Truth and Lies – Indigo Dreams Showcase

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Indigo Dreams is an award-winning publisher renowned for its beautifully produced collections of contemporary poetry by both new and established writers. Join us for Truth and Lies – a showcase featuring four exciting poets – Alyson Hallett, Jean Atkin, Paul McGrane and Nicola Jackson.

Alyson Hallett’s poetry has been described as ‘As fresh as anything, the voice just jumps straight out at you’ by Jackie Kay. Alyson reads from ‘LZRD’ (co-written with Penelope Shuttle).

Jean Atkin‘s work maps memory, work, loss, and place. Her poetry has been commissioned for Radio 4 and she was the first ever Troubadour of the Hills thanks to the Ledbury Poetry Festival. ‘Jean Atkin examines the detail of other lives and her own, holding, scrutinising and revealing them in deft, luminous imagery’ – Anna Crowe.

Nicola Jackson‘s first collection gained the Geoff Stevens’ Memorial Prize and is a Morning Star poetry book of the year: Difficult Women explores the suffering and celebrates the courage of women exploited in the industrial age and beyond.‘ Rich, imaginatively complex, rooted in research as well as empathy but also unbearably raw.’ – Geraldine Wall.

Paul McGrane‘s Geoff Stevens’ Memorial Prize winning collection unites and shapes contemporary life and has many little miracles of its own. ‘The ordinary man in the street given a voice. These poems are well-crafted, not a word wasted; This is a very enjoyable collection’ – Write Out Loud

Price: £9.00 / £7.00

Time: 7:00pm