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SUMMARY:The Waste Land | The Second Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Our aim at the end of these three sessions is to give us the tools actually to read this modernist poem.\nHow and why The Waste Land is (de)constructed.\nHow we link apparently fragmented lines through Eliot’s references\, the hypertexts. \nWe might not finish the wasteland entirely\, but you will however be ready to go forth\, brave adventurer…\nExpect a serious (and seriously playful) engagement with Eliot. \nTICKETS €5 for three lectures. PLEASE SIGN UP VIA LINK.\nCover charge is discounted against books! \n\n\nThe Second Lecture:\nThe Opening of The Waste Land\nGetting stuck in. \n\nNecessary Reading:\nThe Waste Land  \nRecommended Reading:\nChaucer\, Ventadorn\, Crashaw\, Whitman and Ovid\, Paul Verdenal \n\nBob Shepherd’s research focuses on the intertextual relationships between multilingual literatures\, particularly the poetry of T.S. Eliot. His current work explores Eliot’s poetic methods\, with particular emphasis on The Waste Land\, Prufrock and the fusion of dramatic monologue and lyric. Bob Shepherd currently teaches at UAM\, Madrid.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/the-waste-land-the-second-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261119T190000
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SUMMARY:The Fitzcarraldo Winter Party  Ben Eastham at el Café Gíjon
DESCRIPTION:The Floating World\nAT EL CAFÉ GIJÓN\n\nA book launch with Ben Eastham\nHosted by Skye Arundhati Thomas at Café Gijón\n\nA meditation on grief\, late capitalism and art in the face of imminent climate apocalypse\, The Floating World is thrilling repurposing of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel. \nSkye Arundhati Thomas will guide us through readings and a discussion about the novel and its art with author Ben Eastham. \n\n\n\n“The Floating World is fantastical\, its dialogue brilliantly funny\, but it is not an unserious book. The city is being built against a present-day backdrop of genocide\, inequality and corporate interest: its residents want to be sheltered from the crimes they have committed; the people building it fear they will not be allowed to remain once it is finished. In the face of this injustice\, the protagonist must also process the death of his wife and prepare for the next chapter of his life. As immaculately observed as the book’s satire is\, its grief is just as devastating\, its anger just as skilfully steered.” \n\n\n— Chris Allnutt\, Financial Times \n\n\n\n\nUna reflexión sobre el duelo\, el capitalismo tardío y el arte ante el inminente colapso climático\, The Floating World constituye una fascinante relectura y reapropiación de La invención de Morel\, de Adolfo Bioy Casares. \nSkye Arundhati Thomas nos guiará a través de una serie de lecturas y una conversación en torno a la novela y su dimensión artística\, junto a su autor\, Ben Eastham. \nEvento en Inglés.\n \n\nSkye Arundhati Thomas is a writer and editor from India. They are co-author of Pleasure Gardens: Blackout and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir (MACK Books\, with Izabella Scott) and editor of Palestine is everywhere (TBA21\, Silver Press). They are currently based in Madrid\, as Curator and Editor at TBA21. \nBen Eastham is an art critic and editor based in London. The editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism\, and a regular contributor to the Guardian\, he was previously a founding editor of The White Review and an editor at ArtReview. He has edited books on Luis Camnitzer\, Arshile Gorky\, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender\, worked on exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennale and documenta\, and is on the advisory panel of EVA International. He began his career as a journalist at the BBC reporting on global mass media and propaganda\, and has lived in Athens and Rome. His previous book\, The Imaginary Museum (TLS Books\, 2020)\, is about how works of art change the way we see the world.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/the-fitzcarraldo-winter-party-ben-eastham-at-el-cafe-gijon/
LOCATION:Café Gijón\, P.º de Recoletos\, 21\, Madrid\, Madrid\, 28004\, Spain
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SUMMARY:The Fitzcarraldo Winter Party  The Big Bash
