Peter Bennet and Tony Williams
A poetry reading
Location: Percy Building, Newcastle University, Room G.05
Time/Date: 8th December 2011, 19:00
Following the 2011 Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures comes a reading by two distinctively English poets, Peter Bennet and Tony Williams, introduced by Sean O’Brien.
Peter Bennet lives in rural Northumberland. The most recent of his many poetry collections, The Glass Swarm (Flambard, 2008), a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and The Game of Bear (Flambard, 2011). He is also a founder of the small imprint Enchiridion, which in 2010 published his supernatural ballad Bobby Bendick’s Ride, with illustrations by Birtley Aris.
Tony Williams’ first collection was The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street (Salt, 2009) and in 2011 he published All The Rooms in Uncle’s Head (Nine Arches Press). He teaches Creative Writing at Northumbria University and blogs at: aye-lass.blogspot.com
Tickets for this event are priced at £6/£4. You can find tickets for all of our events at our webstore. Alternatively, please contact Melanie Birch for further details: Melanie.Birch@ncl.ac.uk, 0191 222 7619.
Published: 1st September 2011