Join us for the launch of Caitlin Stobie's impressive debut collection Thin Slices, published by Verve Poetry Press. Thin Slices is an explosive collection of experiments in poetry, psychology and science. Flitting between lightness and the literary, Caitlin Stobie explores womanhood and the environment through a multitude of tiny worlds.Set between South Africa and the United...
'Babylon 29' by Jacqueline Bishop The University of Leeds Poetry Centre is delighted to be able to host the online launch of Stand volume 19: number 4 on May 25 at 18.00. This issue guest-edited by Malika Booker and Shara McCallum facilitates conversations between African American, Black British, & Caribbean Women & Women-Identifying...
Book Launch of Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee by Aaron Meskin and Helen Mort with jazz from Skwid Ink (Tight Lines) and hip-hop DJ set from Greg Surmacz (Paper Tiger/Captain Over) Co-sponsored by the Centre for Aesthetics, HPBC, The State of the Arts, and The University of Leeds Poetry Centre. What happens when poetry and...
Join us in the School of English on 6th December for an evening of poetry celebrating Martin Bell, Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds from 1967-69, and launching a posthumous collection of his translations of the French Surrealist poet, Robert Desnos.
Join us in celebrating the launch of the Verse Matters anthology, and to hear some of the contributors read. The anthology aims to harness the power of everyday, human stories in times of inequality and xenophobia.