11^th March 7.30 at The Rose Theatre, the Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk; £4.50

A Poetry Event of Two Halves

A Quick Fire First Set of Poetry to Celebrate 25 Years of Creative Writing at Edge Hill

Matt Fallaize

Alice Lenkiewicz

Bill Bulloch

Natasha Borton

Scott Thurston

Adam Hampton

Joanne Ashcroft

Tom Jenks

(All these poets are featured on Robert Sheppard’s blog. Go to for summary and links to all the poets

http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/twenty-five-years-of-creative-writing.html

Followed by

11^th March ROSE READING Ian Seed

Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chester. He has lived and worked in different countries, including Italy, France and Poland. His poetry, prose poetry, fiction, reviews and translations have appeared in such journals as Blackbox Manifold, Free Verse, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The North, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tears in the Fence. Seed’s first full-length collection, Anonymous Intruder, was published by Shearsman in 2009. Shearsman have also published his collections Shifting Registers (2011) and Makers of Empty Dreams (2014).

http://www.chester.ac.uk/departments/english/staff/academic-staff/dr-ian-seed