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An Evening of Poetry and Music

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Come and hear four excellent poets read from their new collections and a local musician, Steve Halliwell, who has worked extensively with Roger McGough and Carol Ann Duffy, will provide music with a poetic lilt.

Chris Beckett was born in London but grew up in Ethiopia, which he writes about in his poetry. He also translates Ethiopian Amharic poetry into English. His last book of poems was Ethiopia Boy published in 2013. This year Carcanet will bring out his third collection, Tenderfoot, as well as the first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, Songs We Learn from Trees.

Lynne Hjelmaard As a result of crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her husband Lynne wrote poems that were later collected in Manhattan Sonnets. After her husband died in 2006, she received a residency grant for the Danish Academy in Rome where she wrote poems that later appeared in The Ring. A Boat Called Annalise was published with Seren Books in 2016 and A Second Whisper was published by Seren Books last year.

Jane Kirwan won an Arts Council Writers’ Award in 2002, has been commended and won prizes, She published a novel Don’t Mention Her through Blue Door Press in 2016 as well as a poetry collection Stories & Lies with Pamela Johnson and Jennifer Grigg in 2018. Her latest collection The Goose Woman was published by Blue Door Press in February 2019.

Anne Stewart founded and runs the online poet showcase www.poetrypf.co.uk and is administrator for Second Light. Her latest collection is The Last Parent (SLP 2019). Her awards include the Bridport Prize, Southport Prize and Silver Wyvern (Poetry on the Lake, Italy).

Plus 6 floor poets

Free evening with donations for refreshments.

Further details from Wendy French

[email protected] or Robert Hancock

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