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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Tom Sastry
DESCRIPTION:Poetry in Herons returns! \nFor our May monthly poetry reading\, we are delighted to Tom Sastry. \nFree entry. Come for the poetry. Stay for the poetry. \nArrive at 5pm. We’ll offer you something fizzy. Usually a drink but perhaps one day it will be a sherbet fountain. \n5.10-5.40ish\, we’ll enjoy some poetry. \n5.40-6pm\, finish the fizzy things and perhaps buy the poet’s books. \nSome seating. Some standing. Get in touch with us about any requirements you may have. \nIt is free and unticketed but it would help if you let us know that you are coming. RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk \nTom 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. \nPraise for Tom Sastry\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 \nPraise for Life Expectancy Begins To Fall\n“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\n“Startling\, sardonic\, and absolutely necessary” – Kaycee Hill \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-tom-sastry/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Franny Moyle: The King's Painter – signing and meet the author
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the new paperback edition of Franny Moyle’s superb book on Hans Holbein. \nPlease join us for a book signing and to meet the author. \nHans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture\, which includes representations of Henry VIII\, Thomas More\, Thomas Cromwell\, Anne of Cleves\, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images\, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court\, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius: a humanist\, satirist\, political propagandist\, and contributor to the history of book design as well as a religious artist and court painter. \nThe rich layers of symbolism and allusion that characterise his work have proved especially fascinating to scholars. Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation\, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror. \nYou can preorder the book here. This new edition has been beautifully printed with careful attention to detail\, brilliant production values to show the artworks discussed and the best endpapers we have ever seen. Do come along to gaze at it\, get your copy signed and meet author\, cultural historian and brilliant storyteller Franny Moyle. \nThe event is free and unticketed. And may contain snacks. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/franny-moyle-the-kings-painter-signing-and-meet-the-author/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Bristol Bookshop Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Further details to come from the great people at Bookshop Crawl. \nEnjoy a day of celebrating all Bristol bookshops… and get 10% off your purchases!
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-bookshop-crawl-2/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Bookshop Crawl
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SUMMARY:Emma Stonex: The Sunshine Man
DESCRIPTION:A private launch of Emma Stonex’s latest book\, The Sunshine Man. \nHowever\, if you are a particular fan please do get in touch and we’ll see if we can save you a signed copy… email read@heronbooks.co.uk \nPre-order a copy of The Sunshine Man here.\nOrder Emma’s first book\, The Lamplighters here. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/emma-stonex-the-sunshine-man/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Dis Poetry: A Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah
DESCRIPTION:Part of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival 2025 \nHeron Books will run the bookstall at this special Bristol tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah\, celebrating his extraordinary work and enduring legacy. \nThe event will feature readings of Zephaniah’s iconic poems by renowned figures in UK poetry\, including his Poem for St Pauls performed in Bristol in 1983 for the BBC\, as well as talks\, personal stories and reflections from Benjamin’s friends and family members. \nCome along and pay tribute to one of the most influential and remarkable poets in living memory\, celebrating his immeasurable contributions to poetry\, activism\, nature\, health and social justice. \nhttps://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/dis-poetry-a-tribute-to-benjamin-zephaniah/
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/dis-poetry-a-tribute-to-benjamin-zephaniah/
LOCATION:St George’s\, Bristol\, St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street\, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: Deborah Harvey
DESCRIPTION:Poetry in Herons returns! \nFor our April monthly poetry reading\, we are delighted to welcome Deborah Harvey. \nFree entry. Come for the poetry. Stay for the poetry. \nArrive at 5pm. We’ll offer you something fizzy. Usually a drink but perhaps one day it will be a sherbet fountain. \n5.10-5.40ish\, we’ll enjoy some poetry. \n5.40-6pm\, finish the fizzy things and perhaps buy the poet’s books. \nSome seating. Some standing. Get in touch with us about any requirements you may have. \nIt is free and unticketed but it would help if you let us know that you are coming. RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk \n  \nDeborah Harvey was born in a Salvation Army hospital on Ashley Hill\, and\, apart from a doomed attempt to escape in the 1980s\, has lived in the far north – that is\, Filton – all her life. Deb works part time in a school for deaf children\, part time as a support worker for one of her adult children who has autism\, and part time as a poetry group facilitator. She co-runs Bristol’s longest-running open mic\, Silver Street\, and is a member of the IsamBards\, a group of four poets who conduct poetry walks around Bristol. She has six collections of poetry and a novel\, all published by Indigo Dreams. Her latest collection\, Love the Albatross\, came out in 2024 and is a favourite of Heron Books’.