DESCRIPTION:Fitzcarraldo Editions Winter Party at Desperate Literature\nMunir Hachemi\, Ben Eastham\, Claire-Louise Bennett and Holly Pester.\nPlease join us to celebrate Fitzcarraldo Editions at Desperate Literature\,\n\n\nThere will be drinks and music.\n\n \nFiesta de Invierno de Fitzcarraldo Editions en Desperate Literature\n\nLes invitamos a celebrar Fitzcarraldo Editions en Desperate Literature\ncon lecturas de: Munir Hachemi\, Ben Eastham\, Claire-Louise Bennett y Holly Pester.Habrá bebidas y música
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/the-fitzcarraldo-winter-party-the-big-bash/
LOCATION:Desperate Literature\, calle de la cava baja 8\, Madrid\, Comunidad de Madrid\, 28005\, Spain
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SUMMARY:The Waste Land | The Third Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Our aim at the end of these three sessions is to give us the tools actually to read this modernist poem.\nHow and why The Waste Land is (de)constructed.\nHow we link apparently fragmented lines through Eliot’s references\, the hypertexts. \nWe might not finish the wasteland entirely\, but you will however be ready to go forth\, brave adventurer…\nExpect a serious (and seriously playful) engagement with Eliot. \nTICKETS €5 for three lectures. PLEASE SIGN UP VIA LINK.\nCover charge is discounted against books! \n\n\nThe Third Lecture:\nLet’s try get to the end of the first part \n\nNecessary Reading:\nThe Waste Land \nRecommended Reading:\nMarie Larisch\, Madame Sosostris \n\nBob Shepherd’s research focuses on the intertextual relationships between multilingual literatures\, particularly the poetry of T.S. Eliot. His current work explores Eliot’s poetic methods\, with particular emphasis on The Waste Land\, Prufrock and the fusion of dramatic monologue and lyric. Bob Shepherd currently teaches at UAM\, Madrid.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/the-waste-land-the-third-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261125T193000
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SUMMARY:LUCRECIA  La hermosura no contada de mi violador  Rodrigo García Marina
DESCRIPTION:Os invitamos a celebrar el nuevo poemario de Rodrigo García Marina.\nEvento moderado por Alicia Otero. \n\nToda criatura temblante. \nDel mismo modo que en Orlando furioso los caballeros son engañados constantemente al entrar en el castillo de Atlante por puertas y muros ilusorios que abren paso al anhelo y el deseo\, el corazón de este libro también despliega puertas y palacios como un laberinto infinito hacia la violencia\, la belleza y el amor. \nLucrecia. La hermosura no contada de mi violador es un texto excesivo y barroco que impulsa los poemas con la fuerza monstruosa de quien ha decidido destapar los horrores ocultos de la historia. Y estos horrores aparecen tan de cerca que te obligan a mirarlos\, a olerlos\, a anidarlos en tu vergüenza misma. Como dice Víctor Mora\, este es un lugar tenebroso y cercano como un hogar frío y algo inhóspito que\, después de todo\, podemos reconocer como propio\, y comprender entonces\, quizá\, que en la densidad de las sombras y los silencios también hay rincones de luz y calidez. \nIlustración de la cubierta: Daniel Sánchez Palomo \n\nRodrigo García Marina (Madrid\, 1996) trabaja como médico. Ha trabajado como editor para Editorial Cántico\, siendo director del sello Culpables. Ha publicado los siguientes títulos: La caricia de las amapolas (Premio Saulo Torón 2015)\, Aureus (I Premio de Poesía Irreconciliables)\, Edad (I Premio Saulo Torón)\, Desear la casa y Los prodigiosos gatos monteses. Su trabajo performativo se basa en el análisis de la violencia sexual\, el sadomasoquismo y la corporeidad queer\, y lo ha desarrollado en espacios tales como Conde Duque\, el Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid o el Museo Reina Sofía\, entre otros. \nAlicia Otero (2000) es graduada en Filosofía y Máster en Estudios Literarios por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Sus textos han aparecido en revistas como Casapaís y Granos de Polen. En 2024 publicó su primer poemario\, Dulce es la niña como la carne de caza (ediciones en el mar). Coordina el proyecto cultural ánade\, una plataforma destinada a la difusión literaria\, y imparte talleres de escritura.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/lucrecia-la-hermosura-no-contada-de-mi-violador-rodrigo-garcia-marina/
