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Gestures: Writing that Moves Between

Rebecca Tamas
Dates:15 February 2019
Times:19:30 - 21:00
What is it:Literature Live
Organiser:Martin Harris Centre
How much:£7/£5
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public
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  • In category "Literature Live"
  • In group "(ALC) Centre for New Writing"
  • In group "(ALC) Art History and Visual Studies"
  • By Martin Harris Centre

Daisy Lafarge is a writer, artist and editor. In 2017 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and her poetry pamphlet, understudies for air, was published by Sad Press. She is an editor at MAP (a commissioning and publishing project for artist-led production) and is writing about animals and diseases at the University of Glasgow. Daisy was runner-up in the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

The title of Daisy's Gestures performance: Animals in a revolving door

Rebecca Tamás is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John, and a widely published poet, whose work explores the connections between the occult, ecological suffering and feminist consciousness. Rebecca’s pamphlets include Savage (Clinic Press, 2017) and Tiger (Bad Betty Press); her first full-length collection, WITCH, will be published by Penned in the Margins in 2019.

Holly Pester is a poet based in-between London and Essex (where she works). She has written poetry collections that explore gossip in the archive (Book Works 2015) and Lullabies as radical un-work songs (Test Centre 2016) and is currently writing new work about timing, particularly the timing of bogs, bodies, dairy, and comediennes. The title of Holly's Gestures performance: A deadline and a butter pat: Poems from Latent Time

To book please visit https://tinyurl.com/yb6b9bnq or telephone the Martin Harris Centre box office.

Price: £7/£5

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