About
Ariadne Radi Cor is an Anglo Italian poet, collage maker, audio producer and voice over artist. She holds a BA in English from the University of London.
Her first collection of poetry was shortlisted by the Melita Hume prize in 2019. Her first chapbook L’Italie L’Ondon was published in 2020 by Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Her video poems have been screened in London at the Rich Mix, as part of Cameradefest and Kakania (2014), the European Poetry night (2016), the Enemies project (2015) and at Cinepoetry; in Bratislava at Ars Poetica, and in Venice as part of Crossing Voices, Phonodia (2014).
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PUBLICATIONS – poems
L’Italie L’Ondon, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, March 2020 (order here)
L’Italie L’Ondon, (excerpts) anthologised in Wretched Strangers, Boiler House Press, 2018
The Laundry, published in Stories of Change, 2016
It’s the last thing you said, a visual poem published in Cordite 47.0 2014, and HVTN Press, 2019
E3 4TH, an object book, ed. n 8356 by Edizioni pulcinoelefante, 2011
A poet’s poet, anthologized in Welcome Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Obliquamente edizioni, 2005
PUBLICATIONS – essays: On receivers, metaphors and postcards, published by Versopolis Review, 2018
About non-existence, published by ACINEFILO, 2014
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AWARDS
The Third was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize, 2019
My coffee spoons collection was awarded the third prize at the London Coffee Festival, 2013
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EXHIBITIONS Visual poetry, notebooks and coffee spoons
■ Poetry notebooks solo show at Lighthouse studios, London, UK, February 2016
■ Lettering at Kew Gardens, London, as part of the Healing Giant installation by Kirsti Davies, 2013
■ Coffee spoons at Prufrock Coffee, Leather Lane, London, UK, April 2013 – November 2017
■ Coffee spoons at Dire Poesia Poetry Festival in Vicenza, Italy, April 2010
■ Poetry handwritten on walls, at Vicolo dei Tintori, 2008 and at Cederna Factory, 2006
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SCREENING – Video poems
■ Wet Dream-Post Flapper, screened at Cinepoetry, the PAD, London, February 2016
■ A Place, screened at the Rich Mix, London, European Poetry night, May 2016
■ Talk / Listen / Door, at the Rich Mix, London, Enemies project, November 2015
■ Four Delays and Storyboard for Four Delays, at Ars Poetica, Bratislava, Slovakia, December 2014
■ Remember, comma, this brightness, Venice, at Phonodia May 2014
■ Bones of Water, at Ein hungerkunstler, Trento Italy, December 2012
■ Subtitles for a Film Noir, at Dire Poesia, Vicenza, and at Tra le Rocce e il Cielo Festival, August 2010
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PERFORMANCES – Audio work
■ L’Italie L’Ondon, performed at FILL the Festival of Italian Literature in London, 2018
■ Various poems and songs, as part of Communication Hurts, Fivizzano, Italy, 2007
■ 84b, commissioned and performed at Spazio Rossi, Borgo, Italy, 2006
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ARTIST TALKS – Talks
■ about video poems at Cinepoetry, the PAD, London February 5th 2016 (in English)
■ about writing, translation and photography at Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, January 30th 2013 (in Italian)
■ about collage and video poems at Teatro Ca Foscari, Venice University, June 5th, 2013 (in English)
IN OLDER NEWS
A selection of postcards is always on sale at the Black Gull Books, 121, High Road, N2 8AG, London – above East Finchley tube station :
My ongoing collection of coffee spoons from around Europe collected from 2003 to 2017 has been on display at Prufrock Cafe near Farringdon, London from April 2013 to November 2017.