Poetry in Herons: Tom Sastry

Poetry in Herons returns!

For our May monthly poetry reading, we are delighted to Tom Sastry.

Free entry. Come for the poetry. Stay for the poetry.

Arrive at 5pm. We’ll offer you something fizzy. Usually a drink but perhaps one day it will be a sherbet fountain.

5.10-5.40ish, we’ll enjoy some poetry.

5.40-6pm, finish the fizzy things and perhaps buy the poet’s books.

Some seating. Some standing. Get in touch with us about any requirements you may have.

It is free and unticketed but it would help if you let us know that you are coming. RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk

Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. Poems have appeared in The Guardian and Poetry Review and been highly commended in the Forward Prize. Books have been Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. Tom will be reading from his brand new collection Life Expectancy Begins To Fall published in March 2025.

Praise for Tom Sastry
“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird
“Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday…making friendships and love affairs new and strange”  – Carol Ann Duffy

Praise for Life Expectancy Begins To Fall
“It takes a special writer to have us laughing while never taking his subjects anything but seriously, or to move so fluently between humour and beautiful moments of emotive power. This may be the most important – and certainly the most entertaining – book about subjects like the end of the world I’ve yet found.” – Jonathan Edwards
“Startling, sardonic, and absolutely necessary” – Kaycee Hill