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Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, Presents:

Centre for Poetry and Poetics: Zoë Skoulding - Mendoza - Harriet Tarlo

CPP/UoS Launch of Cut Flowers 2, Guillemot Press, 2024 by Harriet Tarlo

27th of February, 6pm

Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2, University of Sheffield

Zoë Skoulding - Mendoza - Harriet Tarlo

Mendoza is a Northumbrian poet and researcher. They describe their creative practice as ‘frass’, from the German word fressen, which means "to devour"; collecting, hoarding and (metaphorically) consuming found entomological texts, they reconstitute these texts as poetry, mapping the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking, de-constructing & (re)constructing the ‘self’ through the language of insects as a necessary act of nonconformity.

Publications include: “WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths” collaboration with Peter Manson: Materials, 2018; “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside, 2015 and “Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug”, Contraband, 2014. Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now

Zoë Skoulding is a poet, performer, translator and literary critic with an interest in ecopoetics. Her sixth and latest collection of poems is A Marginal Sea (Carcanet Press, 2022), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, following Footnotes to Water (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. In 2020 she also published A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University and lives on Ynys Môn / Anglesey.

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry is published with Shearsman Press, Etruscan books and Guillemot Press. She collaborated for over ten years with the artist Judith Tucker, exhibiting widely here and abroad and publishing five artists’ books with Wild Pansy Press. Her most recent publications are Cut Flowers I and II (2021, 2024); with Judith Tucker, Saltwort (2022) and with Kym Martindale, Spillways (2022). She edited the influential anthology The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). She is a Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Event curated by Agnes Lehoczky.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: A reading from ‘The Last Unravellings of the Logoclast – Alan Halsey’

During this event there will be short readings from Alan Halsey’s posthumous collection by Geraldine Monk & friends.

Venue: Mappin Building, Mappin Hall, The University of Sheffield

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“Alan Halsey, much missed, always remembered, cherished here so extraordinarily beautifully by Geraldine Monk with this exquisite little collection with Free Poetry, lives on in the scribbles and the artful verses, moving, stimulating, so effortlessly on the button, every page a spirited wonder.” — Adam Piette for Blackbox Manifold

Alan Halsey, 1949-2022 ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, U.K. for twenty years and continued to work as a specialist bookseller and editor of West House Books when he moved to Sheffield in 1997. Alan was a poet, artist, publisher, editor, bibliophile, logoclast, scholar and humourist. What was thought to be his final publication Remarks of Uncertain Consequence was published by Five Seasons Press shortly before his death. We now know that it was not his grand finale. Some of his most notable publication amongst his prodigious output include Wittgenstein’s Devil (Stride 2000), Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005), Not Everything Remotely (Salt 2006) and Selected Poems 1988-2016 (Shearsman 2017). Five Seasons also published The Text of Shelley’s Death (1995) and Lives of the Poets with Martin Corless-Smith (2009). He edited the three volume Collected Poems of Bill Griffiths’ (Reality Street) and edited and introduced Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death’s Jest-Book (West House Books 2003). As a graphic artist he collaborated with Kelvin Corcoran, Steve McCaffery and Gavin Selerie; his solo text-graphic works include Memory Screen, shown at the Bury Text Festival in 2005, and In White Writing (Xexoxial 2012). With Martin Archer he co-directed and composed pieces for the Sheffield based antichoir Juxtavoices whose third album Warning: May Contain Notes was released on Discus Records in 2016. He was an Affiliated Poet at Sheffield University’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics.

Geraldine Monk’s poetry was first published in the 1970’s. Her major collections include Escafeld Hangings, West House Books (2005) and Interregnum, Creation Books(1995), Selected Poems Salt Publishing (2003) Ghost & Other Sonnets (2008). In 2012 she devised and edited Cusp: Recollections of Poetry in Transition, which she described as a ‘collective autobiography’, Shearsman Books. Her most recent collection They Who Saw the Deep was published in 2016 in the United States by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions.

