Hi Zero is back! We present the first of another round of poetry readings and performances, featuring the following poets/performers:

…whose poems have appeared in and on The Claudius App., Hi Zero, SCREE, and most recently Asphodel, amongst other places; her book WORK SONGS came out from Shit Valley Verlag in 2013.

…has published 3 books of poetry in Brazil: Visita (2000), Distância (2005) and Trânsitos (2009), and also a few poetry pamphlets. The last one, A Terra do Nunca e Muito Longe (Neverland is Too Far Away), was published in 2014 by Não Edições in Lisbon.

She is a poetry translator, and published three titles of Scottish translated to Portuguese, also “Livro Universal” of the Chilean poet Hector Hernandez Montecinos, and a couple of chapbooks with translations of Paul Eluard and Tristan Tzara to Portuguese.

Lisa Jayne is a poet and artist who performs in London, Brighton and beyond. She is the founder of words-sound-chaos improv group Ringlock and runs her own improv night Scola. Lisa has been published by Vagabondage Press in the US and Iodine Press in the UK, and has self-published many booklets of her writing including ‘1980s Essex Teenage Girl’, 'Nyara Static Shift Bird’, and 'Disordered’.

Andy Pyne is a drummer and producer whose previous bands include Medicine and Duty, Shrag and The Black Neck Band of the Common Loon. He has played live with Damo Suzuki, Thurston Moore, and Oneida’s Kid Millions in Man Forever. Andy keeps up a prolific musical output; besides Map 71 his current musical projects include Kellar, The West Hill Blast Quartet and Aeolipile.

Andy Pyne and Lisa Jayne began working together as Map 71 with a performance at the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire in 2013. Since then they’ve put out an album, a single and a limited edition booklet plus CD EP on Andy’s Foolproof Projects label and also a cassette release on Blue Tapes. Map 71 have done live radio sessions for Resonance and NTS and were amongst the artists featured in The Wire’s article on the Brighton Noise Poets.

All taking place, as usual, upstairs at the Hope and Ruin, just down from the train station, in Brighton.