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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly pre-prandial poetry reading in the shop. \nJoin us for a triple bill with: Matt Bryden\, Josephine Corcoran and Isabella Mead. \nNo tickets\, free entry\, just do get in touch if you’d like to attend so that we have an idea of numbers.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry Performance and Christmas Party
DESCRIPTION:A poetry performance from Jo Eades and Barry Hollow with Adam Elms acting as MC. \nIf you’re on the mailing list or attend our book groups/other events\, you should have received an invitation. Do get in touch if you haven’t.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-performance-and-christmas-party/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Dominic Fisher & Gillie Harries
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Dominic Fisher and Gillie Harries. They will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions or have copies of their books signed. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n— \nGillie Harries has drawn inspiration from her birthplace on the Suffolk coastline and from sites around her adopted city of Bristol. She has been published in both pamphlets and anthologies and brought out her collection Kneeling in Dust in 2020. \nDominic Fisher taught English for many years in both Bristol and internationally. His poems have been widely published\, broadcast and won prizes. His second collection A Customised Selection of Fireworks came out in 2022.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-dominic-fisher-gillie-harries/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Carrie Etter & Emma Jones
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Carrie Etter\, author of The Weather in Normal amongst other collections\, and Emma Jones\, author of The Striped World. The two poets will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions or have copies of their books signed. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n— \nAmerican expat Carrie Etter lectures in creative writing at the University of Bristol and has published four collections of poetry as well as numerous essays\, short stories\, and reviews. Carrie’s poems have appeared in The New Republic\, The New Statesman\, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem\, Poetry Review\, and The Times Literary Supplement. Her published collections include 2018’s The Weather in Normal\, and her fifth collection\, Grief’s Alphabet\, will be published next year. \nEmma Jones was born in Sydney and studied at the universities of Sydney and Cambridge. Her first book\, The Striped World (2009)\, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Collection. Emma wrote the libretto for City Songs\, a contemporary oratorio\, with composer Eriks Esenvalds\, which premiered at The Round House in London with vocalist Imogen Heap. She was one of the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets for 2014 and has held writing fellowships in Cambridge\, the Lake District\, Rome and Riga\, and is at work on a second book. She previously taught at the University of Oxford and is currently Senior Lecturer in Poetry at Bath Spa University.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-carrie-etter-emma-jones/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Book Stall at Alice Oswald/Kim Moore Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to be running the book stall at a reading by two of our favourite poets\, Alice Oswald and Kim Moore.  The reading is a National Poetry Day event\, organised by Poetry by Heart and the Bristol Poetry Institute and held at the University’s Priory Road Lecture Theatre. \nAttendance is free but ticketed: you can order your tickets and find further details about the event on the Eventbrite page.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/book-stall-at-alice-oswald-kim-moore-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Priory Road Lecture Theatre\, Priory Road Complex\, Bristol\, BS8 1TU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with a showcase of eight local poets\, each performing one of their pieces. All compered by great heron-lover Bob Walton. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-showcase/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Jan Edwards & Jon Hamp
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Jan Edwards and Jon Hamp. They will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to chat and ask questions. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n— \nOriginally from rural Herefordshire\, with roots in South Wales\, Bristol-based Jan Edwards is a regular contributor to Bristol’s thriving poetry scene. She has an MA in Anglo-Welsh Literature\, taught English for many years and now works with vulnerable\, unemployed young people in North Somerset. She performs poetry on her own and also in various collaborations including JanJonJow which interweaves Jon Hamp’s magical poetry\, her own and the delicately quirky cello/trumpet combo of Pete Judge and James Gow (JOW).\n\nJon Hamp is a lifelong lover of words\, born and raised on the far shores of Kelston Roundhill in the Cotswolds. The poet\, educator\, and navigator all affectionately combine in his work and illustrate interest in landscape and time and our impact\, and lack of impact\, upon both. All possible steps are taken to detect the vacuous and unnecessary; there is honest attempt to stay grounded and surprise and entertain; pushing for something a little different to illuminate our environment. Jon is the Kelston poet laureate and his other projects include The Other Side of the Tracks\, a collaboration with Bristol photographer Neil Phillips to document Bath City FC matchdays in poetry and pictures.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-jan-edwards-jon-hamp/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Tom Sastry & Taran Spalding-Jenkin