\nIn her spare time\, Deb loves reading poetry and wandering about a bit with her collie\, Cwtch. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-deborah-harvey/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Andrew Harding: A Small\, Stubborn Town in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Harding will speak about his book\, A Small\, Stubborn Town In Ukraine. \nEvent link: https://foccal.com/event/316 \nAbout the book: \nThe Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. \nIt’s March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast\, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk\, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight – or no fight at all. \nAfter all\, Voznesensk is a quiet farming town\, full of pensioners. But the locals appear to have other ideas. Svetlana\, a grandmother with arthritis\, reacts in fury when Russian troops turn her cottage into their blood-soaked headquarters. \nValentin\, a quick-talking lawyer\, joins the town’s ‘Dads Army’ defenders\, crouching in a trench with an AK47. Meanwhile\, 21-year-old Sergei grabs a Molotov cocktail and lies in wait for Russian tanks as they push towards Dead Water Bridge. The odds are terrible. \nBut a plan is emerging\, and there’s a chance it could save not just Voznesensk\, but the rest of southern Ukraine. Meanwhile\, inside the tanks\, an inner battle rages. As Russian officer Igor Rudenko prepares to invade\, he has a secret. \nHe is Ukrainian himself. A gripping work of reportage that tells the story of a pivotal moment in Ukraine’s war\, this is a real-life thriller about ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with resilience\, humour and ingenuity. \nAbout the author: \nAndrew Harding is a British journalist and author. He has been living and working abroad as a foreign correspondent for the past 3 decades. Since 1994 he has been working for BBC News. \nHe began his career in the former Soviet Union\, initially as a freelancer. After a decade living in Moscow and Tbilisi\, he moved to Nairobi\, then Singapore\, Bangkok and now Johannesburg. He is married with three sons. \nAndrew has reported on the breakup of the Soviet Union\, Russia’s parliamentary rebellion\, the Asian tsunami and west Africa’s Ebola outbreak. He has covered many conflicts\, most recently in Ukraine\, but also in Chechnya\, Azerbaijan\, Abkhazia\, Kosovo\, Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Burma\, Darfur\, DR Congo\, Liberia\, Sierra Leone\, Mali\, South Sudan\, Cote D’Ivoire\, CAR\, Burundi\, Uganda\, Libya and elsewhere.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/andrew-harding-a-small-stubborn-town-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Harriet Baker signing Rural Hours
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the paperback publication of Rural Hours by Harriet Baker. \nA Times Book of the Year 2024\, not to mention a Heron Books Book of the Year. \nVirginia Woolf\, Rosamond Lehmann and Sylvia Townsend Warner fans\, this is a must read. If you are yet to become a fan of theirs\, this is also a must read. We are so excited to share this book and the three authors whose lives and writing it explores with you. \nCome in to meet the author\, get your copy signed and enjoy a drink with us. The event is free but it would help if you let us know you are coming by emailing read@heronbooks.co.uk. \nAbout the book\nHarriet Baker tells the story of three very different women\, each of whom moved to the countryside and was forever changed by it. We encounter them at quiet moments – pausing to look at an insect on the windowsill; jotting down a recipe; or digging for potatoes\, dirt beneath their nails. \nSlowly\, we start to see transformations unfold: Virginia Woolf\, Sylvia Townsend Warner\, and Rosamond Lehmann emerge before us as the passionate\, visionary writers we know them to be. Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment\, each of Baker’s subjects is invigorated by new landscapes\, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home; slowly\, they embark on new experiments in form\, in feeling and in living that would resonate throughout the rest of their lives. In the country\, each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery; to sexual and political awakening; and\, above all\, to personal freedom and creative flourishing. \nIn graceful\, fluid prose\, Baker vividly recreates these overlooked episodes\, revealing how ‘rural hours’ defined the lives of three pioneering writers. In the end\, she shows\, their example is an invitation to us all: to recognize the radical and creative potential of rural places\, and find new enchantment in the rituals of each day. ‘Warm\, perceptive\, eloquent … Like Baker’s protagonists in their countryside boltholes I felt “socketed” by this book. \nI know I’ll return to it again and again’ Lauren Elkin\n‘A meditative exploration of renewal\, visionariness\, grievous loss\, and love – cool and passionate\, fragile and enduring’ David Hayden \nOrder the hardback here.\nPre-order the paperback here. \nAbout the author\nHarriet Baker has written for the London Review of Books\, the Paris Review\, the New Statesman\, the TLS\, FT Magazine\, and Apollo. In 2018\, she was awarded the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize. Her first book\, Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf\, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann\, was published by Allen Lane in April 2024\, and has since been shortlisted for the Charlotte Aitkin Sunday Times Young Writer Award. She lives in Bristol.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/harriet-baker-signing-rural-hours/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons: John Greening
