Winner of the 2014 Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publisher of the Year
John is a leading Welsh poet and environmentalist. A former editor of the magazine Planet, his collection of essays The King of Ashes won a Welsh Arts Council prize for literature.
John is appearing at the Knighton Literary Festival on 11th October 2024.
RACK PRESS AND SAGE DANCE COMPANY
AT BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL
Sage Dance Company and Rack Press Poetry
are presenting, at the Bloomsbury Festival in October, their latest collaboration:
a cabaret of dance, poetry and live music
exploring aspects of the festival theme, Human.Kind.
Sage Dance Company is a contemporary dance company for people of 55 yrs plus.
Rack Press Poetry is an independent small poetry press based in Wales.
Building on the success of many previous events they have created separately for Bloomsbury Festival and last year’s first joint venture, they have again joined forces with professional musicians, fellow dancers and poets to create a relaxing, entertaining and thought-provoking hour.
This year’s poets are Michèle Roberts and Nicholas Murray
each working with Sage choreographers.
The event will be on 19th October at
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
between 12.30 and 1.30
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Michèle Roberts is an award-winning poet and novelist who has also produced art and written for the theatre and TV.
Nicholas Murray’s most recent poetry collection is
River Run: For the Wye In Hard Times (Rack Press, 2024)
LAUNCH OF A NEW SERIES OF POETRY BROADSIDES
Rack Broadside No 1:
River Run: for the Wye in Hard Times
by Nicholas Murray
Published 23 April 2024
The first in a projected series of engaged poetry broadsides from Rack Press
presents a group of poems inspired by the current state of the River Wye.
Rack Broadsides can be ordered online here
Available now to pre-order from quick and easy Square link
at £3 each
plus £1 postage and packing per order
in protective all board envelope
We are pleased to invite you to a reading at Lumen in Bloomsbury by four Rack poets: Róisín Tierney, Stephen Capus, Martina Evans, and William Palmer at 6.30 for 7 on Tuesday 9th April.
Refreshments available
If you would like to order any of the poets’ work you can do so below.
We hope to see you there.
Here are our four new poets of 2023 launched in London on 16th June and seen here at the Music Room in Bloomsbury.
You can order here special packs of all four pamphlets in a set, each individually signed and numbered by the author, for £20 post-free.
Highly recommended.
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| Tuesday Shannon, Steve Griffiths, Michele Hutchison and William Palmer |
