William Letford reads his poem 'Circles' during an event with fellow poets Evan Jones and Julith Jedamus at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester on Wednesday 10 October 2012 as part of the Manchester Literature Festival. His acclaimed debut, BEVEL, is available now in paperback and ebook formats.
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. He has received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary which allowed him to spend three months in the mountains of northern Italy helping to restore a medieval village. He has an M.Litt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.
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Evan Jones reads his poem 'Constantine and Arete - An Autobiography (13)' during an event with fellow poets William Letford and Julith Jedamus at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester on Wednesday 10 October 2012 as part of the Manchester Literature Festival.
Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).
To find out more about Evan and his poetry, please go to www.carcanet.co.uk
William Letford reads his poem 'The Bevvy' during an event with fellow poets Evan Jones and Julith Jedamus at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester on Wednesday 10 October 2012 as part of the Manchester Literature Festival. His acclaimed debut, BEVEL, is available now in paperback and ebook formats.
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. He has received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary which allowed him to spend three months in the mountains of northern Italy helping to restore a medieval village. He has an M.Litt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.
To find out more about William and his poetry, please go to www.carcanet.co.uk
Julith Jedamus reads 'In Memory of the Photographer Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, Who Died of Pneumonia after Walking through a Blizzard Near Jericho, Vermont, December 23, 1931' from her new collection, THE SWERVE, which is available now in paperback. Julith read with fellow poets William Letford and Evan Jones at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester on Wednesday 10 October 2012 as part of the Manchester Literature Festival.
Julith Jedamus grew up in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado. For the past sixteen years she has lived in London. She began writing novels, switched to short stories, and now writes verse, some of which was anthologised in the bestselling NEW POETRIES V (Carcanet, 2011). Her first collection, The Swerve, was published by Carcanet in May 2012.
To find out more about Julith Jedamus and her poetry, go to www.carcanet.co.uk.
Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, reads the title poem from her latest collection, ICE (October 2012), which is now available in paperback and ebook formats. The reading took place in Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester, on National Poetry Day 4 October 2012. For more information on Gillian Clarke's book, please go to www.carcanet.co.uk.
Jon Glover reads the eponymous poem from his latest collection, GLASS IS ELASTIC, at the launch on 24 September 2012 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. That evening also saw the launch of THE REASONER by Jeffrey Wainwright and PARALOGUES by Evan Jones.
GLASS IS ELASTIC is a book of surfaces and reflections, mirrors and windows. What do we see -- what do we know -- in a world experienced through lenses and screens? 'Don't blink. Nobody's / looking, nobody's seeing.' Jon Glover explores the treachery and creativity inherent in the eye's lens, in the eyeball itself, in a microscope or camera, in a telescope, in the mysterious properties of glass, malleable as time itself. We translate the shape of the world into maps, pixels, mathematical data; into stories that change in the telling.
A central poem sequence links medicine, war and vision in the glass slides assembled in a pathology lab for research into narcolepsy after the First World War, nerves and brains laid bare as evidence, as names on a war memorial.
In language that combines scientific rigour with the supple everyday, Glover surprises the reader into looking, into seeing the connections in a beautiful, frightening world.
Jeffrey Wainwright reads the 79th poem from his new collection, THE REASONER, at the booklaunch on 24 September 2012 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. This event also launched GLASS IS ELASTIC by Jon Glover, and PARALOGUES by Evan Jones.
In a series of ninety-five poems we listen to 'the Reasoner', a voice that is by turns ardent, despairing and comic. Petty obsessions rub against attempts at philosophical seriousness; vernacular expression vies with an intent deliberation. Above all, the Reasoner is worried. He has cherished the notion that, with thought and study, the world may be understood. But the world remains recalcitrant, elusive even in simple things like the trickeries of light on a spider's web. Language plays tricks, although it may be as complete as we can manage. History proposes and disposes of its patterns. Behind all this there may be a 'hidden order' -- and that is both a hope and a fear.
Does God help us to understand any of this? Does Art? Is the 'soul' a sanctuary? The Reasoner, the reader, 'smiles ruefully and soldiers on', 'for this is not a wicked but a hard world, / and people struggle, without a scheme of things, / and deserve release.'
