoulders to each other is the inspiration behind The Conversation. One link to Bremen is the poem based around Sylvette David, the iconic blonde model with the fringe and the ponytail who visited the city when she was the subject of an exhibition here ten years ago.
Jo Burns was born in County Derry but now lives in Germany. She is a fluent German speaker and a university lecturer. The author of Circling for Gods (Eyewear Publishing), White Horses and Brink (both Turas Press), Jo has also been published in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, London Magazine, Magma, Acumen and The Stinging Fly. She has won several Poetry Society Members Poems competitions, as well as the Magma Poetry Competition, The Listowel Poetry Prize, The Poetry Society UK Hamish Canham Poetry Prize and others. She has read at The Belfast Book Festival; The Heaney Homeplace; Keats House London; The Irish Writers Centre, Dublin and the Hamburg Westwords Irish Literary Festival and elsewhere.
Emily Cooper is a poet and writer based in Donegal. Her poetry and prose has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Winter Papers and London Magazine, among others. Her poetry debut, Glass, was published by Makina Books in 2021. She is also co-founder and an editor for The Pig’s Back literary journal. Emily has read at – among others – the Bray Literature Festival; Blue Stacks Festival; West Cork Literary Festival; London Irish Centre; Belfast Book Festival; and the International Literature Festival Dublin.
Moderation / Chair: Ian Watson
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt / The event will be held in English.
This reading is supported by Zeitgeist Irland 24, Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany.
Mehr Infos: www.literaturmagazin-bremen.de/jo-burns-emily-cooper-the-conversation
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