Saturday 29 May 2010

19.00, Rich Mix Arts Centre, Venue 2, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA • Box office 020 7613 7498 • www.richmix.org.uk • Free admission

For the first of the Maintenant interview series readings, 3am magazine presents three of the most exciting and acerbic contemporary poets emerging from Romania since the millennium: Adrian Urmanov, Elena Vladareanu and Ruxandra Novac.

Challenging, caustic and resolute, their poetry retains the dark humour so prevalent under dictatorship with the utterly modern vernacular of a generation that has come to fruition post-1989. Attacks on misogyny, sexual repression, political idealism and linguistic correctness are interspersed with exactingly crafted free poetry, literary and resounding, distinct for its energy and image, and despite a textual tendency to the climactic, this reading will remain very much literary in style.

Performing as part of a national tour, this is a chance to see the brightest young talent from a distinct and vivid European poetical tradition.

Please see interviews with the three poets: Elena Vladareanu in 3am, Adrian Urmanov in Cadaverine and Ruxandra Novac in Pomegranate magazines respectively.

Selections of their work have recently been published by Cleaves Journal.