You are warmly invited to the next Peninsula Arts Poetry Reading:
Tuesday, 8 March at 7pm (wine reception from 6pm)
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Featured readers are ANTHONY CALESHU (Professor of Poetry at Plymouth University) and JOHN MCAULIFFE (Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester).
Anthony Caleshu’s third book of poetry, THE VICTOR POEMS, was published by Shearsman in late 2015. It’s been called a ‘a wild ride, an arctic adventure, a spirited quest narrative, a mad love poem to the imagination in all its unstrung wild joys’ and features poems which have appeared in Poetry Review, Best British Poetry 2014, and Boston Review (as winner of the Boston Review Poetry Prize 2010). His second book of poems, OF WHALES, was a ‘book of the year’ in the Daily Telegraph, and his first book THE SIEGE OF THE BODY AND A BRIEF RESPITE, was reviewed as ‘Intelligent, imaginative, and mercilessly witty, a rewarding and extraordinary debut.’ He was the founding editor of ‘the visual literary journal, SHORT FICTION’ (2007-2016) and is the founding editor of the new poetry press, Periplum. He is Professor of Poetry at Plymouth University. Read some of his poems here.
John McAuliffe is an Irish poet who has lived and worked in England since 2002. His fourth book, THE WAY IN, was published in 2015 by The Gallery Press, and has been praised for John’s “mastery of ‘domestic spaces and routines’… a “daring recourse”‘ for his exploration of contemporary Ireland and England. His earlier books were OF ALL PLACES (2011), which was a PBS Recommendation, NEXT DOOR (2007) and A BETTER LIFE (2002), which was shortlisted for a Forward prize. He co-directs the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester where he teaches poetry and co-edits The Manchester Review. He also writes a monthly poetry column for The Irish Times. Read a short review and a poem here.
Tickets cost £6.60 (£4.50 concessions)
The event is free to Plymouth University students and Peninsula Arts Friends.
Tickets will be available on the night or may be reserved in advance: phone +44 1752 585050, or online.