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Poetry reading in York

Also, three Smith/Doorstop poets — Carole Bromley, Michael McCarthy & Mike di Placido — are reading in York on Friday. The event will be held at The Tree House, Berrick Saul Building, York University, at 6:30pm (until 8pm). Tickets are £3 (£2 concs) and available on the door. All welcome.

Carole Bromley has won many awards, including the prestigious Bridport Poetry Prize and the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition.  She has two quietly excellent pamphlet collections from Smith/Doorstop Books, and is well-known as a tutor and entertaining reader of her work.  She teaches poetry in the continuing education department at York University.

Mike Di Placido's pamphlet Theatre of Dreams (2009) features a short sequence about Man Utd — with affectionate pen-portraits of Denis Law, Nobby Stiles and George Best, as well as poems of family life and often very funny observations of daily life.  A former ex-professional footballer, he now lives and writes full time in Seamer.

Michael McCarthy has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and was outright winner of the Poetry Business Competition in 2008/9, judged by Michael Longley.  He grew up on a farm in West Cork and for many years has been a parish priest in Sherburn-in-Elmet.  Michael is one of the best and best-loved poetry story-tellers now writing.