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Tom Sastry and Taran Spalding-Jenkin. They will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions or have copies of their books signed. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n— \nTom Sastry’s second collection of poems You have no normal country to return to is political\, ironic\, emotional\, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. It follows A Man’s House Catches Fire (2019) which was highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize and the pamphlet Complicity (2016) which was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. \n“Smart\, funny\, challenging and\, against all odds\, hopeful. An essential\, irresistible read” – Amy Acre\n“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird\n“Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday…making friendships and love affairs new and strange” – Carol Ann Duffy \nTaran Spalding-Jenkin is a poet\, performer\, translator and native Kernewek speaker. Their work explores the spaces between identities\, disability\, queerness\, and hireth – the longing for a lost home or one that has never existed. Taran is a co-runner of Tonic\, Bristol’s music and poetry party\, a bilingual workshop leader\, and has won awards from Gorsedh Kernow for his poetry including the BBC audio project A Shanty For Cornish Youth. His debut pamphlet Health Hireth will be released by Broken Sleep Books in Summer 2023.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-tom-sastry-taran-spalding-jenkin/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Mab Jones & Deborah Harvey
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Mab Jones\, author of Yubitsume\, and Deborah Harvey\, author of Learning Finity. They will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions or have copies of their books signed. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n— \nMab Jones is a “unique talent” (The Times). She is the author of three collections and three pamphlets; is the recipient of many awards\, most recently 1st prize in the Wolverhampton Literature Competition; has presented several BBC Radio 4 programmes; and has written for the New York Times. Her latest book is Yubitsume\, published by Indigo Dreams \n“Mab Jones’ poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years… Her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths” – Phill Jupitus\n“Richly diverse… [with] immediacy\, quick wit\, and vitality… Jones’s poetry is simply a pleasure to read” – Acumen \n— \nDeborah Harvey’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies\, broadcast on Radio 4’s Poetry Please\, and awarded several prizes. Learning Finity is her fifth collection of poetry; her previous four collections are also published by Indigo Dreams\, while her historical novel\, Dart\, appeared under their Tamar Books imprint. \n“Deborah Harvey’s … poems are raw and true. She is the real thing” – Hugo Williams
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-mab-jones-deborah-harvey/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Bristol Poetry Institute: Annual Reading with Denise Riley
DESCRIPTION:We are honoured to be selling books at the forthcoming Bristol Poetry Institute’s Annual Reading in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building. \nOne of our finest contemporary poets\, Denise Riley\, will be giving a reading\, taking questions and signing copies of her books\, available for purchase from a Heron Books stall. \nTickets are free but please use the Eventbrite page to book a place and for further information. This event is organised by the Bristol Poetry Institute\, based at the University of Bristol.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-poetry-institute-annual-reading-with-denise-riley/
LOCATION:Wills Memorial Building\, Queens Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons - Sarah Hemings and Nina Parmenter
DESCRIPTION:Our poetry series continues with Sarah Hemings\, author of Night after Night in the Quiet House\, and Nina Parmenter\, author of Split\, Twist\, Apocalypse. They will read some of their poems for around 15 minutes each\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions or have copies of their books signed. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome. Please RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk or on social media so that we can keep track of numbers. \n—\nSarah Hemings is a poet and chartered librarian from Bristol. She has twice won First Prize in the Gloucestershire Writers’ Network Poetry Competition. Her work has appeared in various journals\, anthologies and podcasts. In 2021 she was mentored by Fiona Benson\, under the Dialect Mentoring Scheme (a competitive scheme funded by Arts Council England). Sarah’s first pamphlet\, Night after Night in the Quiet House\, was published by Maytree Press on National Poetry Day 2022.\nShe tweets at @SarahHemings1.\n—\nNina Parmenter is a poet and mum from Wiltshire. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals\, anthologies and websites. She has been nominated for the Forward Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Split\, Twist\, Apocalypse (Indigo Dreams) is her debut collection.\nAbout Split\, Twist\, Apocalypse:\nWhere the world sits on the cusp of waking and sleep\, where chance\, gods\, magic and the whims of the universe are just a step away\, Split\, Twist\, Apocalypse allows us to explore the collage of the possible and impossible. Sometimes humorous\, sometimes dark\, in traditional form and in free form\, the poems celebrate the rich and surreal nature of living on this painful\, beautiful Earth.\nwww.ninaparmenter.com \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-sarah-hemings-and-nina-parmenter/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons - Bob Walton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first in a series of poetry readings. We are kicking off with local poet Bob Walton\, author of the marvellous Sax Burglar Blues. \nBob was born in Cardiff but has lived in Bristol for decades and in Hotwells for 18 years. He has a PhD from Cardiff University\, where he taught Creative Writing until last year. In 2020 and 2021\, he won the North American Festival of Wales Poetry Prizes and was highly commended in the Troubadour International Poetry Competition\, also being highly commended in the Desmond O’Grady International Award 2022. A member of The Spoke poetry collective\, he has read at a wide range of venues and festivals and often performs in collaboration with musicians and other artists. Bob also facilitates community workshops and hosts poetry events such as the monthly ‘Under the Red Guitar’ at El Rincon in Southville and the bi-monthly on-line Speakeasy Poetry Nights. His second collection\, Sax Burglar Blues (Seren) was shortlisted for Wales Arts Review’s Book of the Year 2018 and he is currently working towards his third collection. \nEntry is free and all are very welcome.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-herons/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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