I am delighted to announce the launch of ‘As In Judy’ – my new poetry collection with Flapjack Press. It’s my first solo poetry publication since ‘Everything Must Go’ (Holland Park Press 2012). I’m really excited.
I wish to express heartfelt gratitude to Char March for her generous editorial input, without which this collection would be far weaker.
And to Ruth Fainlight, for her inspiring suggestion that ‘As In Judy’ would make a great title.
Both John Hyatt and David Hoyle have made blushingly complimentary comments about the poems.
“The reason I love Rosie’s work so much is that she provides food for thought. She addresses issues that need addressing, and imagines the inner and outer landscapes we all inhabit with eloquence and grace. Shed your light, Rosie.” David Hoyle 2016
“You spend all that time trying to understand the world, its family relationships,
friendships, social systems through a serial adventure of episodes mundane and
or memorable. You spend all that time trying to fit into the human. Then, you are
propelled into realisation through a life-threatening disease. Travelling not
outward into the world but inward to the beating heart of the matter, you dive
deep into the DNA. You are the resplendent there. You are the clicking queen of
the insects. When you dress again in flesh and skin, you go amongst the sleeping
humans and new and glittering worlds are left in your wake. Welcome to Rosie!”
John Hyatt 2016
The March Violets 2013
2013 saw the Made Glorious tour of the UK and Europe – to celebrate the successful PledgeMusic album 'Made Glorious'.
In 2012 THE MARCH VIOLETS recorded their first Album financed solely by fans through Pledge Music. To accompany its release we played some of the new material as well as old classics at the following venues:
26.10.2013 Hebden Bridge – The Trades Club, headlining the Ted Hughes Festival
27.10.2013 Preston - The Continental, as part of John Peel week / Un-Peeled & Dark Peel. With Special Guests: Flesh For Lulu, John Hyatt (Three Johns), The Inca Babies.
1.11.2013 London – Club Antichrist at Club Colosseum, Halloween Party http://clubantichrist.com/ac/
3.11.2013 Whitby Goth Weekend / DV8 - The Coliseum
Special Guests: Partly Faithful, Luxury Stranger.
8.11.2013 Corallo Rock Club, Scandiano, Italy: with many thanks to Grotesque productions & Ascension magazine!
10.11.2013 Newcastle – Trillians. With special guests Berlin Black and Jordan Reyne.
15.11.2013 Nottingham – Spanky Van Dykes. Thanks to DV8 promotions! Special Guests: Simon York (from Luxury Stranger), Jordan Reyne, Witch Hunt. Batronic Aftershow till 2am with DJ Heathen and DJ GlitterHawk
17.11.2013 Edinburgh – Bannermans. Special Guests: Dead Eyes Opened.
22.11.2013 02 Academy, London. Special Guests: The Last Cry
24.11.2013 The Brudenell, Leeds – with very special guests Chameleons Vox plus + Witch Hunt + Free Aftershow
Club Big @The Boo
The Boo
679 Bacup Rd,
Rawtenstall
BB4 7HB
7pm till late
Tickets £6 Advance £7 Door
Club Big
John Hyatt brings Club Big to the Boo.
For two months in 2017 as part of his Rock Art exhibition at HOMEmcr, the polymath professor, musician and artist, created an entire club, complete with neon sign, house band, bar and a truly diverse bill of acts. For one night only Club Big re-opens its doors. Confirmed already are wondrous wordsmith Rosie Garland and Spirit Level - Mark Hoyle (Dub sex); from the grime of Little Ireland, through a gleaming steel and polished glass presents and onwards.
Adults only
The Time-Travelling Suffragettes at ‘Rock Art’
HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place,
First Street,
Manchester M15 4FN
6-9pm
Entry price: Free
Join us for an appearance of The Time-Travelling Suffragettes at Club BIG, a pop-up music club and performance space that hosts a range of special gigs, performances and events.
Fri 17th Feb 2017
As part of his major new solo exhibition Rock Art at HOME in Manchester, artist John Hyatt will host Club BIG, a pop-up club presenting live music, poetry and performance.
Open 6pm-9pm every Friday with a fully licensed bar and MC'd by the artist himself, Club BIG will also serve as a debating chamber and live art space and aims to offer 'an unfolding and inquisitive symphony on the invisible threads that connect us and the world'.
‘Rock Art’ Preview night
HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place,
First Street,
Manchester M15 4FN
Entry price: Free
Join us for a preview of John Hyatt’s new exhibition Rock Art, featuring Club BIG, a pop-up music club and performance space that hosts a range of special gigs, performances and events.
Fri 3 Feb
Jon Langford with Barkley McKay
Rosie Garland
Tom Hyatt
The Three Johns
As part of his major new solo exhibition Rock Art at HOME in Manchester, artist John Hyatt will host Club BIG, a pop-up club presenting live music, poetry and performance.
