#angelina d'roza

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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....

Event Link

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Recordings available now:

Part 1

Part 2

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Outports, (digital supplement), Longbarrow Press, Sheffield, 2020 (pdf here). Feat. James Caruth, Fay Musselwhite, Matthew Clegg, Alistair Noon, J.R. Carpenter, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Andrew Hirst, Kelvin Corcoran, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Pete Green, Angelina D’Roza, Brian Lewis, Chris Jones

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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Angelina D'Roza

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Angelina D’Roza

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews

I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger. The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others…

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics, BacktoFront Autumn 2021 Readings Series No1: Readings by Angelina D’Roza, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo. Intro by A. Lehoczky. Event is planned to be livestreamed.

Angelina D'Roza lives in Sheffield. Her first collection, Envies the Birds, was published in 2016 by Longbarrow Press and was followed by her pamphlet, Correspondences, in 2019. A new collection is forthcoming from Longbarrow autumn 2022.

Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). He has poems forthcoming in Stand, Adjacent Pineapple and elsewhere.

Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic interested in landscape, ecology, environment and place. Her single author poetry publications are with Shearsman, Etruscan and Guillemot Books. Her academic essays appear in book collections and journals as diverse as Chicago Review; Sociologia Ruralis; Critical Survey; Classical Receptions; Jacket2 and Journal of Ecocriticism. She has collaborated and exhibited widely with the artist Judith Tucker and their artists’ books together are published with Wild Pansy Press. She is the editor of The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011), special features on ecopoetics for How2 and Plumwood Mountain and on Cross Multi Inter Trans - disciplinary practice for Green Letters. She is Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University.

Just a quick reminder for this event coming up on the 19th. We have now with generous IT colleagues' help managed to set up a livestream version whih will run parallel the 'real' event. If you are not based in Sheffield or are house-bound otherwise and interested please register on: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../centre-for-poetry-and... Otherwise we would love to actually see you there in person if you are keen and if possible.