She lives in Sheffield, England where she ran West House Books and its imprint Gargoyle Editions with her late husband Alan Halsey. She is a founding member of the Sheffield based antichoir Juxtavoices for which she has composed several pieces including We TalkThrough Walls, Midsummer Mummeries and Up & Down at Bishop’s House (with Alan Halsey and fellow collaborator Martin Archer). She is an affiliated poet to The Centre for Poetry and Poetics, University of Sheffield.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: A Reading with Karl Riordan, Pete Green, Steve Ely and Rory Waterman

5TH OF NOVEMBER THE DIAMOND, LT2, 6PM-8PM

Karl Riordan is a working-class writer based in Sheffield after stints around the UK & Ireland and considering his next move. 'The Tattooist's Chair' is his first poetry collection from Smokestack Press and just published ‘Tinikling’ drawing upon his links with the Philippines. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield. Daljit Nagra said, he writes of ‘[a]n ordinary world illuminated by a seeing-eye that persistently finds understated wonder.’ By day, he’s worked underage on building sites, was a barber, scrap-collector, teacher, Disability Support Worker, and a postal worker - and lasted a full week. He currently works as a Library Assistant for the Rotherham Library Service. He’s working on another collection of poems and a book of short stories.

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Pete Green is a poet and musician who has lived in Sheffield for 20 years. They grew up in the port of Grimsby, lovingly parented by a fish filleter and a lollipop lady. Living first on the edge of the land itself, and more recently near the edge of a largely post-industrial city, Pete has become preoccupied with the way places fade into each other and shift over time – and perhaps most of all with how people influence places and places influence people. These concerns are the driving force behind Pete's first full-length collection The Meanwhile Sites, published in 2022 by Salt and described by Helen Mort as "feral, elegant and beautifully observed". Much of the book was informed by visits to coastal locations, from Orkney to Dungeness, though these are juxtaposed with observations of big cities, including the temporary London housing estate built from shipping containers which inspired the collection's title. Pete has been active as a musician for far longer than as a poet, though these days they prefer to concentrate on poetry because there's less heavy stuff to carry. Encouraged by discovering the output of Sheffield's Longbarrow Press, Pete started to write poetry again in 2014 after a gap of more than 20 years. Their pamphlet Sheffield Almanac and short book Hemisphere were published by Longbarrow in 2017 and 2021 respectively. Other work by Pete has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the Brotherton Poetry Prize, whose chair of judges Simon Armitage praised Pete's "lyrical dexterity" and described them as "a poet alive to the challenges of the post-modernist era".

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Steve Ely is a poet, novelist, biographer and teacher of creative writing. He has published thirteen books or pamphlets of poetry, most recently Eely (Longbarrow Press, 2024) and Orasaigh (Broken Sleep Books, August, 2024). He’s currently working on a critical work, Ted Hughes’s Expressionism, a novel entitled The Quoz and an infinitely expanding, limitless poetic sequence, Terra Incognito.

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Rory Waterman's fourth and most recent collection is Come Here to This Gate, published by Carcanet in April this year. He lives in Nottingham.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: An Hour with Hilson;

Jeff Hilson is a poet, critic, editor and teacher. He has written five books of poetry: stretchers (Reality Street, 2006), Bird bird (Landfill, 2009), In The Assarts (Veer, 2010), Latanoprost Variations (Boiler House Press, 2017) and Organ Music (Crater Press, 2020). He edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008) and with David Grundy edited a special issue of The British and Irish Journal of Innovative Poetry on the work late Sean Bonney which came out in Autumn 2022. Hilson Hilson, a book of responses to Jeff’s own writing by his peers, edited by Richard Parker, is still available from Crater Press. Jeff runs Xing the Line poetry reading series in London with the poet Iris Colomb. Until recently he taught Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton.

