Saturday, 26th November, 2011, 7.30pm, £4/£3 (concessions)
Lee Rosy’s
tea room,
17 Broad Street,
Nottingham
NG1 3AJ
(opposite Broadway cinema)
Six Happenstance poets, from across the
Midlands, Scotland, and as far away as Spain, will be gathering for a reading
downstairs at Lee Rosy’s.
The
poets are Helena Nelson (editor of Happenstance Press), Ross Kightly, Marilyn
Ricci, Robin Vaughan-Williams, DA Prince, and Matthew Stewart, who will be in
the country to launch his new pamphlet, Inventing Truth.
Helena will also be
adjudicating the Nottingham Open Poetry Competition at 2.45pm at the Mechanics
Institute (3 North Sherwood Street, NG1 4AX).
Happenstance is an
independent poetry press based in Scotland that publishes poets from all over
the UK. It specialises in pamphlets, and in 2010 won the Michael Marks Award
for Poetry Pamphlets for publishers. Ali Smith, one of the judges, commented: "HappenStance proved outstanding in the elegance, thoughtfulness and clarity of
their design, and the infectious interaction, open-mindedness and energy of
their publishing ethos".
Happenstance also produces Sphinx, an
indispensable source of poetry pamphlet reviews.
More information is available from the zqblog, or visit the
Facebook event page.
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