Friday, 25th October, 2013, 7pm-9pm, £5
Quaker Meeting House,
16 Queens Road,
Leicester
LE2 1WP
Includes tea, cake, books for sale &
live poetry and a fine start to the weekend.
Mario Petrucci, Claire Trévien, Matt
Merritt and Alistair Noon.
An evening of poetry compered by Nine
Arches Press editor, Jane Commane.
Claire Trévien is an anglo-breton poet. Her
first collection, The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), was longlisted
in the Guardian First Book Award. Her poetry appears in numerous magazines and
anthologies including Best British Poetry 2012 and The Forward Book of
Poetry 2013. She edits Sabotage Reviews, Verse Kraken, and Penning Perfumes.
Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and
grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in
Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and
translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small
presses. Earth Records (Nine Arches Press) is his first full-length collection.
Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife
journalist from Leicester. His third collection, The Elephant Tests, is out now
from Nine Arches, and previous publications are hydrodaktulopsychic-harmonica
(Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (Arrowhead, 2008), and Making The Most Of The
Light (HappenStance, 2005). He blogs at polyolbion.blogspot.co.uk
Mario Petrucci's work is “vivid, generous
and life-affirming” (Envoi). His most recent poems, inspired by Black Mountain
and hailed as "modernist marvels" (Poetry Book Society), embrace
contemporary issues of searing social and personal relevance via a distinctive
combination of innovation and humanity. Whether exploring the tragedies of
Chernobyl (Heavy Water, 2004) or immersing himself in heart-rending invention (i
tulips, 2010), Petrucci aspires to "Poetry on a geological scale” (Verse).
His latest collection is anima (Nine Arches Press, 2013).
No comments:
Post a Comment