Wednesday, January 27, 2010

LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series

Tuesday, 2nd February, 2010, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London
WC1A 2TH

Featuring Sarah Law and Steve Spence.

Details of the recent collections that will be officially launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/law2009.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/spence.html

Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/lawA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/spenceA.html

The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.

Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.

Subsequent readings -- at the same venue -- will take place as follows:-
10 March -- launch of the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries from UK Women Poets, edited by Carrie Etter, with short readings from fifteen of the poets featured in the book; this event will be hosted by the editor;
20 April -- Jaime Robles and Lars Amund Vaage;
4 May -- Camille Martin & Alasdair Paterson;
1 June -- readers tbc

Please mark your diaries!

An additional reading is scheduled for 2 March, 7:30pm, at Westminster Kingsway College, Victoria, at which the Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read from her recent Shearsman Selected Poems with at least two of her translators; further venue and access details in due course.

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