DESCRIPTION:Poetry in Herons returns! \nFor our March monthly poetry reading\, we are delighted to welcome John Greening. \nFree entry. Come for the poetry. Stay for the poetry. \nArrive at 5pm. We’ll offer you something fizzy. Usually a drink but perhaps one day it will be a sherbet fountain. \n5.10-5.40ish\, we’ll enjoy some poetry. \n5.40-6pm\, finish the fizzy things\, chat with the poet and perhaps buy their books. \nSome seating. Some standing. Get in touch with us about any requirements you may have. \nIt is free and unticketed but it would help if you let us know that you are coming. RSVP to read@heronbooks.co.uk. \nJohn Greening is a poet\, critic\, editor and translator\, a Bridport\, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner and author of over twenty collections\, The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP ed. Gardner) came out in 2023. He has edited Matthew Arnold\, Geoffrey Grigson\, Edmund Blunden\, Iain Crichton Smith and a new U.A.Fanthorpe\, plus several critical studies and anthologies\, most recently (with Kevin Gardner) Contraflow: Lines of Englishness\, a Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year. His Goethe translations appeared in 2022 from Arc and there is a forthcoming Rilke. \nU.A.Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was one of the UK’s most popular poets\, but it’s not well known that her writing career began in Bristol. She had given up her teaching post and become what she liked to call  ‘a middle-aged drop-out’. While working as a hospital receptionist in the 1970s she began writing (literally in her lunch hours) the work that would soon make her famous in ways very rare for any poet. Her many awards included the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. \nThere has not been a new selection of her poems available for many years and John Greening will be introducing his annotated edition of her work tonight and also reading some of his own poetry. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-john-greening/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Simon Scarrow: A Death in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:A free lunchtime talk with Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Simon Scarrow in the Reading Room at Bristol Central Library. Simon will be in conversation discussing his new book A Death in Berlin\, the latest in his CI Schenke series. \nAbout the Book \nSPRING 1940. GERMANY IS AT WAR. HITLER PREPARES TO UNLEASH THE BLITZKRIEG\, AND FEAR RULES THE STREETS OF BERLIN. Where the darkness of evil thrives\, no one is safe—not even the criminals. \nBERLIN. MAY 1940. AS HITLER PREPARES TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE\, THERE IS BLOODSHED CLOSER TO HOME \nCI Horst Schenke is an exceptional investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the wider war\, he fights to keep criminals off his patch of Berlin. But with influential men questioning his loyalty to the Nazi regime\, he is walking a tightrope. If his secret relationship with a Jewish woman is exposed\, that would spell the end. \nBerlin’s gangsters run their crime rings with impunity. Decadent senior Nazis are happy to protect them. Schenke is different. He refuses to turn a blind eye when innocent victims are caught in the crossfire between warring gangs. But dangerous enemies know everything about him. They will do whatever it takes to bend him to their will . . . \nFrom the seedy wartime nightlife scene to aristocratic homes frequented by the Führer himself\, against a backdrop of a war spiralling into a greater\, and closer\, conflagration\, A Death in Berlin conveys both the horror and banality of evil. And the terrible danger for those who dare stand against it. \nAbout the Author \nSimon Scarrow is a Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author with several million copies of his books sold worldwide. After a childhood spent travelling the world\, he pursued his great love of history as a teacher\, before becoming a full-time writer. His books – which have sold 6 million copies – include two earlier Berlin thrillers featuring CI Schenke\, BLACKOUT and DEAD OF NIGHT which was a No.2 ebook bestseller. \nSimon Scarrow is also the author of a quartet of novels about the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte\, YOUNG BLOODS\, THE GENERALS\, FIRE AND SWORD and THE FIELDS OF DEATH; a novel about the 1565 Siege of Malta\, SWORD & SCIMITAR; HEARTS OF STONE\, set in Greece during the Second World War; and PLAYING WITH DEATH\, a contemporary thriller written with Lee Francis. He also wrote the novels ARENA and INVADER with T. J. Andrews. His first Berlin thriller\, BLACKOUT\, set in WW2 Berlin and first published in 2021 was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick with DEAD OF NIGHT following to critical acclaim earlier in 2023.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/simon-scarrow-a-death-in-berlin/
LOCATION:Bristol Central Library\, Deanery Road\, Bristol\, BS1 5TL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:World Book Day
DESCRIPTION:Pop in to pick up your World Book Day choice! \nWorld Book Day champions the fun of reading\, because it seriously improves lives. Reading for fun is the single biggest indicator that a child will grow up to enjoy a happier and more successful life – more than their family circumstances\, their parents’ educational backgrounds or their income. \nBut here’s the challenge\, it’s at an all-time low\, with only 1 in 3 children now saying they enjoy reading. World Book Day is a charity which believes children are more likely to read if they enjoy it\, so we’re on a mission to encourage them to see reading as an entertaining\, social and fun thing to do. We want more children to grow up with a life-long\, life-changing habit of reading for fun\, and all the benefits this brings. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/world-book-day/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Are the Introverts Winning? with Marie le Conte
