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Kettle's Yard

Please join us (and please pass this message on) for the launch of

A ROOM TO LIVE IN

A Kettle’s Yard Anthology

LAUNCH EVENING FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 6.30pm Free – everyone welcome

With readings by Ian Patterson and Sharon Morris and music by Anton Lukoszevieze.

To [...]

Valeria Melchioretto?s long poem ‘Walnut’, subtitled ?A Manifesto?, which comes early in her debut collection The End of Limbo , is a meditation on the relationship between the nut, the tree, the forest, the wardrobe, the poet, and the reader of the poem which is also an invitation to step into a [...]

Isobel Dixon is chosen for the FT Magazine?s poem today,

whilst Nick Laird adds Luke Kennard to his Christmas list in The Telegraph .

tags: Isobel?Dixon , Luke?Kennard [...]

Annie Clarkson reads Angela Readman straight through for a stunning review in Stride Magazine :

This beautifully produced hardback poetry collection, a starting pink with pictures of naked dolls on the front with their eyes closed, landed on my mat this week.

Usually when I find a new poetry collection I dip into [...]

Angela Readman

Angela Readman?s new collection Strip is published this month, and is already November?s bestselling poetry title. Dealing with narratives around pornography and female identity, the book is a fascinating portrait of control, constraint and desire, often exploring the gendered roles and expectations men and women share. All of which Angela subverts [...]

In the forest of the mind

Maybe every case is different, and the conditions different. Perhaps nothing can be really learned, nothing retrieved, and each time the repetition seems hollow even as it thrills, and the distance between occasions may be more abstract, more vague, like the end of a season. A house seen [...]

Love in the City

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill Salt Publishing (2006, 2007), 80pp, ?12.99, ISBN: 9781844714254

?Nocturne? and ?Yellow? sound strange in the title of a collection of poems – would this be poetry of music and painting? In a way it is; elegiac verses transmit the essence [...]

Thank you to Vanessa Gebbie for sending us a pic of Charlotte, her trusty editorial assistant, hard at work helping her check the proofs of her book ‘Words from a Glass Bubble’, which is being published in March 2008 – WATCH OUT FOR IT!

Vanessa has just returned from the 2007 [...]

Poetry Parlour at Crockatt and Powell presents

CALYPSOES, PARANG, RUM-SOAKED BLACK CAKE ? COME PREPARED TO DANCE AT OUR CARIBBEAN XMAS PARTY!

Mcs: Louisa Hooper, Fawzia Kane & Anna Robinson

CROCKATT AND POWELL 119-120 Lower Marsh London SE1 www.crockattandpowell.com

Tuesday 11th December 2007 @ 7.00pm Tickets ?4 inc. cake & punch [...]

Vincent De Souza

Vincent De Souza reading dates

Vincent is reading from his collection Weightless Road

Wednesday 28th November 2007 Borders Books & Music 203-207 Oxford Street London W1D 2LE,

Time: 7.30 p.m. All welcome

Thursday 29th November 2007 Foyles Bookshop The Gallery 113-119 Charing Cross Road London

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