As part of the London South Bank Centre’s Festival of Food, I’ll be reading food poems with Roddy Lumsden, Tim Wells, Roisin Tierney, Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon in a tent by the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 20th September between 12.15ish and 1.45ish. There will be 40+ Slow Food stalls in the Festival - from rare-breed meats, specialist cheeses, Middle-Eastern mezze and real ale to all-natural candy floss and organic hot chocolate shots, free-range hog roast, slow burgers and hot dogs, native oysters, game pies and spicy Indian delights. Bunny delish, as my ex-flatmate’s ex-girlfriend would have said …
More details here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=59f
More-ish – seconds of food poems September 16, 2008
Hannah and the Monk – out now September 14, 2008
Hannah and the Monk by Julia Bird
It’s out now. Look at it, how lovely. It has British racing green endpapers, which you won’t be able to see unless you hold an actual copy in your hand. You can get it cheaply from www.amazon.co.uk, worthily from www.saltpublishing.com or direct from me if you like and I’ll write you a nice note inside. Email me for details …
Here’s a picture Tim Wells took of me standing on a chair at its launch party – http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=783403&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=538007151&id=514911551
The Shuffle Anthology launch September 14, 2008
I’m in the about-to-be published Shuffle anthology with a new poem called ‘This Does Me For Snow’ which is about … settling, I think. I’ll give it a whirl at the launch for the book which is on Saturday 27th September at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden, London, 7.30pm. Fellow anthologees are Ahren Warner, Camellia Stafford, Tim Wells, Kate Miller, Orlanda Marsden, Roddy Lumsden, Kate Kilalea, Luke Heeley, Amy Key, Diana Pooley, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Heather Phillipson, Michael McKimm, Imogen Robertson. More details here http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24784768990
