14th June, 7 PM. The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA.
- Joanne Ashcroft
- Lucy Burnett
- Nathan Thompson
- Steve Spence
14th June, 7 PM. The Town Hall Tavern, 20 Tib Lane, Manchester, M2 4JA.
Other room organiser and Other Room reader Nathan Thompson are involved in the following event:
Poetry Book Launch: Lucy Burnett, with Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey
To celebrate the launch of her first poetry collection, Leaf Graffiti (Northern House / Carcanet Press), Lucy Burnett will be joined by Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey for an eclectic night of poetry in the atmospheric surroundings of The Anthony Burgess Centre.
July 25th, 6.30pm, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY
FREE
Lucy Burnett’s first collection, Leaf Graffiti, was published by the Northern House imprint of Carcanet Press in April 2013. She has previously been published in magazines including Stand, Poetry Wales, Shadowtrain andnthposition. Lucy has just been appointed by the Arvon Foundation as Centre Director of The Hurst in Shropshire where she will take up position in the autumn; previously she taught Creative Writing at the Universities of Strathclyde and Salford, where she also completed her PhD.
Caroline Hawkridge wrote women’s health books before completing a MA in Creative Writing at MMU, where she was nominated for Faber New Poets. Currently, she is poet-in-residence at the National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester.
Nathan Thompson was born in Cornwall and studied music at the University of Exeter, where he subsequently lectured part time in musicology. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and lives in Hebden Bridge. His collections of poetry include the arboretum towards the beginning and The Visitor’s Guest from Shearsman, and pamphlets from Oystercatcher Press, Knives Forks & Spoons and Gratton Street Irregulars.
Scott Thurston’s books include Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011), Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010) and three collections with Shearsman: Internal Rhyme (2010), Momentum (2008) and Hold (2006). He co-organises The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester and co-edits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Scott has written widely on contemporary poetry and lectures at the University of Salford.
Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor currently living in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Wales,Poetry Review, PN Review, New Walk, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt, forthcoming autumn 2013). Her first full-length collection Missel-Child is due from Carcanet in January 2014.
“Who is looking at, listening to and leaning on whom? And what is left of looking, listening and leaning in what is ironically referred to as the post ultimate glade? Thompson, with understated assertiveness, doesn’t answer these questions, but the poems in The Visitor’s Guest changed the way I had to walk around the block this morning. Thompson’s writing opens up a space with which I’m half familiar—perhaps it’s the sense of honesty which underlies his slanted lyrical stance— but which continues to surprise. Many of these poems engage with ‘love’, as a perception, as a verb, but to say so underestimates them. Visceral, tangential, with a genuine sense of belief / refusal to believe. You might think that you’ve arrived but, most of all, how interesting it is trying to get there.” —Lucy Burnett
More information at Shearsman.
Colin Herd gets to grips with the fast growing Red Ceilings press and 3 of their titles by Andrew Spragg, Nathan Thompson and David Berridge in 3 am magazine.
JULY THE 16th 2011
1pm, FREE
MICHAEL EGAN
JOANNE ASHCROFT
PATRICIA FARRELL
NATHAN THOMPSON
At Mello Mello
40 – 42 Slater Street
Liverpool
L1 4BX
Other Room reader Nathan Thompson’s The Day Maybe Died now available at www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk. Watch a film of his reading at The Other Room in July 2010 here.
New ebook now available at Red Ceilings.
Some links to the work of Nathan Thompson who reads at The Other Room 7th July with Keston Sutherland, Jeff Hilson and Derek Beaulieu. Next week Derek Beaulieu:
Reviews
American Poetry With An Accent
Paul Evans, The Door of Taldir, Selected Poems
Lee Harwood
Poems