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SUMMARY:Doppelgänger  with Sam Riviere
DESCRIPTION:Our Culture\, A Most Anticipated Book of Fall\nThe Millions\, A Most Anticipated Fall Book\nLiterary Hub\, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year \nIn a fictional English university town in the near future lies Northwick Author Development Academy\, an elite incubator for the creative class. \nIts candidates arrive desperate to prove their originality\, only to find that their work has converged into something eerily uniform. \nAs a contagious ‘twinning’ trend sweeps across the student body\, the cohort find themselves trapped in a tightening web of surveillance and mythmaking. Watched constantly by the Academy’s hidden media unit\, they begin to resemble copies of one another – twinned in fear\, ambition\, and aesthetic drift. \nFrom award-winning poet Sam Riviere\, Doppelgänger is fiction at its most clever\, most engaging and most self-reflective. Both a scathing critique of contemporary culture and a virtuoso game of cat and mouse\, Doppelgänger invites its reader on a quest with an uncertain outcome\, guided always by Riviere’s wit\, stylistic brilliance\, and matchless mind. \nREAD MORE ABOUT DOPPELGÄNGER \n\n“A canny\, cerebral work of hyperrealism . . . Beyond Riviere’s genius dismantling of capital C ‘Culture.’ there are also more general observations about society that you feel compelled to underline . . . He layers observation on observation\, pairing the recursive rhythms of Thomas Bernhard with the social acuity of Ben Lerner. Often his paragraphs run to several pages but avoid disorientating the reader. Meanwhile\, his winking character names—Patrick Fake\, Isabella Final\, Carl Sample—are enjoyably Pynchonesque. The danger with writing a book like Doppelgänger is that you end up perpetuating the very thing you’re warning against. But Riviere pulls it off; he has succeeded in making Doppelgänger undeniably singular.” —Matthew Janney\, The Financial Times \n\nSam Riviere is the author of the poetry books 81 Austerities (2012)\, Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (2015)\, After Fame (2020) and Conflicted Copy (2024) as well as numerous limited-edition titles. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2009\, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2012. Born in Norwich\, he currently lives in London\, where he runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. His debut novel Dead Souls (2021) was published by W&N in the UK and Catapult in the US.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/doppelganger-with-sam-riviere/
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SUMMARY:Las Plagas Sutiles
DESCRIPTION:Las Plagas Sutiles\nlecturas y música\nLectura de varios de los cuentos de Las plagas sutiles (Franz\, 2026)\, leídos por Pablo R. Mateos y acompañados con la música improvisada del autor del libro\, Santiago Gutiérrez\, y de Alberto Granados\, compositor. \n«Tratan de lo que nunca ha sucedidoni podría suceder» —Javier Azpeitia \n\n\nComo si fueran poemas\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUna colección de catorce relatos brumosos que flirtean con lo fantástico en una atmósfera onírica. «Como si fueran poemas»\, dice Javier Azpeitia en el epílogo\, «tratan de lo que nunca ha sucedido ni podría suceder». Situados en espacios liminales y en un tiempo mítico\, los cuentos de Santiago Gutiérrez exploran las fronteras de la imaginación desde el misticismo y la fábula.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEn Las plagas sutiles se intuyen las entrelíneas de lo inconmensurable\, lo legendario o la fatalidad: los personajes cumplen su destino mientras cruzan ciertos umbrales hipnagógicos hacia la ficción y la trascendencia.\n\n\n\n\nPablo Rodríguez Mateos (Madrid\, 1993): profesor de Filosofía\, con estudios en teatro y maravilloso cuentacuentos. \nSantiago Gutiérrez (Madrid\, 1994):  Escritor y corrector editorial para Taurus y Debate\, graduado en Filosofía y con un Máster en Edición por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Autor de Las plagas sutiles (Franz\, 2026)\, que ha resultado finalista del Premio Setenil 2026. \nAlberto Granados Reguilón: (Madrid\, 1993): Compositor y músico. Ganador del Premio Talía por Mejor Música Original 2025 (además ha sido anteriormente nominado y candidato a los premios nacionales de teatro Max en otras ocasiones). Es ganador del concurso de composición Voces por Europa Cáceres 2031. Graduado en Composición por el conservatorio de Rotterdam y Máster de Composición por el conservatorio de Amsterdam. Máster de Dirección de Orquesta en el Conservatorio Superior Katarina Gurska de Madrid.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/las-plagas-sutiles/
