New Words Festival presents a Poetry Reading with Alan Baker
Event Information
About this Event
Time to Read and Cumbria Libraries are thrilled to host poet, Alan Baker, one of ten literature events for the New Words Festival. Find all events at www.time-to-read.co.uk
About the Author
Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has lived in Nottingham since 1985, where he has been the publisher at Leafe Press for the last twenty years, and editor of its associated webzine Litter. He has published several poetry collections, including Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010 (Skysill, 2011), Letters from the Underworld (Red Ceilings, 2018) and Riverrun (Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2019). His latest collection is A Journal of Enlightened Panic (Shoestring, 2020). He has translated the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy and Abdellatif Laâbi.
Riverrun is available from the KFS Press website: https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
About the Event
The event will be held through Zoom. After you register, you will receive an email with the log-in details. The session will feature a reading by Alan, and questions from the audience will be taken through the chat feature.
About the New Words Festival
The New Words Festival is supported through public funding from Arts Council England.
