Northern House/Carcanet launch 'Leaf Graffiti'

Contact: lucymcb2002@yahoo.co.uk

Northern House / Carcanet Press invite you to the launch of Leaf Graffiti, Lucy Burnett’s innovative and passionate debut poetry collection. Join us for an eclectic night of poetry featuring Lucy and brief invited readings by her friends and colleagues Scott Thurston, Nathan Thompson, Helen Tookey and Caroline Hawkridge.

Lucy Burnett’s poems are always moving, playfully exploring the interface between words and things, rural and urban, nature and the human world. She has previously been published in magazines including Stand, Poetry Wales, Shadowtrain and nthposition and for the last few years has taught Creative Writing at the Universities of Strathclyde and Salford, where she also completed her PhD.

Café bar available, good public transport links and easy parking opposite.

FREE no need to book. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY, http://www.anthonyburgess.org/visiting-us/how-to-find-us

Caroline Hawkridge wrote women's health books before completing a MA in Creative Writing at MMU, where she was nominated for Faber New Poets. She has been published magazines such as The Dark Horse, Magma and The Interpreter’s House. At present, she is poet-in-residence at the National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester.

Nathan Thompson was born in Cornwall and studied music at the University of Exeter, where he subsequently lectured part time in musicology. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and lives in Hebden Bridge. His collections of poetry include the arboretum towards the beginning and The Visitor's Guest from Shearsman, and pamphlets from Oystercatcher Press, Knives Forks & Spoons and Gratton Street Irregulars.

Scott Thurston’s books include Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011), Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010) and three collections with Shearsman: Internal Rhyme (2010), Momentum (2008) and Hold (2006). He co-organises The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester and co-edits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Scott has written widely on contemporary poetry and lectures at the University of Salford.

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor currently living in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, PN Review, New Walk, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt, forthcoming autumn 2013). Her first full-length collection Missel-Child is due from Carcanet in January 2014.

Entry: Free, no need to book

Time: 6:30pm