Episode image is a detail from the cover of 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere, published in 2012 by Faber and Faber; series design by Pentagram.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere, published in 2012 by Faber and Faber; series design by Pentagram.

Joining Charles Adrian up in the Frobisher Boardroom at London’s Barbican Centre for the 108th Second Hand Book Factory is poet, spoken word performer, producer, writer and educator Dan Simpson. They discuss a world in which the word cyber still evoked a streetwise tomorrow, an experience that might arguably be described as the worst date ever and a poetic response to the onset of austerity.

Paula Varjack, who is the other half of Varjack & Simpson, was featured in Page One 53, which can be found here.

Episode Released: 13th June, 2017.

 

Book listing:

Introduction, by Peter F. Hamilton, from Cyber-killers (edited by Ric Alexander)

The Sorrows Of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (trans. Bayard Quincy Morgan)

Crisis Poem by Sam Riviere (from 81 Austerities)

 

Links:

Varjack & Simpson

Paula Varjack

Page One 53

Dan Simpson

Charles Adrian Gillott