at the Chequers in Chipping Norton
featuring Martin Malone
His
first full collection - The Waiting Hillside – is published by Templar
Poetry.
plus guest
poet Mark
Leech
Born in 1963 in West Hartlepool,
England, Martin Malone now teaches in Wiltshire. He is currently working on his
second collection, Failed Light, as
well as a collaborative collection with the poet Jo Bell with whom he recently
set up Small Lightnings Press. A winner of the 2011 Straid Poetry Award, the
Wivenhoe Poetry Competition and the 2012 Mirehouse Poetry Competition.
His
first full collection - The Waiting Hillside – is published by Templar
Poetry.
Martin Malone’s debut is breathtakingly assured – a rich attractively
male excavation of time and place, landscape and language, every word alert to
the elements without and their emotions within.
Carol Ann Duffy
Mark Leech's most recent chapbook, Chang'an
Poems, was published in January 2012. He has published long-poem sequences
on London's underground rivers and Saint Frideswide of Oxford as well as
translations from Spanish and Old English.
Mark Leech’s sequence of 41 poems centres on a tyrannical empire where
dissidents experience foreign exile and banished lovers can only dream of
homecoming and reconciliation. The ancient capital Chang’an has towers,
temples, parks, squares, courtyards — even jade rooms. A long bridge crosses a
river. Geese fly in bitter winter winds. A drunk looks deeply into his bottle.
Several elements of classic Chinese poetry are present....
Peter Jarvis
plus
open mic
Thursday 18th October 2012
6:30 for 7:00 pm
The Chequers
Goddards Lane
Chipping Norton
OX7 5NP
01608 644717
The event if free – but donations are gratefully received
and do buy the poets’ books!
For further information phone 07857 273695
or email thepatwinslow@gmail.com
Come early if you want to read at
the open mic!
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