Website review: Trevor Joyce: Whats in Store
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Hapax discovered 5 months ago- what's in store now in store Should anyone east of the Atlantic want to buy a copy of my latest blockbuster, it's possible to do so online now via this page. Or, of course, you could always wait until the movie comes out . . . and There will be a Dublin launch of the book Wednesday, 12th March Venue: Unitarian Church, 112 St Stephen's Green West, D2 Time: 6.30pm (admission free) with myself reading, and music from: Marja Tuhkanen - baroque violin and viola Aira Maria Lehtipuu - baroque violin Sarah Groser - viola da gamba Marja Tuhkanen is a Finnish, Cork-based jack-of-all-trades. She's a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, founder member of Cork's only Early Music group, Beyond the Pale, and of the World Music band, The Polskadots. She also works with bands and artists such as Adrian Crowley, Glen Hansard and Interference. Aira Maria Lehtipuu is one of the leading Baroque violinists of Finland. About to finish her Master's degree at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, she performs regularly with the most distinguished international Early Music groups around the world.She is also a specialist in Finnish folk music. Sarah Groser is an English viol player based in Glengarriff, West Cork. She works with the leading Baroque groups and viol bands, and has performed and recorded with groups such as Rose Consort of Viols and Sonnerie. These three musicians will perform three-part consort music from the 16th and 17th centuries rarely heard in Ireland, with tunes by Geminiani (an Italian Baroque composer who lived in Dublin) as well as their own arrangements of Finno-Ugric folk music and old Irish airs. . . . . . and of course you could always make a night of it by heading off afterwards to hear Marja playing (fiddle, bass guitar and much else, no doubt) with Adrian Crowley and support band Clarence Black, Upstairs at Whelan's, Wexford St., Dublin 2 . . . Marja playing a gig with the Polskadots at The Roundy House, Cork, last month Steven Vincent [11 Oct 07]: Trevor Joyce - Fergal Gaynor - Marja (the Finnish Baroque Fiddler) dropped down with a big succcess in the Maude Fife Room at UC Berkeley last night. If you are anywhere in the vicinity, I suggest catching them. During Trevor Joyce's astonishing rockhard lyric roll-through of probably the most strictly compressed verse of which, at least, I am familiar, I began wishing there he could do a back to back reading with Seamus Heaney. Top off that combination with the inclusion of Tom Raworth and/or Peter Manson, and the constrasts, as some might say, would be quite instructive. For those unfamiliar with Trevor's work, he uses the cell structure of Excel, and other such software, to create very tight poetic forms of severely isolate combinations and sequences of words. Content and what is 'felt' is constantly contested by the structure to create a finely toned weaving of "text tiles" (the 'tiles' are the individual words that are made to fit into each pre-fixed cell). All of which might sound like formal hokey-pokey, but Trevor as not a poet dummy, brings in terrific goods. I was sitting next to Lyn Hejinian and Jean Day - the three of us practically on the edge of our seats, listening. Same team in Dublin, with some extra, so catch us then . . .
- frenchtwist rated 5 months ago
- What's in Store by Trevor Joyce If you haven't yet read the poetry of Trevor Joyce, alias Hapax, I strongly encourage you to do so. His words are clear and elegant. I very much look forward to reading his newest book of collected works, What's in Store. "In a language of chiselled lucidity and deceptive simplicity, Joyce steps through a dazzling range of forms and discursive modes, from translations of folk poetry to the languages of bureaucracy and cult. And through it all, the lyric swerve and shear persists and sings. What's in Store demonstrates conclusively what many have long known: Trevor Joyce is one of a small handful of really significant poets writing from Ireland today." -- David Lloyd
