Saturday 12 April / 2–4 pm / Open Eye Gallery / free, RSVP
Eleanor Rees reads live from her new Portent and Portals: New and Selected Poems, a book which gathers a body of work written over three decades exploring post-industrial edgelands, cityscapes, parks and gardens, estuaries and shorelines, margins and peripheries, real and otherworlds. Drawing from five collections, out-of-print pamphlets and presenting new poems written with the Wirral peninsula, the selection also includes many collaborations, commissioned and participatory poems emerging from her ongoing practice as a local poet responding to place and communities with vivid imagination and poetic craft. Rees will be joined by Luke Thompson, editor, writer and publisher from Guillemot Press, Cornwall who will give an insight into small press publishing and creative book design followed by a Q&A hosted by Dr Pauline Rowe to explore the significance of Selected poems in a writing life of a poet, the editorial process and the broader themes alive in Rees’s poetry.
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