Monday, 24th October, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE
The Western,
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA
Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear
Creators present Leicester Shindig!
with Mal Dewhirst,
Jane Commane, Charles Lauder and Wayne Burrows.
Charles Lauder, Jr, was born and raised in
San Antonio, Texas and now lives in south Leicestershire. His poems have
appeared in both British and American journals, and in spring 2012 his debut
pamphlet will be published by Crystal Clear Creators.
Wayne Burrows’ first collection Marginalia
(Peterloo) appeared in 2001, and the latest, a sequence based on Francis
Quarles’ Emblems, was published by Shoestring in 2009. His work recently
featured in Said & Done: New Writing from Brittle Star (2011) and he is
currently working on new material for artist Neville Gabie's The Orchard
Project. He took over editorship of Staple magazine in 2008 and lives in
Nottingham.
Jane Commane is Co-editor of Nine Arches
Press and Under the Radar magazine. She was born in Coventry in 1983 and lives
in Warwickshire. Her poetry has most recently featured in Best British Poetry
2011 (Salt) and also in Iota, Anon and Tears in the Fence magazines.
Mal Dewhirst is a poet, writer and film
maker. He is the lead poet on the Polesworth Poets Trail. His poems explore
themes relating to the spirit of place and have been published in magazines and
anthologies. He is currently working on his first full collection.
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