A event on Tuesday 18th June. The event starts at 19:00.
Award-winning poet, Sam Riviere, comes to Gloucester Road Books to read from and discuss his fascinating new poetry collection, Conflicted Copy, in conversation with radio and podcast producer for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, Mair Bosworth.
In Conflicted Copy, Sam Riviere steps into the creative breach of now and the future by using AI as a source for writing the collection.
Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting ‘found’ content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), an open-source neural network, is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that speaks of the uncertainties, fears and desires of a world that is desperately, poignantly and recognisably human.
‘These poems are both body and screen, the site of endless re-pinging between self and other, and their underlying subject is editing the way others see us.’ The Guardian
‘If you want to know what new things poetry can do, you’ll find this an exhilaratingly authentic way to confront the inauthentic, both in ourselves and in society.’ Ruth Padel
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
In Conflicted Copy, Sam Riviere steps into the creative breach of now and the future by using AI as a source for writing the collection.
Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting ‘found’ content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), an open-source neural network, is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that speaks of the uncertainties, fears and desires of a world that is desperately, poignantly and recognisably human.
‘These poems are both body and screen, the site of endless re-pinging between self and other, and their underlying subject is editing the way others see us.’ The Guardian
‘If you want to know what new things poetry can do, you’ll find this an exhilaratingly authentic way to confront the inauthentic, both in ourselves and in society.’ Ruth Padel
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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