Indie Press Network - Inaugural Poetry Salon

Contact: cherry@arachnepress.com

Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-press-network-inaugural-salon-tickets-1227723035649

Keats House and the Indie Press Network invite you to the Indie Press Poetry Salon where five different independent poetry publishers will present their latest poetry collections. This is not meant to be a traditional poetry reading, hence the 'salon' name. A selection of poems from each book will be read in ten-minute slots. There will be intervals for poets, audience and publishers to meet and mingle informally to exchange ideas and comments.

Participants
Kevin Harrison (Goat Star Books) will present and read from Bill Lewis the Shaman Poet / El poeta chamán, a bilingual English/Spanish anthology of the work of Bill Lewis, (Maidstone, Kent, 1953). He is an English artist, storyteller, poet and mythographer. He was a founder-member of The Medway Poets and, later, also a member of the Stuckists art group.

Cherry Potts (Arachne Press) will present Joy//Us – an anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry. These are joyful poems that celebrate all that is best about the lives of those communities. The poems will be read by Steph Morris, Tom McLaughlin and Cherry Potts
https://indiepressnetwork.com/books/joy-us-poems-of-queer-joy/

Will Dady (Renard Press): will present There’s No Pluto in this Suite, a playful collection that blends formal and free verse, lyric and narrative, and in which the profound rubs shoulders with the messy and the patently mysterious. The poems will be read by Erin Clark
https://indiepressnetwork.com/books/theres-no-pluto-in-this-suite/

Goran Baba Ali (Afsana Press) will present Songs of Freedom, a collection by Ten women poets from Iran and Afghanistan who share their ideas, emotions, desires and worldviews in a celebration of life and freedom. This is poetry as resistance as well as beauty. The poems will be read by Mehrangiz Rassapour.
https://indiepressnetwork.com/books/songs-of-freedom-an-anthology-by-iranian-and-afghan-women-poets/

Finally, our special guest, poet and singer-songwriter Gabriel Moreno, will read poems and sing us some songs from his independently published collection “"Nights In The Belly Of Bohemia", a most intimate and revealing book and album. The songs all refer or allude to Gabriel´s experiences in the night in Gibraltar, Barcelona, New York and London. There is romance, there is melancholy, there is intoxication and hopefulness too.
https://www.instagram.com/gabrielangelmoreno77/reel/DC4fFiYuA5t/

Price: £10.00 / £6.00. (includes private entry to the house and refreshments)

Time: 2:00pm (ends at 4pm)