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. \nFull details and tickets: https://www.meetup.com/bristol-humanists/events/305649303/ \nIn our post-pandemic online world are we becoming more and more socially isolated? If so\, what does that mean for us humans\, the most social of all animals? We have evolved and are genetically pre-disposed to live in large social groups. Social interaction and cooperation is key to our ‘success’ and flourishing as a species. In this talk\, based on a recent article in New Humanist\, Marie le Conte will make the case that the pandemic\, and near universal access to the internet\, has just speeded up a fundamental long-term shift in our social patterns\, leading to reduced social interaction. This in turn reduces diversity\, positive ‘friction’ and the myriad benefits of social contact. Did you know for example that social isolation leads to greater loneliness\, and in turn is actually a bigger killer than smoking cigarettes. She will argue that the outside is where the unknowable can take place\, that chance interactions are a precious thing\, and that a life without serendipity is not really worth living. How can we recreate this vital social interaction that is so vital to our wellbeing and survival? \nMarie Le Conte is a French-Moroccan freelance journalist based in London. She previously worked as media and politics correspondent for Buzzfeed and as political diarist for the New Statesman\, as well as co-host of the Polling Politics podcast and presented a documentary for Radio 4 called Club 18-30. She also co-founded and organised two editions of the Words by Women awards. She writes features\, profiles\, essays\, book reviews\, newsletters and columns for a number of publications\, often on politics but also about everything else! She has written 3 books\, the most recent of which is ‘Escape – how a generation shaped\, destroyed and survived the internet’
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/are-the-introverts-winning-with-marie-le-conte/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Growing up Human with Dr Brenna Hassett
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to support this event organised by the Bristol Humanists. \nTracking deep into our evolutionary history\, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many\, many animals that came before us – our uniquely long childhoods. In the Darwin Day lecture Brenna Hassett will look at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay ‘forever young’ – or at least what seems like forever – and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story. \nFull details and tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/643698
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/growing-up-human-with-dr-brenna-hassett/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:We Have Flown Away to 7a
DESCRIPTION:At 9.30 on 8th Feburary\, Heron Books opens a new door at 7a Regent Street. Please do come and see us on 8th February to find out if we’ve managed to shelve all the books in their new location. \nIn the morning we’ll have some sweet treats to offer from our favourite East Village Cafe. \nIn the (early) evening\, we’ll be having a little party:\n(Not actually) champagne served from 4.45. A couple of silly words from me from 5pm. A couple of wise poems from Bob Walton. And then some more drinks until 6pm. \nHope to see lots of you there.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/we-have-flown-away-to-7a/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:A Moving Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Ahead of our move to 7a Regent Street\, we are offering 10% off for our last weekend in the Arcade. That’s the whole event. Very simple. 1st-2nd February. 10% off everything you buy in the shop. \nWhilst your here\, you could also reminisce with us about the stunning surroundings in which Heron Books first began. Come and gaze with us at the glass roof\, thinking of the majesty of the place (probably while beset by deafening hail\, given the current storms). Come and speculate with us about whether that weird hum is the ghost of the Arcade’s architect. Come and congratulate us on the sheer amount of weetabix we’re consuming in order to carry out the move. Major arm muscles developing here. And then please continue to come and enjoy our little independent when we open at 7a Regent Street just round the corner.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/a-moving-weekend/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:2025 Poetry in Herons
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly poetry series has a little break for a couple of months over winter. We return from March. Exciting announcements about the 2025 programme coming soon and lots of events and book groups to celebrate before then. \nHappy reading and we hope to see you at an event and in the shop soon. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/2025-poetry-in-herons/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Science with Michael Malay\, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Science – the unbridgeable divide that doesn’t exist\n  \nfeaturing Michael Malay\, Rebecca Nesbit and Bob Walton\nBristol Humanists and Heron Books invite you to a mid-winter social\, discussion and performance\, with 3 very special guests\, exploring the unbridgeable divide – that doesn’t exist – between poetry and science. \nhttps://wegottickets.com/event/638412 \n– Michael Malay – is the Winner of the 2024 Wainwright Prize for nature writing for his book Late Light; he teaches English and Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol \n– Rebecca Nesbit – is a biologist and ecologist at Plymouth University; author of popular science books Tickets for the Ark and Is That Fish in Your Tomato? Rebecca is also a poet\, novelist and painter \n– Bob Walton – is a poet and educator; his books include Sax Burglar Blues\, as well as featuring in numerous anthologies; he is currently writing about earthworms\, and runs poetry events in Bristol and online\, including the monthly poetry night Under the Red Guitar \nIncreasingly\, science is seen as the answer to all questions\, problems & woes. But is it really omnicompetent? Poetry is seen as subjective\, but can it can teach us as much about the natural world as the ‘hard’ and objective sciences? \nMichael\, Rebecca & Bob will explore these different views and approaches\, why we hold them\, and the differing ways that science and creativity can share\, express & communicate understandings. \nMichael\, who uses his creative work to explore migration\, belonging and extinction will be in conversation with Rebecca\, who is researching the behaviour of fish communities\, communicating the insights gained with policy-makers and the fishing community\, and with Bob\, whose work encompasses the natural world. \nAll three will be reading from their work\, as well as exploring together the ‘unbridgeable divide’. \nThis promises to be a very special night! \nThis event is jointly promoted by Bristol Humanists and Heron Books. There will be a bookstall run by Heron Books\, with books from all three guests on sale. \nFood & Drink\nThe cafe/bar will be open beforehand from 6.45pm\, throughout the event and afterwards\, and hot food will be available\, if ordered in advance. Please contact Folk House on folkhousecafe@gmail.com to find out what food is on offer and to place your order Soft drinks\, alcohol and hot drinks will be available throughout. The event itself will start at 7.30pm. \nWe are sorry that the Folk House is not fully accessible. For more details check here https://www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/contact-us#venue
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-and-science/
LOCATION:Bristol Folk House\, 40a Park St\, Bristol\, BS1 5JG
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons Party with Carrie Etter
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly poetry event combines with a festive party hosted by The Lansdown on Thursday 21st November.\nWe are delighted to welcome back Carrie Etter.\nArrive from 18.30. Head upstairs. Poetry will commence shortly after. Partying will continue until late. \nThere may be a few tickets on the door but please book in advance to avoid disappointment. \nAlso on the bill will be ten local poets\, invited to read one poem. \nCarrie Etter has published five collections of poetry\, most recently Grief’s Alphabet\, described by The Guardian as ‘An impassioned reckoning with the aftermath of Etter’s adoptive parents’ deaths’. Her previous collections are The Tethers\, winner of the London New Poetry Prize; Divining for Starters; Imagined Sons\, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and The Weather in Normal\, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, The New Statesman\, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem\, Poetry Review\, and The TLS. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop. Tickets only are £4 or £10.99 with the purchase of  Grief’s Alphabet\, Imagined Sons or The Weather in Normal. We will provide a glass of something sparkling on arrival. The bar downstairs will be open throughout the night. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night. \n 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-party-with-carrie-etter/
LOCATION:The Lansdown\, 8 Clifton Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Noreen Masud – A Flat Place
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie will be interviewing Noreen Masud as part of Clifton LitFest 2024\, organised by the Friends of the Clifton Centre and Library. \nShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award 2024\, Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place has been described as raw and radical\, strange and beguiling – a love letter to Britain’s breathtaking flatlands\, from Orford Ness to Orkney\, and a reckoning with the painful\, hidden histories they contain. \nNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes – their stark beauty\, their formidable calm\, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world: the ‘flat place’ she carries inside herself\, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. Robert MacFarlane called it ‘sharp\, subtle and very moving’. Masud is a Lecturer in 20th Century Literature\, University of Bristol\, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. \nTickets available using the Eventbrite link.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/noreen-masud-a-flat-place/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Ultimate Dinosaurs with Ben Garrod
DESCRIPTION:Ultimate Dinosaurs is the hit sold-out stage show starring dinosaur aficionado Professor Ben Garrod. Get ready to go on an exciting pre-historic adventure as Ben talks you through the deadliest predators that ever roamed the planet.  Yes dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex\,  Allosaurus and Spinosaurus would have walked or swam right where you are now! \nPitting the knowledge of unwitting parents against their all-knowing kids\, Professor Ben presents an interactive\, educational and highly entertaining show.  So come and test your knowledge against Professor Ben in this hit live interactive show which is bigger and better than ever. \nHeron Books cannot wait for this brilliant show from local author\, academic\, conservationist and companion of Jack the dog\, Professor Ben Garrod. There are eight shows over half-term at the Tobacco Factory and we will be there with Ben’s books on extinct creatures\, chimpanzees and his rescue of Jack\, the original dog. \n30th October – 2nd November\, 11am and 2pm each day for one hour. \nAimed primarily at Key Stage 1 and 2 (ages 5-12) but suitable for all ages. 
