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 25^th, 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.