Kate Ashton & Mark Weiss Reading
Tuesday 10 May, 7:30pm
Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
Bios:
Kate Ashton
Born in Beith in 1948, Kate Ashton trained as a nurse in Edinburgh before moving to London and journalism on Nursing Times. From 1979 until 2003 she lived, worked and wrote in The Netherlands, publishing full-length fiction and non-fiction. She has translated widely from Dutch and Flemish; reviews, and reports as expert assessor for PEN Translates! Her memoir, Losing Eric Gill’s Eden, is forthcoming from Frances Boutle Publishers. She lives in Nairn, on the Moray Firth. Who By Water (Shearsman Books) is her first full collection.
Mark Weiss
Mark Weiss builds complex mosaics out of broken fragments of a world both familiar and surprising. “Put two things next to each other,” he has written, “and a third thing happens.”
As Luck Would Have It (Shearsman Books) is his tenth book and his fourth major collection. He has also edited anthologies of Mexican and Cuban poetry and translated several books of poems from Spanish. His study overlooks Manhattan’s only forest.
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