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[with apologies for cross-posting] The first in Shearsman's 2010 Reading Series takes place on Tuesday, 19 January at 7:30 pm, featuring Tom Lowenstein & John Welch Details of the recent collections that will be officially launched on the evening: http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/lowensteinMura.html and of Alan Wearne's remarkable verse-novel, published last year: http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/welch_VE.html Biographical details may be found here: http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/lowenstA.html http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/welchA.html The venue is Swedenborg Hall Swedenborg House 20/21 Bloomsbury Way London WC1A 2TH Admission is free. The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required. Further details here of the venue: http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html Subsequent readings -- all at the same venue -- will take place on 2 February 2010 (Sarah Law and another reader tbc), 10 March (launch of the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries from UK Women Poets, with readings from several of the poets featured in the book edited by Carrie Etter); 20 April (Jaime Robles and Lars Amund Vaage); 4 May (Camille Martin & Alasdair Paterson); 1 June (readers tbc). An additional reading is scheduled for 2 March at a venue to be confirmed, at which the Mexican poet Elsa Cross will read with two of her translators, Ruth Fainlight & Anamarķa Crowe-Serrano. _____________________________________________ Tony Frazer Shearsman Books Ltd 58 Velwell Road Exeter EX4 4LD England Tel / Fax: (+44) (0) 1392-434511 http://www.shearsman.com/ _____________________________________________