Gilbert Adair co-founded the Sub-Voicive poetry reading series in London in 1980, & curated it from then until 1992; it quickly became one of the city’ s two leading venues—
& from somewhere in the mid-80s, only venue—for linguistically innovative poetry, featuring a pool of poets mainly from London, but also from elsewhere in England, &
when they were available, from Europe & the States. In 1982 he published signs of life, the first of (to date) fourteen books with a variety of small presses—sable smoke from
Veer (2010) being the latest. Related projects include the co-organizing with cris cheek of a celebration of Bob Cobbing’ s 70th birthday at the ICA in London; the founding
(with Cobbing, Jennifer Pike Cobbing, & Patricia Farrell) of the mid-80s New River Project (poets, painters, dancers, & musicians came to perform); & most recently, the
putting together of a forum on relations between poetry & science, featuring ten poets from England & America, for the online poetics magazine Jacket2. He has given readings in London, Singapore, & New York, & taught university-level courses in language & literature in the same cities. He currently teaches for the University of Hawai‘ i system on the island of Kaua‘ i.
Complete reading in mp3: http://abmp3.com/mp3/gilbert-adair-complete-reading.html
