Calum Rodger is a Glasgow-based poet and critic working in print, performance and digital forms. Recent work includes *PORTS* – classic twentieth-century poems reimagined as videogame instructions (SPAM Press) – and *Gotta Eat the Plums! with William Carlos Williams* – a ludic interpretation of the most famous poem in the world about plums, playable for free online. He was Scottish National Slam Champion in 2019 and holds a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow.
Calum Rodger
All Sessions by Calum Rodger
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Day 2
16th October 2021
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13:00
Takeover: Gutter
13:00 - 14:00This takeover examining eco-politics and the climate crisis is hosted by Katy Hastie and Calum Rodger of Gutter Magazine. Gutter is an award-winning print journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland, and featuring literature from around the world. Just as Gutter focusses on publishing energetic and ambitious Scottish writing in an international context, so too will performances by Maria Sledmere and Lady Red Ego electrify and captivate. Gutter Editor Shehzar Doja will also present on impacts of climate change in Bangladesh.
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Day 3
17th October 2021
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15:00
Double Bill: Sam Riviere & Calum Rodger
15:00 - 16:00Calum Rodger is a poet working in performance, print, and digital media. Armed with a PhD in Scottish literature, he has reimagined 20th century poems as video games, and created crowdsourced poetry for the Edwin Morgan Centenary Program at the Hunterian. Uniquely for Push the Boat Out, he’ll present an extended reworking, via film and performance, of Rock, Star, North., a poetic travelogue set in the Grand Theft Auto V universe.
Sam Riviere’s poetry is fearless and satirical, and has been described as a kind of ‘anti-poetry’ in its rejection of so many of the conventions and hallows of the contemporary poetry ‘scene’. Riviere is the author of three poetry books: the Forward Prize-winning 81 Austerities, Kim Kardashian's Marriage and After Fame. His novel Dead Souls sends up the entire ‘poetry business’, positing a world where the currency is poetry. These two poets are very much of the present and the future, and are not to be missed.
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