The centrepiece of the show, Club BIG will welcome artists including performance poet Rosie Garland and Hyatt's own art-rock band The Three Johns. Open 6pm-9pm every Friday with a fully licensed bar and MC'd by the artist himself, Club BIG will also serve as a debating chamber and live art space and aims to offer 'an unfolding and inquisitive symphony on the invisible threads that connect us and the world'.
‘As In Judy’ book launch
7th December, 6-8pm (doors 5.30)
Manchester Central Library,Media Lounge
St Peter’s Square
Manchester
M2 5 PD
Free event
With special guests Lisa Matthews & Genevieve Walsh!
‘As In Judy’
It’s how I introduce myself when meeting people for the first time: ‘Hi, I’m Rosie Garland. As in Judy’.
My next novel isn’t out until June 2017, but in December 2016 I have this new poetry collection with Flapjack Press. It’s my first solo poetry publication since 2012. I’m really excited: I’ve had wonderful editing from Char March, and both John Hyatt and David Hoyle have said made blushingly complimentary comments about the poems.
http://www.flapjackpress.co.uk/page9.htm
Sunday October 27th
Tel - 01772 499425
The March Violets with Special Guests: Flesh For Lulu, John Hyatt (Three Johns), The Inca Babies.
That is correct.
3 Peel sessions between 82 and 84 means The March Violets are well-qualified to play 'Un-Peeled' and we're delighted to have secured their only North West date on their Autumn 'Made Glorious' tour.
Please note, early doors 6.30pm!
Tickets on sale direct
https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/get-dates/rid/VZ7SR44K/eid/181252/language/en/format/html
Event Page
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Thrilled that 'Now that you are not-you' is Guardian Poem of the Week!
"A very modern, secular kind of elegy reflects on death with a surprising lightness" - Carol Rumens
"This week’s poem is from What Girls Do in the Dark, the latest collection by the multi-talented Rosie Garland. It stands alone, while extending the narrative of the short poem that immediately precedes it, Stargazer. The setting of Stargazer is a hospital bedside, where the dying patient’s visitor must navigate “the vertigo tilt / of old words like spread, outlook, time.” That poem ends with the metaphors that will be reconfigured in Now that you are not-you. “Doctors / murmur the names of new constellations / - astrocyte, hippocampus, glioblastoma – and calculate / the growth of nebulae; this rising tide of cells that climbs / the Milky Way of the spine to flood your head with light.”
Read the whole article here...
7.30pm GMT
Join us to celebrate the launch of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland, with guests Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys
About this Event
Join Rosie Garland, plus guest writers Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys to celebrate the publication of Rosie's new poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark.
Thursday 12th November 7.30pm (GMT)
This event will be streamed live & can be viewed now, through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Z7yq1Ey_U&feature=youtu.be
I thought it wasn't possible to feel any more thrilled about joining Nine Arches Press
- then I see the stunning cover of my new poetry collection, 'What Girls Do In The Dark'.
Out October 2020
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/what-girls-do-in-the-dark.html
Dystopian classics to modern crime - Nine must-read Manchester novels
“Fantasy, romance, sci-fi, comedy…we’ve got a genre for everyone
There’s a very good reason Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature, as we highlighted before its bid to join the prestigious network in 2017. Innovative publishers, diverse bookshops and a lively events scene make it an unrivalled literary melting pot.
Rosie Garland’s The Night Brother is our historical highlight
Ever the entertainer, Rosie Garland sung in post-punk band The March Violets and now performs ‘twisted cabaret’ as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. But she’s also a literary maverick with an array of essays, short stories and poetry to her name (much of which she also reads at spoken words events citywide) and three acclaimed novels. Her latest, The Night Brother, navigates themes of gender and identity through two siblings in Victorian Manchester. Rich and Gothic, it’s a must for fans of Angela Carter.”
https://confidentials.com/manchester/dystopian-classics-to-modern-crime-nine-must-read-manchester-novels
An unexpected & encouraging piece of news!
Northern Soul has selected 'The Night Brother' as a Best Northern Read
Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul writer
“In days that can seem desolate and uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for windows into a better world and, ultimately, joyfully, that is exactly the view that The Night Brother by Rosie Garland affords. Not that its window seat is cheaply achieved. Far from it.
Rooted with disbelief-suspending specificity in Manchester at the end of the 19th century, Garland’s novel blossoms compellingly from the exquisite simplicity of its central conceit, one which owes the tiniest debt to the 1971 horror film Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. Edie and her brother Gnome are joined in a very particular symbiosis, so that their singular sibling rivalry threatens to be the undoing of both. Themes that could be leaden in other hands emerge from the premise with a beautiful lightness of touch, developing into a persuasive fable of inclusivity and self-acceptance. This is a book that sings a rainbow at its end.”
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-best-northern-reads-part-one/