{"id":1919,"date":"2011-12-28T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:15:08","slug":"austerities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/austerities\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 23 February,   7.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Toynbee Studios<br \/>\n28 Commercial Street London E1 6AB<\/p>\n<p>\u00a35 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsadmin.co.uk\/events\/3027\">Book online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam Riviere\u2019s online collection of poems and promotional material <em>81 Austerities<\/em> is a passive\/aggressive response to the \u2018austerity measures\u2019 implemented by the coalition government in the wake of the financial crisis. Ranging in theme from pornography to death and longing, the project aims to apply such \u2018cuts\u2019 preemptively to poetry itself, experiencing this deprivation primarily on the levels of sentiment, structure, and subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>Riviere (Faber New Poets) presents <em>81 Austerities<\/em> in conjunction with readings from other poets, and discussion on poetry\u2019s relationship to money, politics and advertising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austerities.tumblr.com\/\">Read 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere online<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\n<\/em>&#8220;austerity figures as a revocation of generosity, a violence done to form, a grain to the surface of language&#8221;<em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong>New Statesman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A brilliantly modern vision of boredom and deprivation&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Dazed &amp; Confused<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lu39c2P1aT1qisqpdo1_500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 23 February, 7.30pm Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street London E1 6AB \u00a35 &#8211; Book online Sam Riviere\u2019s online collection of poems and promotional material 81 Austerities is a passive\/aggressive response to the \u2018austerity measures\u2019 implemented by the coalition government in the wake of the financial crisis. Ranging in theme from pornography to death and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}