Launch of 'the terrible' by Daniel Sluman
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Join Nine Arches Press and the Institute for Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University to celebrate the launch of a new collection of poems:
the terrible by Daniel Sluman
Thursday 4th February 2016
from 6.00pm for 6.30pm start.
In Room C001, Birmingham City University, The Curzon Building, 4 Cardigan Street, BIRMINGHAM, B4 7BD.
With readings by poets Daniel Sluman, Angela France and David Clarke.
Praise for the terrible:
‘Daniel Sluman’s new collection explores acute and chronic, emotional and physical pain (and, albeit less often, pleasure) with a raw, compelling urgency. At times playful, at times harrowing, the terrible always brims with life.’ – Carrie Etter
‘Vivid and honest poems of intense experience, in which no wound is too deep to be cauterised by language.' – Jean Sprackland
‘This is a decadent work of painstaking beauty. Its sophisticated chromatic spectrum is fevered with a minimal though striking palette of monochrome and the occasional burst of pure, visceral colour.’ – Melissa Lee-Houghton
'Each moment of hope they reveal is as fragile and beautiful as a lit match in a cellar.’ – John McCullough
Daniel Sluman is a 29-year-old poet and disability rights activist based in Oxfordshire, UK. He gained a BA and MA in Creative Writing from the University of Gloucestershire, and has previously held editorial roles at Dead Ink, Iota, and the award-winning disability anthology FTW: Poets against Atos. He was named one of Huffington Post’s Top 5 British Poets to Watch in 2015, and his debut poetry collection Absence has a weight of its own was released by Nine Arches Press to critical acclaim in 2012. His latest collection of poems is the terrible.
David Clarke was born in Lincolnshire and now lives in Gloucestershire. He works as a teacher and researcher. His poems have appeared in magazines including Iota, Anon, Under the Radar and New Walk. His pamphlet, Gaud, was published by Flarestack Poets in 2012. His debut collection of poems, Arc, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015.
Angela France has had poems published in many of the leading journals, in the UK and abroad and has been anthologised a number of times. She has an MA in ‘Creative and Critical Writing’ from the University of Gloucestershire and is studying for a PhD. Publications include Occupation (Ragged Raven Press) and Lessons in Mallemaroking (Nine Arches Press). Angela is features editor of Iota and runs a monthly poetry cafe, ‘Buzzwords’. Her most recent collection, Hide, was published by Nine Arches Press in March 2013.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