Evan Jones reads 'Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant' at the launch of his book PARALOGUES on 24 September 2012 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. This event also launched GLASS IS ELASTIC by Jon Glover, and THE REASONER by Jeffrey Wainwright.
Paralogues, which takes its title from the Greek word for 'ballads', is the British début of an original Canadian poet and editor. Evan Jones explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways, and Paralogues concludes with a sequence retelling the Byzantine folk ballad 'Constantine and Arete'.
Translation is central to the collection, from the modern Greek of Miltos Sachtouris to the Austrian German of Raoul Schrott. Readers encounter people and places real and imagined: the lonely figure of the poet Cavafy in Victorian Liverpool, God in post-war Paris, the landscapes of Europe and North America at once familiar and unfamiliar.
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Oli Hazzard reads 'A Few Precepts' from his début collection, BETWEEN TWO WINDOWS (Carcanet, 2012): http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771391
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Oli Hazzard reads 'The Inability to Recall the Precise Word for Something' from his début collection, BETWEEN TWO WINDOWS (Carcanet, 2012): http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847771391
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South Africa's Katharine Kilalea reads 'Hennecker's Ditch' from the New Poetries V anthology (Carcanet, 2011) at the North West Leg of Poetry Parnassus. Katharine read with New Zealand's Bill Manhire at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester, on 9 July 2012.
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South Africa's Katharine Kilalea reads 'Portrait of Our Death' from her book, One Eye'd Leigh (Carcanet, 2009) at the North West Leg of Poetry Parnassus. Katharine read with New Zealand's Bill Manhire at Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester, on 9 July 2012.
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William Letford reads his poem 'There's hunners o burds on the roofs' at the launch of the bestselling anthology NEW POETRIES V on 9 November 2011. The launch was held at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester (www.anthonyburgess.org).
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Helen Tookey reads 'In a Richer Mine' at the launch of the bestselling anthology NEW POETRIES V, at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology, its editors and contributors, go to www.Carcanet
Rory Waterman reads 'A Windower' by Henry King, at the launch of the bestselling anthology, NEW POETRIES V at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology, its editors and its contributors, please go to www.Carcanet.co.uk.
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Helen Tookey reads 'Colossus' by David Ward at the launch of the bestselling NEW POETRIES V anthology, at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology and its contributors, and to order your copy of the book, go to www.Carcanet.co.uk.
Helen Tookey reads 'Estuarine' at the launch of the bestselling NEW POETRIES V: AN ANTHOLOGY at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology and all its contributors, go to www.Carcanet.co.uk
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Rory Waterman reads 'Dusk' by Sheri Benning at the launch of NEW POETRIES V: AN ANTHOLOGY at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology and all its contributors, go to www.Carcanet.co.uk
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Helen Tookey reads 'Aunt Jane and the Scholar' by Lucy Tunstall at the launch of NEW POETRIES V: AN ANTHOLOGY at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on 9 November 2011. To find out more about the anthology and all its contributors, go to www.Carcanet.co.uk
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Evan Jones - 'Constantine and Arete - An Autobiography (13)'
Julith Jedamus - 'In Memory of the Photographer Wilson ''Snowflake'' Bentley....'
Jon Glover - 'Glass Is Elastic'
Jeffrey Wainwright - '79: History could make a stone weep'
Evan Jones - 'Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant'
Oli Hazzard - 'A Few Precepts'
Oli Hazzard - 'The Inability to Recall the Precise Word for Something'
Katharine Kilalea - 'Hennecker's Ditch'
Katharine Kilalea - 'Portrait of Our Death'
Ian Pindar - 'Carvaka/Lokayata'
William Letford - 'There's hunners o burds on the roofs'
Helen Tookey reads 'In a Richer Mine'
Rory Waterman reads 'A Windower' by Henry King
Helen Tookey reads 'Colossus' by David Ward
Rory Waterman reads 'Dusk' by Sheri Benning
Helen Tookey reads 'Aunt Jane and the Scholar' by Lucy Tunstall