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/ultimate-dinosaurs-with-ben-garrod/
LOCATION:Tobacco Factory Theatre\, The Tobacco Factory\, Raleigh Rd\, Bristol\, BS3 1TF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Stage show
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SUMMARY:Brad Evans
DESCRIPTION:How Black Was My Valley : Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland\nHeron Books is delighted to support this event with author Brad Evans hosted by the Friends of Clifton Centre and Library \nHow Black Was My Valley is a people’s history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political\, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and suffering\, the tragedy and pain\, as a politically abandoned people went from powering the British Empire and the Great Wars\, to a broken post-industrial community\, lost in time. It travels with devastating and yet humane insight across the dark shadows of the valley’s history. \nIn doing so\, it deals with disaster and resistance; memory and landscapes of despair; the brutal past and the neglected present; hardship and poverty; unemployment and isolation; lack of opportunity and the normalisation of hopelessness; death and suffering; structural violence and everyday subjugation; onto the crises of white male subjectivity and the exponential rise in drug abuse and personal suicide\, whose troubling effects can no longer be easily contained within its mountainous walls. This is not a story of resilience. Instead\, readers are taken on a journey into an open wound\, whose once silent screams can no longer be ignored. \nBar opens: 18.30\nBrad’s talk commences: 19.00\nFollowed by Q&A and book signing\nhttps://foccal.com/event/238
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/brad-evans/
LOCATION:Clifton Library\, 13 Princess Victoria St\, Bristol\, BS8 4BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Brian Bilston & Henry Normal
DESCRIPTION:Brian Bilston and Henry Normal appear together for the first time in a show which one critic has described as “two people reading some poems”. Along the way\, they will be drawing on their vast catalogue of crowd favourites – and throwing in new poems\, to prevent becoming their own tribute bands. \nWe are delighted to be supporting this event at St George’s\, Bristol. Look forward to seeing you there! \nFull details and tickets here: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/brian-bilston-henry-normal/
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/brian-bilston-henry-normal/
LOCATION:St George’s\, Bristol\, St George’s Bristol\, Great George Street\, Bristol\, BS1 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jan Carson - University of Bristol
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books will be at the University of Bristol\, with stacks of books by the brilliant Jan Carson\, winner of the EU Prize for Literature \nJan will be giving a reading and a Q&A\, organised by the English department. Not to be missed! \nYou can order Quickly\, While They Still Have Horses or The Raptures through the links and we will bring them to the event or send us an email (read [@] heronbooks.co.uk) to reserve a copy at the event. \nTuesday\, 15 October\, 3-4 p.m.\, 1.H020 Humanities Research Space\, Woodland Road\, BS8 1TB
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/jan-carson-university-of-bristol/
LOCATION:Arts Complex\, University of Bristol\, Arts Complex Woodland Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons – Glyn Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Glyn Maxwell\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 12th October. \nGlyn 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. \nSilly 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. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets 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. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Kaycee Hill\, followed by Glyn’s reading. \nKaycee 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.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-glyn-maxwell/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Susie Alegre: Human Rights\, Robot Wrongs
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to be supporting the Bristol Humanists’ Emma Martin Lecture \nHuman Rights\, Robot Wrongs – being human in the age of AI\nSusie Alegre\, barrister & human rights lawyer\n \nIn her first book\, Freedom to Think\, Susie Alegre explored the history of legal freedoms around what we think. In her new book\, she has now turned her attention to the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future\, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives\, from how we think to who we love. \nSusie Alegre will explore the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights – including the rights to life\, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression – and how we protect those rights. Susie will touch on the many profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies\, and illustrate these through a number of case studies. \n“Eye-opening… acknowledging the fallibility of machines and the need to hold those responsible for harm to account …” – Marina Wheeler\, New Statesman\n“Alegre’s sharp legal brain conjures up the wicked problems of AI and provides a legal blueprint for humanity’s survival. Utterly brilliant.” ― Baroness Helena Kennedy\n“This is a thought-provoking\, challenging\, and very humane book\, which in an ideal world would be required reading in every Silicon Valley boardroom” ― Michael Wooldridge \nSusie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer & barrister who has worked for NGOs like Amnesty International and international organisations\, such as the UN\, around the world. She is currently a Member of the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\, as well as