Camaradefest
100 poets. 50 pairs.
one day

Camaradefest presents 50 brand new collaborative works involving 100 poets working in pairs over one day. A unique festival of collaborative poetry, Camaradefest is a showcase of the breadth and depth of 21st century literary and avant garde poetry and the potential of collaboration in the poetic arts. Taking place in 2013 and 2014, Camaradefest began at 12 noon and finished late into the night at the Rich Mix Arts Centre in Brick Lane, London, and brought together poets from around the world. Free to attend, both fests brought over 500 people in attendance.

You can listen to a Culture Laser podcast about the 1st Camaradefest here: http://culturelaser.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-31T23_49_26-07_00


Camaradefest II - October 25th 2014 at the Rich Mix Arts Centre

Ross Sutherland & Thomas Bunstead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfp_P2wB5w
John Clegg & Holly Corfield Carr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuL3kMUCI6M
Nick Murray & Aki Schilz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_UHyPcqpUI
Sarah Dawson & Robin Boothroyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58JLMgIxRO4
Jonah Wilberg & Lucy Furlong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHChB8cTJY
Vera Chok & Sophie Herxheimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJYSwlciNg
Jon Stone & Harry Wooler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQWnXAxV00
Paul Hawkins & Mali Clements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3AlEVbqis
Cali Dux & Simon Pomery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSvD0CIxUEU
Angus Sinclair & Laura Elliott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbVgf0Pcfw
George Szirtes & Carol Watts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIBnKsGFUo
Gareth Rees & Gary Budden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsLejzR0rRU
Robert Kiely & Doug Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtnmbrjAHHg
Mike Saunders & Emilia Weber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3XPPcYSQ4A
Tamar Yoseloff & Claire Crowther
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENbSrOlgBxk
Andy Spragg & Emma Hammond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkwJ7CbBuuU
Alan Halsey & Geraldine Monk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgyFD5sv0s
Nia Davies & Sarah Howe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTDEpryzkE
Tim Allen & Richard Barrett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v825a2R7yIQ
Prudence Chamberlain & Eley Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRA4TDSEvM
Hannah Silva & Andra Simons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIKR-YM1SkU
James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSCVJBizFTg
Vicky Sparrow & Dave Spittl
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOqM7Sdeiw
gnes Lehoczky & Astrid Alben
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi46d4s6vD0
Francine Elena & Emily Hasler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0Y68Do3BI
Ollie Evans & Becky Varley Winte
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-6ErFrzXw
Rebecca Tamas & Martin Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9e6ZPVujMM
Sarah Kelly & Seekers of Lice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHazjqVrKSQ
Jow Lindsay & Anne Laure Coxam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_KgpEhXFWc
Marcus Slease & JT Welsch
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6Qd6xTmrY
James Wilkes & Ariadne Radi Cor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glPqBljn4iM
Edmund Hardy & Amy Cutler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYa2wDoPnE
Sophie Collins & Livia Franchini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haBN_nHCqKU
Nikolai Duffy & Rhys Trimble
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrltmSLikyk
Ryan Van Winkle & Ghazal Mosadeq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UYVkYypUw
Calum Rodger & Anthony Autumn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k9t_pUykBg
Cristine Brache & Holly Childs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9QLUlMq5CQ
Lila Matsumoto & Samantha Walton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX5mQzy020o
James Davies & Philip Terry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67_iVlMSmA
Harry Man & Kirsty Irving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rm3tP0q8qo
Nathan Jones & Christodoulos Makris
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtIFvHzvCQs
Zuzana Husarova & Olga Pek
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC1CEhq9oGA
David Berridge & Stephen Emmerson
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKhFGoIWQw
Alison Gibb & Kimberley Campanello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcUWdWHaQBE
Sean Bonney & nick-e melville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBRH1iQ8ds
Luke Allan & Graeme Smith
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoe3qfYkdAM
Sam Riviere & Crispin Best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfKMgNFdJg
Colin Herd & Iain Morrison Camaradefest II - Colin Herd & Iain Morrison
Holly Pester & Emma Bennett
 Camaradefest II - Holly Pester & Emma Bennett


after the 2nd Fest - Camaradefest blogs & videos

Only a few weeks ago now, Camaradefest seems to resonated with the people who attended and performed, which is obviously very gratifying. Some lovely blog posts have been written detailing the day, from:

