POETRY READING AND PRIVATE VIEW

Note: held in Mian Hall at Blackburne House

JOURNEYS is a poetry reading and art preview.

Guest Poets: Andrew Taylor, Cath Nichols, Janine Pinion, Robert Sheppard, Patricia Farrell, Tom George, Ursula Hurley and further poets will be reading their works.
Artwork on display by Alice Lenkiewicz.

Books and pamphlets will be for sale. ...Come and join in our evening, listen to some poetry and enjoy a glass of wine.

Cath’s poetry collection My Glamorous Assistant (Headland Press) came out at the end of 2007, after the pamphlet Tales of Boy Nancy, in 2005.

Patricia Farrell is a poet and visual artist who has had work published in a number of magazines over the years and is featured in the Reality Street 4-Pack collection "New Tonal Language"'.

Robert Sheppard's recent poetry publications include Warrant Error (Shearsman), an extended response to the War on Terror and The Given (Knives Forks and Spoons), a fractured autobiography.

Janine Pinion is based in Wirral, Merseyside. She moved to Liverpool from Belfast in the late 1970s to study at Liverpool College of Art, and has been involved in the arts since then, both as a poet and artist.

Ursula Hurley is a nature poet whose work appears internationally in journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Tree, was recently published by Erbacce Press.

Andrew Taylor Liverpool based poet and co-editor of erbacce and erbacce-press. Author of eight collections of poetry, the latest 'The Sound of Light Aircraft' is published by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press.

Alice Lenkiewicz, artist and editor of Neon Highway poetry magazine has had two collections of poetry published. She will be exhibitng her images and text in the main hall as a story exhibition, 'Journey of the Bride' until the end of September.

Time: 6:30pm