Poetry & Listening

Looking up to the top of a building with an arched window. Under the window is a sign which reads 'Workshop Theatre'.

Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025, 17:00 – 19:00
Location: Workshop Theatre
Cost: Free
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An evening of discussions and readings with acclaimed poets Michael Nardone (Montréal) and Steven Zultanski (Copenhagen) alongside writers from the postgraduate Kerning workshop group.

Join us at the Workshop Theatre for a special evening of conversations about contemporary poetry, cross-arts collaboration and editorial practice with two special guests: Montréal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone, and Copenhagen-based poet and essayist Steven Zultanski.

The discussions will be chaired by the experimental writing group, Kerning, whose membership comes from across the postgraduate community of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds.

After the conversation, members of the Kerning group will give readings of new work alongside Nardone and Zultanski.

This event is organised by JR Carpenter (School of English), the Kerning group, and Nick Thurston (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies), in collaboration with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. It has been made possible thanks to the generous support of both schools.

The event will be of particular interest to anyone interested in creative-critical writing and multi-disciplinary collaborations for page, performance or screen, and contemporary poetry.

Tickets are free but booking is essential for seating. All are welcome, always.

Biographies

Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. His recent and forthcoming works include a book of dialogues, Convivialities (2025), an edited collection on listening practices across the arts, Aural Poetics (2023), an ongoing collaboration with Dana Michel, Yellow Towel: A Score (2018–), and co-editorship of the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series with Nathan Brown. Beginning in 2024, he is a writer-in-residence at the SETI Institute.

Steven Zultanski is the author of ten books, including Help (2024), Relief (2021), On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (2018), Honestly (2018), and Bribery (2014). With the artist Ed Atkins, he co-wrote and co-directed Sorcerer (2022), a theatrical project which has been realised as a play, a film, and a book. Atkins and Zultanski's new feature film premieres at Tate Britain in spring 2025. He lives in Copenhagen.