Poetry readings

Reading by Jocelyn Saidenberg

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Tuesday 3rd November 2020, 7-8.30pm Jocelyn Saidenberg is a writer, educator, and performer based in the Bay Area. Her recent books include: kith & kin (The Elephants, 2018), Dead Letter (Roof Books, 2014), and Negativity (Atelos Press, 2007). In her work she wagers that poetry has the capacity to open up imaginative, psychic, and structural … Read more

An evening with Miguel d’Ors

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1st April 2020, 6pm ‘It’s a strange thing to be a poet’ Co-hosted by Byre World Miguel d’Ors is one of Spain’s foremost contemporary poets. He has published 13 books of poetry, which have recently been collected in the volume Poesías completas 2019. Varied and diverse in terms of its themes, tones, influences and approaches ­­(albeit, … Read more

Stanza 2019 Festival

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10th March 2019, 1-2pm Town Hall, Queens Gdns – Council Chamber We were delighted to support the Palestinian Poetry Showcase Palestinian poet born in Damascus, Ghayath Almadhoun, and his translator, Catherine Cobham, read poems from Adrenalin (Action Books, 2017. Mustafa Abu Sneineh read some of his poems published in A Blade of Grass (Smokestacks books, … Read more

Spanish poets in the UK

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Nothing is Lost, by Jordi Doce & Selected Poems, by Eduardo Moga 13th October 2017 Byre Theatre (Studio, 5.15-7pm) Jordi Doce, born in 1967, is a poet and literary critic. He has translated the work of W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes and Charles Tomlinson, among others. He currently lives in Madrid, where he works as … Read more

Poetry Reading by Dr Oli Hazzard

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18th November 2016, 5.30-7pm Byre Theatre Studio Oli’s first collection of poems, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, 2012), won the English Association’s Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and was a book of the year in the Guardian, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement. A pamphlet of prose poems, Within … Read more

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