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SUMMARY:Mermaid Theory  Poetry with Maya Salameh
DESCRIPTION:A delight of dream-logic\, old and new mythologies\, intimacies\, hallucinatory sciences. I will read anything Maya Salameh writes. Mermaid Theory is awash with newnesses\, with wonder.  —Safia Elhillo \nEvery sentence in these poems is an opportunity to see something differently\, to astonish.  —Victoria Chang \n\nWe invite Maya Salameh to read from her new collecton\, Mermaid Theory.\nFrom an award-winning\, innovative poet\, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age \nIn her second full-length collection\, Maya Salameh offers a profound exploration of Arab American identity\, weaving together themes of myth\, science\, and cultural heritage. This daring collection deploys psychological evaluation forms\, ritual incantations\, and captivating visual poetry. \nSalameh transcends simple narratives of shame or violence to offer a nuanced portrayal of identity\, exploring both the privileges and heartbreaks of diasporic exile. Her multilingual poetry bridges Arabic and English\, enriching the poems’ sonic texture. Salameh scrutinizes established academic and cultural narratives\, inviting readers to rethink their own understandings of history and identity. \n\nMaya Salameh is a Syrian- and Lebanese-American writer from San Diego\, California. She is the author of Mermaid Theory (Haymarket Books\, 2026) and How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press\, 2022)\, winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and finalist for the California Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, Poetry\, The Offing\, LitHub\, Gulf Coast\, AGNI\, ANMLY\, and the LA Times\, among others. Maya has performed at the Obama White House\, Carnegie Hall\, and for figures including Michelle Obama\, Jill Biden\, and Brigitte Macron.\n‍\nA 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Maya has received the Sewanee Review Poetry Prize\, the Lambda Literary Award for Exceptional New Writers\, and support from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop\, Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop\, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. From 2016–2017\, she served as a National Student Poet\, America’s highest honor for youth poets. She has taught poetry workshops for Brooklyn Poets\, Ellipsis Writing\, and Workshops4Gaza\, with a focus on experimental forms and ecopoetics. She is currently a law student at UCLA\, where she aims to be a civil rights litigator.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/mermaid-theory/
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SUMMARY:Casa Poética Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SEE CLUBS PAGE FOR ALL WORKSHOPS AND BOOKCLUBS \nAlejandra Pizarnik: You write poems because you need a place where what isn’t may be. \nCan we hide in language? Can we use language to say the unsayable? What is it that cannot be said? This season\, we will enter the world of Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires\, 1936–1972) through a selection of poems in which language condenses\, meanings hide\, and the poet’s fight to speak will make us question the relationship between words and silence. \nCasa Poética is a literary community founded by poet and educator Irene Torra. Since 2022\, it has brought together more than 150 participants from over 30 countries around contemporary poetry through close reading\, collaborative discussion and live encounters with poets. \nFall dates:\nSeptember: 27\nOctober: 11\, 25\nNovember: 15\, 29 (with guest poet)\nDecember: 13 (open mic) \nTo join please fill in this FORM or contact Irene (on IG @casapoetica.madrid or via irenetorra.poesia@gmail.com) \n\nSingle session: 9 euros\nFull term (6 sessions): 45 euros\nOpen mic: 6 euros
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/casa-poetica-open-mic/
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