Monday, September 17th, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE
The Western,
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA
Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear
Creators present Leicester Shindig!
Bi-monthly Mondays at
Guest Poets: Sarah Jackson, Angela France,
Rory Waterman and Daniel Sluman
Open mic and poetry night - please sign up
on the door for slots.
Sarah Jackson’s pamphlet, Milk (Pighog,
2008), was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and her work appears
in various magazines and anthologies, including Voice Recognition: 21
Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009). She is Lecturer in English at
Nottingham Trent University. Pelt (Bloodaxe, 2012), is her first collection.
Daniel Sluman is a 25 year old poet based
in Gloucestershire. Poems have been published in Cadaverine, Popshot, Shit
Creek Review, & Orbis. He is the poetry editor of Dead Ink, and is on the
editorial board for Iota. His debut collection, Absence has a weight of its own,
is out now through Nine Arches Press.
Angela France has had poems
published in many leading journals and has been anthologised a number of
times. Her third collection, Hide, is forthcoming in 2013 from Nine Arches
Press. Angela is features editor of Iota and an editor of The Shit Creek Review.
She also runs a monthly poetry café in Cheltenham, ‘Buzzwords’.
Rory Waterman’s first collection, Tonight
the Summer's Over, is forthcoming with Carcanet Press in 2013. Recent poems
have appeared in the TLS, The Best British Poetry 2012 (Salt, 2012), New
Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and elsewhere. He also co-edits New Walk magazine.
He was born in Belfast in 1981.
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