Please join us for a superb evening of poetry, just under a month away.
The Other Room 37 – Linda Black, Nikolai Duffy and Marcus Slease
February 6th 2013, 7pm
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Free entry
Linda Black is a poet and a visual artist. She was awarded the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship and in 2006 won the New Writing Ventures Poetry Award. The beating of wings (Hearing Eye, 2006) was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. She received an Arts Council Writer’s Award in 2007. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, most recently The Line Is Not For Turning – An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (ed. Jane Monson, Cinnamon Press 2011). Her prose poem collections are Inventory and Root (Shearsman, 2008 & 2011): The Son of a Shoemaker (collaged prose poems and pen and ink illustrations based on the early life of Hans Andersen ) was published by Hearing Eye in November 2012. She is co-editor of Long Poem Magazine www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk
Nikolai Duffy is a lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and the founding editor of Like This Press. He has published various essays and reviews on experimental writing, contemporary poetry, small press publishing, and sculpture, and is the author of Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop (Shearsman, 2013).Recent poetry has appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Eratio, Ink Sweat & Tears, Shadowtrain, Shearsman, Stride Magazine, and Turbulence. His chapbook, the little shed of various lamps, was published by The Red Ceilings Press in September 2011.
Marcus Slease was born in Portadown, N. Ireland. He has lived all over the world as a teacher of English as a foreign language. Recent fiction and poetry have appeared (or are forthcoming) in magazines such as: Metazen, Housefire, So and So Magazine, Spork, InDigest, Gesture, NAP, Forklift Ohio, and Little White Lies. His most recent book, Mu (dream) So (Window), is available from Poor Claudia. He lives in London and blogs at The House Of Zabka.
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