Generation Txt
Birmingham MACFriday 1 June
MAC, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH
Tickets £5/£4 – available from www.macarts.co.uk and 0121 440 3838
"Get ready to experience literature from the frontline in a whirlwind journey from scars to scrap-bins; from tea smuggling to suicide.
Following the success of acclaimed new poetry anthology Generation Txt, penned in the margins is taking the six gifted young poets featured in the book on a national tour to fourteen venues.
Hand-picked from a nationwide search for writing talent, the poets include former Northern Young Writer of the Year Emma McGordon and celebrated performance poet Inua Ellams, as well as Joe Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine has just been snapped up by Hamish Hamilton. Natural Sciences graduate Laura Forman, Midlands-born creative writing student Abigail Oborne and experimental poet and text artist James Wilkes complete the bill.
Hailed by distinguished poet and critic Roddy Lumsden as 'a vital cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish' and by the TES as 'a creative ideas manual', the Generation Txt tour will be a must-see event for anyone interested in the future of literature."
Supported by Arts Council England
www.myspace.com/generationtxt
www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk
Tour dates
May 17 – Great Torrington Plough Arts Centre
May 18 – Swindon Festival of Literature
May 19 – Stroud ArtSpace
May 22 – London Bloomsbury Theatre
May 24 – Maidenhead Norden Farm Centre for the Arts
May 25 – Oxford Oxford Playhouse
May 26 – Manchester Contact Theatre
May 28 – Liverpool The Pilgrim
May 29 – Durham Gala Theatre
May 30 – Newcastle The Lit & Phil
June 1 – Birmingham MAC
June 2 – Norwich Norwich Arts Centre
June 3 – Cambridge JE Wilson Drama Studio
June 5 – Brighton Earth & Stars
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