Events

Pennine Poets’ Events

Events in 2012:

The Pennine Poets and York guests, followed by an 'open mic' celebration

Sunday 1st April

Event : Pennine Poets - Julia Deakin, Andrew Boobier, Josie Walsh and Pauline Kirk. Followed by 'open mic'.
Time : 6.00p.m - 8.30p.m.
Venue : Wolfe Room, upstairs at Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green, York [View Map]
Tickets : £4.00 from York Theatre Royal Box Office 01904 623568

Andrew Boobier attended York University where he gained a 1st class degree & won a prize for translating a French pornographic novel. His poetry collection, Reader, help me, was published by Graft Poetry in 2008.

Julia Deakin teaches at the University of Bradford. The Half-Mile-High Club was a Poetry Business Competition winner and her first collection, Without a Dog, appeared in 2008. Widely published, she has read on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please and won several first prizes, including the Yorkshire Open in 201.

Pauline Kirk is a performance poet, novelist and editor of Fighting Cock Press. Ten collections of her poetry and three novels have been published: Waters of Time, The Keepers and Foul Play (written with her daughter as PJ Quinn.) Her poems have also been set to music. She lives in York.

Josie Walsh has published two collections: Breathing Space (2004); Another Breath (2009). She is working on Breathing Still.

The reading will be followed by an 'open mic' for any writers who would like to read their work. Readers will be invited to make a small donation towards Festival Funds. Put your name down as you arrive if you would like to read then. It will be first come, first served!

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