Please note this is an in-person event and we would love you to be there but if you can't make it to Sheffield you can log in by no later than 5.50 on the following link: meet.google.com/mmh-kvgc-mdw

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics in Collaboration with Black Humanities Series Presents:

A Reading With Safia Khan, Inua Ellams and Imtiaz Dharker

Venue: The Diamond, LT2, The University of Sheffield, 6pm.

Safia Khan is a junior doctor and poet. Her debut collection (Too Much Mirch) was published in 2022 with Smith | Doorstop and won the New Poets Prize. She has been commissioned to write and deliver lectures in poetry for various universities and literary organisations, including The British Library, The University of Oxford, The Poetry Business, and the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine. Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies including The North, BATH MAGG, Poetry Wales, Introduction X: The Poetry Business Book of New Poets (New Poets List), We’re All in It Together: Poems for a disUnited Kingdom (Grist), Dear Life (Hive), Surfing the Twilight (Hive). -- Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and facilitates workshops in creative writing where he explores reoccurring themes in his work - Identity, Displacement and Destiny - in accessible, enjoyable ways for participants of all ages and backgrounds.

His awards include: Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2009, The Liberty Human Rights Award, The Live Canon International Poetry Prize, The Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition, Magma Poetry Competition, Winchester Poetry Prize, A Black British Theatre Award and The Hay Festival Medal for Poetry. He has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Tate Modern, Louis Vuitton, BBC Radio & Television. His poetry books include ‘Candy Coated Unicorn and Converse All Stars’ published Flipped Eye, 'The Wire-Headed Heathen' by Akashic Books, The Half God of Rainfall by 4th Estate and The Actual by Penned in The Margins. His plays include ‘Black T-shirt Collection’, ‘The 14th Tale’, ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ and ‘Three Sisters’ published by Oberon. He founded The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.) The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates poetry & hip hop, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates Poetry & Film. -- Imtiaz Dharker grew up a 'Muslim Calvinist' in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and video film-maker, and has published six books with Bloodaxe, Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997), I Speak for the Devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006), Leaving Fingerprints (2009), Over the Moon (2014) and Luck Is the Hook (2018). Her seventh, Shadow Reader, is published in 2024. All her poetry collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of the books; she is one of very few poet-artists to work in this way. She was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2014, presented to her by The Queen in spring 2015, and has also received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Over the Moon was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014. Her poems are on the British GCSE and A Level English syllabus, and she reads with other poets at Poetry Live! events all over the country to more than 35,000 students a year. She has had a dozen solo exhibitions of drawings in India, London, Leeds, New York and Hong Kong. She scripts and directs films, many of them for non-government organisations in India, working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children. In 2015 she appeared on the iconic BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs. In 2020 she was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University. She lives in London.

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The editors are pleased to announce the launch of issue 20 of the University of Sheffield's creative writing journal, The Sheffield Review, featuring work by students and staff in prose, poetry, art, hybrid and creative non-fiction on the theme Obsession & Perception. If you enjoy what you read, do please share with friends!

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23rd of May

The Diamond, LT2

5pm

The Sheffield Review is the University of Sheffield’s creative writing magazine and this year was the theme of Obsession & Perception.

This event is the launch of Issue 20 with a variety of works in poetry, prose, hybrid, translation and non-fiction published, each dipping into strange states of consciousness, gothic and feverish obsessiveness; this issue represents a selection of texts that dwell on the weird relations between what the senses experience and how the mind processes the world, mixing memory and desire.

Come along to a series of readings by the writers and to celebrate the launch of this issue with us in May.

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Call for Submissions / The SHEFFIELD REVIEW

Writers!

Call for submissions (is open now) for The Sheffield Review (formerly known as Route 57) - calling all University of Sheffield studens, staff, alumni and all sorts of affiliates:

“OBSESSION & PERCEPTION”

Issue 20

Call for submissions

The issue is open to writers and artists from or affiliated to the University of Sheffield. Deadline for submissions Friday 26th April, and we hope to launch mid-May.

