Thursday 4 March, 6-9pm
Ben Pimlot Lecture Theatre
Goldsmiths, University of London
Lewisham Way, New Cross,
London SE14 6NW
The book Bombing of Poems over Warsaw documents a public intervention during which 80 poems by contemporary Polish and Chilean poets were dropped from a helicopter over the Castle Square and The Old Town.
Warsaw is the fourth city after Santiago de Chile, Dubrovnik and Guernica where The Bombing of Poems has taken place. Professor John Hutnyk and Cristóbal Bianchi on behalf of Casagrande will introduce the book. The event will also feature the screening of a film documenting the intervention in Warsaw.
Drinks will be served.
… being launched 01/03/10 in London, reviews for your pleasure below…
Dalager’s empathy with his subject is fervent and he is a skilled writer , having accrued a distinguished reputation in Europe with five novels and a number of plays.
Michael Faber, The Guardian
How was it possible for Stig Dalager to write about the last years of the story of David in such a shocking and convincing way that one should think that this was written by Isaac B. Singer or one of the other Polish-Jewish geniuses?
Jewish Information Magazine
Dalager has written a shockingly relevant historical novel, a tautstory of international standing and appeal. A monument to our ownshame, at that time and now.
Politiken Newspaper, DenmarkReviews
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