My Life As a Painter Matthew Sweeney’s New Book
This event on 21st April 2018 at 18:30 has past.
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Join us to celebrate Matthew Sweeney’s new collection of poetry, My Life as a Painter.
This new book features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls. One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and there’s a parrot who speaks as ambassador for the bird world. The canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non-human can’t be fixed, dreams turn into torments, secrets stay hidden, strange communiqués remain unclear, and the natural weirdness of Matthew Sweeney’s native Donegal verges on the surreal.
Matthew will read a short selection of poems from the new book accompanied by his friends Christopher Reid, Maurice Riordan and Jo Shapcott.
Doors open at 6.30pm
Reading 7pm
Book signing, mingling and chat from 7.30pm
All ages welcome
Entry: Full price: £5, Concession: £3, Poetry Society Members: £3
Time: 6:30pm (6:30-8:30pm)
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