Please read the guideline and eligibility carefully.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents:

SIMON PERRIL · PETER ROBINSON · FRANCES PRESLEY · SIMON SMITH

24th of April – 6.30pm: Diamond, LT2

This event is free; students, staff and public, all warmly welcome.

Simon Perril is a poet and collagist. His poetry publications include Two Duets with Occasion (Shearsman 2024), The Slip (Shearsman, 2020), In the Final Year of my 40s (Shearsman, 2018), Beneath (Shearsman, 2015) Archilochus on the Moon (Shearsman, 2013), Newton’s Splinter (Open House, 2012), Nitrate (Salt, 2010), A Clutch of Odes (Oystercatcher, 2009), and Hearing is Itself Suddenly a Kind of Singing (Salt, 2004). His poetics essay ‘Good to Think with: My Surrealism’, along with collages and poetry, have just appeared in Shuddhashar FreeVoice 37: https://shuddhashar.com/good-to-think-with-my-surrealism/

As a critic he has written widely on contemporary poetry, editing The Salt Companion to John James, and Tending the Vortex: The Works of Brian Catling. His article ‘On Metis: Or, what the Squid and the Octopus taught me about Practice Research’, appeared in Writing In Practice 7, 2021. He is Professor of Poetic Practice at De Montfort University, in Leicester. You can see Simon give an online reading/talk with accompanying visuals here: youtube.com/watch?v=bJoI30MzLGs

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Peter Robinson has published various books of aphorisms, fiction, and literary criticism. For some of his poetry volumes and translations he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His most recent collection of poems is Retrieved Attachments (Two Rivers Press) and The Collected Poems of Giorgio Bassani (translated with Roberta Antognini) published in New York by Agincourt Press. Return to Sendai: New & Selected Poems is due from MadHat Press in the USA in September 2024.

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Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, of Dutch-Javanese and English parents, in 1952. She grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset, and lives in London. She studied modern literature at the universities of East Anglia and Sussex. She worked as an information specialist in community development, and at the Poetry Library. She collaborated with artist Irma Irsara on a project about women’s clothing and the fashion trade, Automatic Cross Stitch (Other Press, 2000); and with poet Elizabeth James in Neither the One nor the Other (Form Books, 1999). The title sequence of Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 (Salt, 2004) was a response to 9/11 and IRA bombsites in London. Lines of Sight (Shearsman 2009) focuses on Exmoor’s Neolithic stone sites, which also feature in a collaboration with visual poet Tilla Brading, Stone Settings (Odyssey, 2010). An Alphabet for Alina, with artist Peterjon Skelt, exploits the lexical and visual possibilities of an alphabet for girls (Five Seasons, 2012). Halse for hazel (Shearsman, 2014) initiates a new poetic syntax of marginal trees and languages, continued in Sallow, (Leafe Press, 2016), with images by Irma Irsara. Ada Unseen (Shearsman, 2019) concerns Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician and computer visionary, who lived on Exmoor. It was also a collaboration with Tilla Brading, ADADADA (Odyssey, 2022). Collected Poems 1973-2020 was published in two volumes by Shearsman in 2022.

Black Fens Viral (2020-) is written on a slow train through East Anglia’s flat, agricultural, landscape of black peat, once marshland. ‘Viral’ refers both to Covid and to a text generator known as the Markov chain, and its strange rearrangement of text resembles a viral assault. The first part of Black Fens Viral was published as a Literary Pocket Book (2021) by Steven Hitchins.

Presley has written various essays and reviews, especially on innovative British women poets. She has co-translated the work of two Norwegian poets, Hanne Bramness and Lars Amund Vaage. Her work is in the anthologies Infinite Difference (Shearsman, 2010), Ground Aslant: radical landscape poetry (Shearsman, 2011), Out of Everywhere2 (Reality Street, 2015), Fractured Ecologies (EyeCorner, 2020) and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World (Dispatches, 2021). She has contributed to a collection of poetic autobiographies, Cusp (Shearsman, 2012) and its London based companion volume, Clasp (Shearsman, 2015).