a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in the field of digital rights. Susie’s first book\, Freedom to Think\, received wide acclaim\, was chosen as a Book of the Year 2022 by the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph\, and longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing and shortlisted for the Christopher Bland Prize. She is a patron of Humanists UK. \nEmma Martin was Bristol’s most important freethinker\, feminist and human rights campaigner. In her short life (1812-1851)\, she went from committed Christian to outspoken atheist/freethinker working for the Owenites\, speaking to thousands and publishing pamphlets on the role of the church and on women’s rights. Later on she trained as a midwife and campaigned on reproductive rights. She has a blue plaque dedicated to her in Bridewell Street\, and annually Bristol Humanists celebrate her life with this special talk. \nThis is a ticketed event\, price £5 (full) or £3 (concession). Tickets available here https://www.wegottickets.com/event/630501 in advance. Note that if you are a member of Bristol Humanists you will receive an email with discount code.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/susie-alegre-human-rights-robot-wrongs/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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SUMMARY:Orla Owen: Christ on a Bike
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Christ On A Bike by Orla Owen\n  \nWe are delighted to host Orla Owen to celebrate her latest novel\, Christ On A Bike. \nCerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must be followed. \nAs she settles into her new life\, she begins to feel trapped: the past is ever-present. She convinces herself that the villagers are watching her and\, desperate to control her own future\, she tries to break free… \nOrla Owen was born in Belfast\, and raised in Ireland and the UK. Christ On A Bike\, published by the award winning Bluemoose Books\, has been described as ‘strikingly original and utterly brilliant’. It was picked as a recommended read by Nina Pottell from Prima Magazine\, who reviewed it as ‘Black Mirror meets Tales of The Unexpected with shades of Shirley Jackson’ and was recommended as a read for January by Martin Chilton\, The Independent’s Chief Book Critic. \nBefore she was a writer\, Orla was an actress and drama practitioner\, studying Theatre at Bretton Hall College of the Arts\, and from a young age\, she knew she wanted to be a storyteller. \nTickets include a glass of wine on arrival. Tickets are £5 or free with the purchase of Christ On A Bike.\nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the book on the night.\nBook orders will be available to collect and get signed at the event.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/orla-owen-christ-on-a-bike/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Poetry in Herons – Elizabeth Parker
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has been cancelled due to illness. We apologise for any inconvenience. If you had already bought a ticket\, we have sent you an email about this. Do get in touch if you have any questions.\nJoin us for Poetry In Herons with Elizabeth Parker\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry reading. 6pm\, Saturday 14th September. \nIn September we are celebrating the publication of Cormorant\, the second collection from Elizabeth Parker. \nElizabeth Parker was born in London and grew up in Pygmy Pinetum Garden Nurseries\, a garden centre in The Forest of Dean. She lives in Bristol with her partner and two sons. Elizabeth was a secondary school English teacher for eight years and is writing two novels based on her experiences teaching Shakespeare to teenagers. \nElizabeth’s poetry has been published in various journals and has won and been shortlisted for a range of prizes. Following her 2016 pamphlet\, Antinopolis (published by Eyewear)\, Elizabeth’s first full collection\, In Her Shambles\, was published by Seren Books in April 2018 and her second collection\, Cormorant\, was published by Seren this February. Elizabeth is a founding member of Bristol poetry quartet The Spoke\, who perform their work at festivals and events. She is also co-host of monthly Bristol poetry event Under The Red Guitar. \nElizabeth is currently experimenting with poetic forms as she works on a long poem about her wonderful father\, who has late-stage dementia\, and a collection about the life and sudden loss of her sister\, the playwright and glorious human being Helen K Parker. Her cormorants continue\, as she has just begun to draft a poem titled ‘Helen As Cormorant’. \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of Cormorant. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event. \nThe evening will begin with a reading from Julie-Ann Rowell\, followed by Elizabeth’s reading. \nJulie-Ann Rowell is a multi-award-winning poet. She won first prize in the Grey Hen Press Poetry Competition\, in the Frogmore Poetry Prize and the New Writer Poetry Competition Short Collection prize. Her pamphlet collection Convergence was selected as a recommended read by the Poetry Book Society. She was a runner-up twice in the Bridport Prize. Her latest collection\, Inside Out\, was short-listed for the Welsh International Poetry Collection competition 2023.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-elizabeth-parker/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Bristol Humanists: Rebecca Nesbitt
