Three Urban Poets: admission free – all welcome - Events

Three Urban Poets: admission free – all welcome

Created by Carmel Shortall (See other events)

May 13, 2022 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm UTC+01
Location: All Good Bookshop, 35 Turnpike Lane N8 0EP
Latest Activity: May 10, 2022

This Friday - free event at the All Good Bookshop.

Welcome to the world of modern urban poetry! Anna Robinson, Selina Rodrigues and Ruth Valentine all write about places and scenes we know – a housing estate, a call centre, Grenfell Tower – with insight and humour and poetic skill.

Anna's third collection, Whatsname Street, tells the story of the estate in Waterloo where she still lives, in the voices and encounters of her predecessors.

In the shadows and whoops of the last party

she slipped back indoors and took down the curtains,

brown with war and the filth of outside

The Mother in Law's Nets

Ferocious is Selina's first full-length collection. She explores the world of work and the way we create our lives with and without it.

With a forest of hair a man

sleeps through this concertina

of noise, a body-length away.

Loose Change

Ruth's If You Want Thunder centres on a long poem celebrating the imagined lives of the residents of Grenfell Tower.

In the burning high-rise hive there are alphabets,

Arabic Tamil Ge’ez, there are apricots

A Grenfell Alphabet

Hear how the themes and styles of the three books both merge and contrast, as poems are woven together into a story of contemporary London. All three poets are published by Smokestack Books, which aims to revive the tradition of radical poetry in the UK.

Admission free – all welcome. Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30 start

poetry readings, live poetry, all good bookshop, what's on

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Wednesday 4 –24 December – Painting the Walk at Upstairs gallery, Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill N6, 12 noon – 3pm.

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All Good Bookshop has many regular events - book groups of course, also music, writing, yoga - and special events .... at 35 Turunpike Lane.

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