NIALL CAMPBELL and HELEN TOOKEY

FRIDAY 18th July June 2014
Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £4, 7 pm start.

Niall Campbell is a Scottish poet originally from South Uist in the Western Isles. He received an Eric Gregory Award (2011) and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship (2011). Niall also won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. His first pamphlet, After the Creel Fleet, was released in 2012 by Happenstance Press. Moontide, his first collection, is published by Bloodaxe and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

http://niallcampbellpoet.wordpress.com/

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor, originally from Leicester and now based in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies and her first full-length collection, Missel-Child, is out now from Carcanet Press. Grevel Lindop described her poems as having ‘a genuine eeriness’, going on to say ‘She has interests in both archaeology and psychology, but knows intuitively that they aren’t separate’. Many of the poems in Missel-Child explore borderland spaces and hint at the return of buried material: ‘The gravelled path gives way to broken angles, / burials of water. Follow it’. Tookey writes in a variety of modes and forms, including metrical and free verse, syllabics, collage and other uses of found text. Writing in Poetry London, Clare Pollard called her ‘one of the most exciting users of collage I’ve seen for a long while’

http://helentookey.wordpress.com/

Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, Storm and Golden Sky offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape. Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets, Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees.