Poetry in Herons – Glyn Maxwell

Join us for Poetry In Herons with Glyn Maxwell

Join us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm, Saturday 12th October.

Glyn Maxwell’s most recent poetry books are The Big Calls, a broadside against recent UK government, and How The Hell Are You, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize in 2020. Seven of his poetry collections have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot, Forward and Costa Prizes, and ‘The Nerve’ won the Geoffrey Faber Prize. His latest book is Silly Games To Save The World, a sequel to his popular guidebook On Poetry.

Silly Games is available to read for free on Glyn’s Substack site. He is Head of Studies on the MA at the Poetry School, and Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

You can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.
Tickets are £4 or free with the purchase of either The Big Calls or How the Hell Are You. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival.

Tickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.
Book orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event.

The evening will begin with a reading from Kaycee Hill, followed by Glyn’s reading.

Kaycee is a working-class, mixed-heritage poet studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and received mentorship from Malika Booker. Kaycee’s poetry has been published in Poetry Review, Five Dials, and commended by the Young Poets Network. Her words are found on Young Poets’ Stories, the British Museum’s YouTube channel, and in various anthologies. Bloodaxe recently published her debut collection, Hot Sauce.