Poetry
Events
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Poetry in Herons: Kate Noakes
Heron Books 7a Regent Street, Bristol, United KingdomWe are delighted to launch Kate Noakes' latest collection, Sublime Lungs
Please join us for a drink, a poetry reading and book signing.
In Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes turns her attention to the breath. For the first time, she explores her lifelong asthma and explains the impact of this chronic and disabling condition. The breath and breathing are subjects for poems from many chronologies and geographies in this her ninth collection.
Kate Noakes is the author of nine collections of poetry, one pamphlet and one book of non-fiction. She has a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of Reading. She recently moved from London to Bristol, where she co-founded the poetry performance group, Braid. She was elected to the Welsh Academy of Letters in 2011 and her website (www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com) is archived by the National Library of Wales.
The event is free but please let us know that you are coming so that we can provide a seat and a drink. RSVP to read@heronbooks.mom.
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The Poetry of Phoebe Giannisi
Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomHeron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition: A Performance with Phoebe Giannisi and Poet-Translator Brian Sneeden.
A leading contemporary Greek poet, Phoebe Giannisi brings together poetry, performance, ecology, and antiquity in explorations of language, place, and the living world. Copies of her book, Goatsong, will be for sale on the night.
Phoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, and co-editor of the literary journal frmk. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler, Gregor Laschen, Jesper Svenbro and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos, Greece.
Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018). His poetry and translations have received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and other recognitions. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
