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A Kingdom of Love: Rachel Mann & Roz Kaveney

This event on 18th March 2020 at 19:00 has past.

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We are very excited to announce a poetry event at Housmans in collaboration with Carcanet Press, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of classical and modern poetry of our time.

Anglican priest, poet, writer and broadcaster Rachel Mann will be reading from her highly praised A Kingdom of Love, a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world. Whilst framed within the language of Christianity, Mann interrogates the dominant linguistic and mythic inheritances of religious discourse. Furthermore, she writes of connection and of faith in a way that will resonate with non-religious readers. A meditation also on the spiritual vs. the material, Mann eschews didacticism in A Kingdom of Love and urges us through her verses to reflect on the ways in which we can connect with one another and move forward in these difficult times.

After a reading from A Kingdom of Love, Rachel will be in conversation with writer, critic, and poet the brilliant Roz Kaveney about all things sacred and profane.

Speakers

Rachel Mann is an Anglican parish priest and writer. She was Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Cathedral between 2009 and 2017 and is the author of five books, including Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God (DLT 2017). She is Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing and English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry was anthologised in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII (2018).

In addition she writes on music, particularly prog, folk and metal. She was Metal/Rock reviewer for manchestermusic.co.uk. She works freelance for magazines like Prog Magazine and The Quietus.

Roz Kaveney

I'm a bit older than most people in the fandom - I just turned 52. I have a long and complicated personal history which I am in the process of turning into a huge memoir; crucial facts are that I was reared Catholic but got over it, was born male but got over it, stopped sleeping with boys about the time I stopped being one and am much happier than I was when I was younger.

A UK resident who has lived in the US a bit, I have a certain distinction in the SF field as a critic, have at various points been seriously involved in civil liberties and anticensorship politics and write for various reasonably reputable newspapers and periodicals

I like moonlighting as a committed fan - I never had that much serious credibility to lose, and haven't lost what I had anyway.

I spend too much time listening to an unholy mixture of Bach, Shostakovich, Springsteen, Patti Smith, Ella Fitzgerald and Lotte Lenya.

Entry: £1, £3 or £5

Time: 7:00pm (Doors 30 min before start)

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