poetrynites@thebookcase

on Saturday May 13th
with Rosie Garland, Jodie Hollander
and Charlotte Wetton

Same time (7 – 9 pm)
Same price (£6 with wine and refreshments)
Same fantastic poetry lined up at Hebden Bridge’s The Book Case!

The Book Case
29 Market St
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 6EU
01422 845353
www.bookcase.co.uk

Rosie Garland might be better known as Mslexia Prize winning author of The Palace of Curiosities and Vixen, but she is also a poet who skillfully treads the line between performance and the lyric. Her new collection, As In Judy (Flapjack Press, 2016) is as inventive and politically engaged as her previous body of work, and ‘imagines the inner and outer landscapes we all inhabit with eloquence and grace’.

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Jodie Hollander is an American poet visiting the UK to launch her first full collection of poems, My Dark Horses, from hot new poetry imprint, Pavilion Poetry. Interspersed with versions of Rimbaud, and always alert to the surreal comedy of the human condition, these powerful and immediate poems chart with huge passion, musicality and insight a complex journey towards familial understanding and reconciliation.

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Witty and compelling, Charlotte Wetton’s debut pamphlet, I Refuse to Turn into a Hatstand (Calder Valley Poets), shows a young poet skillfully in charge of her material. Her spoken word album Body Politic was released in 2012.

and we will make love
on the stone flags, on the dirt of the yard,
until dusk falls, salt stiffens on cooling skin,
and the cicadas sing and sing until death.’

(Charlotte Wetton ‘In Mexico’)

Tickets in advance or on the door from The Book Case, 29 Market Street, Hebden Bridge. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A Flood of Words

18 February
at 19:30–22:30

Ladies and Gentlemen please show your support for the Calder Valley flood appeal by making your way in an orderly fashion to The Fox and Goose public house, in Hebden Bridge (7 Heptonstall Road, HX7 6AZ) for 'A Flood of Words'. A spoken word open mic night with two award winning and unmissable guests. Namely Rosie Garland and Rose Condo. The whole evening will be seamlessly compered by Winston Plowes and the incomparable Geneviève Walsh.

Please arrive at 7:30 for a prompt start at 8pm :-)

4min open mic spots will be allocated on the night.

(Artwork by Madhuri, promotion generously supported by the Print Bureau, Hebden Bridge, venue and PA by kind arrangement of Cayn and The Fox).

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival – theatre event and reading from The Palace of Curiosities

Cost: £8 (£6) To book advance tickets, click the link below

Roll up! Listen to poet Rosie Garland read from her bewitching first novel. Marvel at the delights of a Victorian fairground curiosity sideshow!

Event website and to book tickets - click this link

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival – creative writing workshop

Cost: Free but BOOK IN ADVANCE (20 places) - click the link below

Suitable for 12+

Ok, so you've already read out your poetry on stage... or you are getting up the courage to do so... but how can you make it (even more) memorable?

This workshop uses practical techniques to help you make your mark on stage. Expert advice from our top performance poet on performing and staging your work.

To reserve a free place - click here for information