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Simon Smith is a poet and translator living in London. He has previously published ten collections of poetry including a selected poems and a complete Catullus translation. His latest books are Last Morning (Parlor Press, U.S.A.) and Municipal Love Poems (Shearsman Books, U.K.) both appeared as companion volumes in 2022. 2022 also saw the publication of Source (Muscaliet Press), a collaboration with artist Felicity Allen and representation of Rimbaud’s ‘Le Bateau ivre’. He is presently working on a book-length series of prose poems, The Magic Lantern Slides. Between 1991 and 2007 he worked at the Poetry Library in London and taught creative writing and poetry at London South Bank University, The Open University, and the University of Kent from 2006 to 2022. He is Emeritus Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.

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recording available now:

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Recording of last night's readings with Ghazal Mosadeq and Pamenar Press, J. R. Carpenter, Safaa Fathy and Fran Lock is available now. Enjoy the dive.

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14th of March – 6.30pm: Diamond, University of Sheffield, Lecture Theatre 2.

Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, in collaboration with Black Humanities Series, Presents: FRAN LOCK · SAFAA FATHY · J. R. CARPENTER · GHAZAL MOSADEQ & Pamenar Press

Please note this is an in-person event but we will be running a livestream for those unable to attend in person, please log in by no later than 6.30pm: meet.google.com/bht-tzds-guy

Books will be on sale; payment by cash (preferred).

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Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent publisher of poetry, translation, hybrid and critical writing. Her own work has been published by gammm Press, Tamaas, Litmus Press, Firmament and Blackbox Manifold among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and Lecturer at University of Leeds. Her work asks questions about place, displacement, migration, colonialism, and climate across performance, print, and digital media. Her hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and featured in the the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library 2023. Her most recent collection Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast was published by Pamenar Press in 2023. https://luckysoap.com

Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and thirteen poetry collections, most recently 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Fran was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (2022-23), researching feral subjectivity through the lens of the medieval Bestiary. A collection of hybrid essays based on her research, titled Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects was published by Out-Spoken Press late last year. Fran is a Commissioning Editor and maid of all work at the radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She hates the Tories and all who sail in them. She lives in Kent.

Safaa Fathy was born in Egypt. She is a poet, essay writer and filmmaker. She had her PhD form the Sorbonne University and has been director of programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. Her plays Terror and Ordeal were prefaced by Jacques Derrida, with whom she signed a book, Tourner les mots (partly translated into English by Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania). Her book of poetry Revolution Goes Through Walls (SplitLevel Texts) was first published in Egypt, then in France, and in Brazil. Safaa Fathy’s experimental book of poems entitled Al Haschische is published by Pamenar s Press (London, directed by Ghazal Mosadeq2023). Where not to be Born, 2024 is published by Litumus Press NY. Safaa Fathy’s Name to the Sea, a film poem structured within a still frame, is being published along with the text in seven languages (Vanilla planifolia, Mexico City). Safaa Fathy has been writing a novel in English for the past five years.

The reading will be followed by a conversation with Pamenar Press, its editor, Ghazal Mosadeq and its writers run by Agnes Lehoczky.

Please note this is a free event (students, staff and public); all warmly welcome. There will be Pamenar books on sale before, during and after the readings.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents: Angelina D'Roza, Gareth Gavin and Helen Mort. All warmly welcome.

28th of Feb, The Diamond, LT2, 6.30pm.

Angelina D'Roza lives in Sheffield. She was a writing mentor with the Koestler Trust and writer in residence at Bank Street Arts, collaborating with artists, writers, photographers. Most recently her work appears in Blackbox Manifold and Shearsman Press. Her debut collection Envies the Birds was published by Longbarrow Press in 2016. The Blue Hour is Angelina's new collection and was released by Longbarrow at the end of 2023.