DESCRIPTION:Tickets for the Ark; why conservationists needs philosophy\nScience and ecology communicator Rebecca Nesbitt explores the underlying\, largely invisible\, philosophy and values which sit beneath wildlife conservation. \nA central dilemma of wildlife conservation is setting priorities to inform where limited funds are best spent.\nCan we be guided by science alone? Or do we also need philosophy to help us protect the natural world? \nRebecca will speak about her exploration of these questions & the effect it has had on her work on conservation for the benefit of all animals\, including humans. \nOf her recent book Tickets for the Ark New Scientist said\, “This is an ambitious and entertaining book\, which foresees a dynamic and creative role for conservation in the future.” \nRebecca will speak about her journey as a wildlife conservationist\, how philosophy and her understanding of colonialism and patriarchy\, both change and redirect her work. \nDr Rebecca Nesbit is author of Tickets for the Ark\, which tackles tough choices in wildlife conservation. Using case studies from around the world\, the book challenges some of our deeply held views about what the natural world should look like. \nRebecca studied butterfly migration for her PhD\, then worked for a start-up company training honeybees to detect explosives. She now works in science communication and her projects have ranged from a citizen science flying ant survey to visiting universities around the world with Nobel Prize Laureates. Her first popular science book Is That Fish in your Tomato? explores the fact and fiction of GM foods. \nAll are welcome\, whether Bristol Humanists member\, or not. The event is FREE if you are a member\, or £3/£1 if not.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/bristol-humanists-rebecca-nesbitt/
LOCATION:Unitarian Meeting Hall\, Brunswick Square\, Bristol\, BS2 8PE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bristol Humanists":MAILTO:bristolhumanists@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Herons – Martyn Crucefix
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Poetry In Herons with Martyn Crucefix\nJoin us in the Arcade after hours for our monthly poetry series. 6pm\, Saturday 17th August. \nWe will be celebrating the publication of Martyn’s translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry\, Change Your Life.  \nMore about Martyn Crucefix\nBetween a Drowning Man is published by Salt (2023). His Duino Elegies (Enitharmon\, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation. Recent publications: Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions\, 2019); These Numbered Days\, poems by Peter Huchel (Shearsman\, 2019) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize\, 2020. Translations of essays by Lutz Seiler\, In Case of Loss\, have been published by And Other Stories in 2023. His major Rilke Selected\, Change Your Life\, is published by Pushkin Press (2024). Until recently\, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library. Blogging at http://www.martyncrucefix.com \nYou can buy tickets in advance online or in the shop.\nTickets are £4 or free with the purchase of Change Your Life. All tickets include a glass of something sparkling on arrival. \nTickets are fully redeemable against buying the books on the night.\nBook orders will be ready for you to pick up and get signed at the event.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry-in-herons-martyn-crucefix/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heron Books":MAILTO:read@heronbooks.co.uk
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SUMMARY:A Night of Black Queer Literature
DESCRIPTION:The RWA hosts\nTo Read: A night of Black Queer Literature\nOn Thursday 18 July 2024\, 6.30pm\, Heron Books is delighted to support this event.\nAs a farewell celebration\, Kiki Bristol* will present an evening of readings and literature\, with space for people to listen\, reflect and connect. \nLine up: \nTravis Alabanza is an award-winning writer and theatre maker. Their book None of the Above won the Jhalak literary prize\, Somerset Maugham award and was listed in TIME Magazines top 100 books of 2023. \nJackson King is a cultural troublemaker\, writer and journalist. As a Bajan-Jamaican\, a trans man\, a bisexual\, and a BDSM practitioner born in ‘babylon’ (Britain)\, his work aims to build and destroy. Disrupting empire logics\, cisheteropatriarchy and the politics of purity – while nurturing Black\, queer and kink-affirming cultures\, King’s work has appeared across the BBC\, The Guardian\, The iPaper\, PinkNews\, Metro\, Dope Black Queers\, Gender Reveal and more. \nDr Okechukwu Nzelu is a Manchester-based writer. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award. His debut novel\, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney\, won a Betty Trask Award. His second novel\, Here Again Now\, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award\, the Polari Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Diverse Book Awards. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. \nThe evening will be hosted by Kiki’s Dr Myles-Jay Linton and music will be provided by Kiki co-founder DJ Devolicious. The event will also include a facilitated panel discussion with the performers. \nYou are welcome to join – whether you identify as an LGBTQ person of colour or not. However this event does aim to particularly encourage attendance from people who have traditionally felt marginalised from arts institutions such as RWA. In keeping with RWA policy and ethos\, no racism\, homophobia\, transphobia or any other –ism or schism will be tolerated. \nLimited places available – book now to avoid disappointment! \nThis project has been supported by Bristol Pride Community Fund. \n* Kiki Bristol was founded in 2017\, as a community organisation providing space for QTIBPOC (Queer\, Trans\, Intersex\, Black People & People of Colour) and our friends/family to meet. \nPhoto credits: Alex Douglas & Griff Townsend \nTo Read: A night of Black Queer Literature
URL:https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/a-night-of-black-queer-literature/
LOCATION:RWA\, Royal West of England Academy\, Queen's Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1PX
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
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