I’m reading at ‘Ride the Word VI’, Weds 18th February, 7.30 for 7.45pm at Holborn Library. Me and Vincent de Souza, Elizabeth Baines, Katy Evans-Bush and Jay Merill.
Katy is a fellow Salt poet. I’m going to read on of hers, and vice versa.
32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA
*… When I think all hope is gone / When I walk along High Holborn / I think of you with nothing on.’ (‘Celia Celia’ by Adrian Mitchell)
An interview about poetry, with tartan and muffins … http://nattyknitter.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-word-weaver-an-interview-with-poet-julia-bird/
I’m reading at Utter! on 10th February. Utter Heartbreak, this one is, which is nicely seasonal in advance of Valentine’s Day. 7.30 at the Green Note Club, 106 Camden Parkway, London NW1, more details here … http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102538500230
I shall read sad, sad love poems … but probably slip in a cheery little something to lift the mood at the end. Tears in the beer, followed by a stripy cocktail with a plastic monkey on the side of the glass. Poetic equivalent of.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/culture/arts/classics_in_the_making
He writes ‘Among many interesting books in a rich year were Paul Batchelor’s The Sinking Road (Bloodaxe), Peter Bennet’s The Glass Swarm (Flambard), Julia Bird’s Hannah And The Monk (Salt) and Alistair Elliot’s The Real Poems (Shoestring). There’s also The Lost Leader (Faber) by Mick Imlah, Life On Earth (Gallery) by Derek Mahon, Stephen Romer’s Yellow Studio (Carcanet), Anne Rouse’s The Upshot: New And Selected Poems (Bloodaxe) and The Land Of Green Ginger (Salt) by Anthony Rowland.’