Aki Schilz - http://akifreetheword.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/camaradefest-ii/ "...I wrote a few micropoems on Twitter throughout the day, taking bits from everyone else’s poems to compose a sort of ‘mashup’ collection/overview of the event

Iain Morrison - http://permanentpositions.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/veni-vidi-lectiti-iains-london-visit-24-28-october-2014/ 
"We arrived at something, sounding like Steve Reich minimalism regularly interrupted by exclamatory words, via a poem by Brodsky called Elegy for John Donne. It’s an iambic pentameter poem. Most of the syllables in it we suppressed into the number 1 with a few words showing through to disrupt the typographic snow drift."

Holly Corfield Carr - http://hollycorfieldcarr.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/bisect-dissect/
",,,and this incised extimacy with Eley Willams and Prudence Chamberlain and more things than I can try to cleverly word from more poets than I can fit in my car and drive around the Carr-Clegg coniunctio.  There was everything I could want: flip-charts, trip ups, rip-roaring laughter and pillows in swimsuits and sexy poems and power steeples and that was only the first hour.  It was wonderful and a bit messy and a lot good."

& this grand minidoc by the Czech centre marking the appearance of Zuzana Husarova & Olga Pek 


Camaradefest I - October 26th 2013 at the Rich Mix Arts Centre

Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmNNcm94BQ
David Berridge & Mary Paterson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrclkspq9Qw
Kirsty Irving & Jon Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPKcsFcI4y0
Jeff Hilson & Fabian MacPherson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1PYYhcq-Zw
Edmund Hardy & James Wilkes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDC6dS6zfZY
Giles Goodland & Alistair Noon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrefAF4J1uo
Marek Kazmierski & Wioletta Grzegorzewska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZoQ4_rNSM
Matt Dalby & Steven Waling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJp3qb9qwuk
Tom Chivers & Ross Sutherland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izlD0UZDdOA
Marcus Slease & Claire Potter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_yMooKRak
Mendoza & Nat Raha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3M9CBZqEaY
Pascal O'Laughlin & Scott Thurston http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmcA4QxSzWU
Ghazal Mosadeq & Ricardo Marques http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gUeIE2GMk

Andy Spragg & Joe Kennedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSYRJvLqozw
Robert Hampson & Chris Gutkind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZh_DAf8Zo
Julia Bird & Sarah Hesketh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaD5-P2QVE
Bea Colley & Francine Elena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_3F7YkiOfU
Jon Stone & Nia Davies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUy6hf0AoQ
Stephen Watts & Will Rowe 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIdsBCfyNo
Zoe Skoulding & Ondrej Buddeus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQQKOSg7QU
Oli Hazzard & Caleb Klaces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85IpC6xR41Q
Tim Atkins & Jessica Pujol I Duran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5mW7fgqOA
Ryan Van Winkle & William Letford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSoTQi4qTog
Jack Underwood & Alex MacDonald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdawazLHK-g
Joanna Rzadkowska & Kristen Kreider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEoggpGj27U
Stephen Connolly & Manuela Moser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6KeoU2de2A
Sophie Collins & Rachael Allen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW4DTRewcBo
Sarah Kelly & Gabriele Lebanauskaite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRUzHWCfHyw
Deborah Pearson & Tamarin Norwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5mD4-D95o

Ollie Evans & Robert Kiely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yneW0Td-gI
Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJiwOlbJaYg
Christodoulos Makris & Kim Campanello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BneTYOum46g
Reza Mohammedi & Ana Seferovic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8ginmZPyM
James Byrne & Sandeep Parmar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJ7GF1yTig
Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTMF84LdjNo