CAESURA #2 will see Martin Belk grace the stage, giving our ears a verbal slap and tickle with a monologue. Martin is an author, editor of ONE Magazine, collaborator with the mighty John Calder – publisher of Burroughs, Beckett, Trocchi and many, many incredible writers, including 17 Nobel Prize winners – and associate of the Prague Writers’ Festival. This year’s festival ran from the 14th – 18th and featured Emil Hakl, author of the great ‘Of Kids and Parents’ (I’m convinced when I bought this book the title was ‘Of Sons and Fathers’, an updated translation or the ineptitude of my memory parading about in public again?) and Pulitzer prize winner Junot Diaz, who can be see in conversation with Martin Belk below:

PWF 2012: Martin Belk and Junot Diaz

CAESURA #2: April 26th 8pm Café Renroc – entry by donation

With CAESURA #2 less than a week away lets revisit the inaugural event and get all that nostalgia oot the way wi some videos courtesy of Conscious Route…

Conscious Route ‘Philosophy Baseline’

Graeme Smith ‘fʌk’

CAESURA #2

@ Renroc Café, 91 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh

26th April 2012 – entry by donation

Low-key letterbombing with the WORD in its many forms from an eclectic range of performers including…

MARTIN BELK
Monologist and author of “Pretty Broken Punks: lipstick, leather jeans, a death of New York” out June 1st
www.new-york-is-dead.com

BLASFIMA SINNA
MC, DJ and wordsmith Blasfima Sinna representing U-sonics and Sons of Scotland/C.C.P
http://uturn.bampcamp.com/

MATT MACDONALD
Matt Macdonald is a poet who scrutinises the everyday to make flowers out of sadness, murals out of happiness and poetry out of life.
http://lastmanstanzaing.wordpress.com/

+ more TBC

hosted by GRAEME SMITH

CAESURA #1

@ Renroc Café, 91 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh

23rd March 2012

A night of eclectic, incendiary & experimental voices: poetry, spoken word & straight-up jive.

CONSCIOUS ROUTE
Rapper, poet, singer and song writer born in London, grew up near Cambridge before moving to Edinburgh where he is now based. Conscious Route is a man of many means you can catch him living up the area with his live band or moonlighting on various solo and collaborative projects with CCF collective. Recently put out 2 E.p with Werd from S.O.S. This dude will not be pigeon-holed: expect the unexpected poetry ryhme and maybe a rap at the time.
http://theconsciousrouteband1.bandcamp.com/album/see-no-hear-no-speak-no-evil

PETE McCONVILLE
Pete McConville can speak audibly. Usually from inside an iliop-the quickest exfoliant yet found.
http://www.myspace.com/iliop

LILA MATSUMOTO
Lila edits SCREE, a poetry & arts zine, and plays in The Douglas Firs.
http://screemagazine.wordpress.com/

GRAEME SMITH
Graeme Smith runs Goodnight Press and as little as possible: jive-poetics for the masses.
http://www.goodnightpress.com/

and more on the night…