Poetry Readings:
Wednesday 2 June & Friday 18th June
THIS WEDNESDAY (2nd JUNE), 7pm at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
JOHN LYONS and ALAN PAYNE reading their brilliant poems
as part of a Caribbean food evening — rather special food and drink included in the admission price!
JOHN LYONS has an international reputation as a poet and poetry-perfomer, and tonight will also be reading from his successful cook book, Cook Up in a Trini Kitchen, 'a feast for the senses'.
ALAN PAYNE was born in the Caribbean and arrived in England by boat in 1959. He lives in Sheffield. His pamphlet Exploring the Orinoco is launched tonight — an outstanding short collection, it was chosen by Andrew Motion as a winner in the 2009/10 Poetry Business Competition.
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FRIDAY 18th JUNE, 6.30-8pm at The Tree House, York University
CAROLE BROMLEY, MIKE Di PLACIDO and MICHAEL McCARTHY
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 overall 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.
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The Poetry Business receives financial assistance from Arts Council England.