H. Gareth Gavin is the author of Never Was: A Novel Without A World (Cipher Press, 2023), which has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and of Midland (Penned in the Margins, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. His short story, 'Home Death', was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. He is also interested in writing that moves between the creative and the critical, has written a monograph on free indirect style, and currently teaches a course on trans studies. He was born in Birmingham and lives in Manchester, where he works in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.

Helen Mort was born in Sheffield and grew up in Chesterfield. She is the author of three poetry collections with Chatto & Windus. Her most recent, ‘The Illustrated Woman’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2022. She has also published a novel and a non-fiction book ‘A Line Above The Sky’ about motherhood and mountaineering. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

The readings will be followed by some social mingling time with the writers, an opportunity to talk to the three poets, buy books - Longbarrow Press with have a small book stall, ask questions and so on....

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The Apparition Conglomerate – so dubbed- are a group of current PhD Creative Writing Students from the University of Sheffield. Their work spans from the poetic and the experimental to more traditional forms of fiction. No genre or creative space is left untouched or unexamined, and you will see that tonight. Its members are all entrenched within the writing community, and in various stages of their writing careers. On the night we will be hearing from: AJ Moore, Beverly Thomas, Leonie Martin, Catherine Greenwood, Ella Ruby Self, Llew Watkins, Megan Meredith, Mark Hackett and Heather Beier.

7th of February, The Diamond, LT7, 6.30pm.

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Tuesday 12th December 2023

Diamond LT2, 17:30-19:00

On December 12th, 1979 NATO with its Double-Track Decision opted to deploy more medium-range nuclear ballistic missiles in Western Europe. in June 1980, RAF Greenham Common was selected as the main British base for the United States Air Force's nuclear armed Cruise Missiles. Some missiles were deployed at RAF Molesworth but the majority of the missiles were deployed at RAF Greenham Common.

A Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was established in protest at the deployment of cruise missiles in 1981, and the camp lasted 19 years. The most famous actions of the Peace Camp were the Embrace the Base / Reflect the Base actions where thousands of women held hands and encircled the base on December 12th in 1982 and 1983 – 50,000 women in 1983! The date was chosen as a protest anniversary remembering and condemning the Double-Track Decision. This year is the 40th anniversary of the 12th December Reflect the Base actions at the camp in 1983.

         We will be celebrating the Peace Camp with a series of readings of the protest poetry written by the women at the camp and by feminist poets in the 1980s. We welcome one of the most powerful voices of that decade, the incomparable poet Geraldine Monk. Alongside her will be the activist-artist Michael Sanders who will be talking about his Molesworth and Greenham Common work. Students, staff and writers will be reading a selection of the protest and feminist poems of the early 1980s written at the camp or inspired by it, introduced by PhD researcher Isobel Cook. 

All are welcome to this free evening of Greenham Common poetry.

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents a reading with Allen Fisher and Kelvin Corcoran

9TH OF NOVEMBER 2023 – 6.30pm: Diamond, LT2

Poet, painter, and art historian Allen Fisher has over 160 single-author publications, with his two most recent artist’s books Black Pond (2020) and proceeds in the garden, after Dante’s Paradiso. Fisher worked in the City Lead Works from 1962 until the ’70s, performed with Fluxus in Britain in the ’70s, and studied physics, human physiology, drawing and color, and art history at Goldsmiths and Essex. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of the journal Spanner and Spanner Editions and co-publisher of Aloes Books, New London Pride, and Edible Magazine.

Kelvin Corcoran grew up in the English Midlands the son of an alcoholic Irish father and loving mother. As a child he benefited from free school milk and the family allowance, which was essential. By virtue of a good teacher, he went to university and read poetry. His first book was published in 1985. He was a teacher for 33 years and then for a while a voluntary worker in the NHS. After the discovery of poetry, the second great change in his life was meeting his wife, Melanie. His work belongs to no school and has been consistently praised for its lyricism and intelligence, commended by the Poetry Society and the Forward Prize committee and commissioned by the Arts Council and Medicine Unboxed. He lives in Brussels, Greece and Penwith in Cornwall.