Online Book Launch: Harry Man, Tamar Yoseloff and guest Sean O'Brien
Celebrating new poetry collections by Harry Man and Tamar Yoseloff, with guest Sean O'Brien
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Join Harry Man and Tamar Yoseloff at their Double Online Book Launch, celebrating the publication of their poetry collections, Popular Song and Belief Systems.
With guest poet Sean O'Brien, whose latest collection is Embark.
on Tuesday 4th June, 7.30pm (BST)
This event will be delivered as a live Zoom webinar, with optional live captions. Those who register to 'attend' will receive an event link by email on the day of the event.
Popular Song, the much-anticipated debut collection by Harry Man, is a jukebox filled with new favourites. Playful and cosmic, these poems connect with a wonder-filled verbal and melodic energy, considering both the fragility of our position on Earth as well as the hold of our intimacy while we are still bound by its gravity.
'Poems that are frequently tremendously funny and inventive in their processes … beautiful, frightening and convincing.’ – Luke Kennard
Belief Systems by Tamar Yoseloff is a call to make something worthwhile from the wreckage of our world, in the spirit of the radical artists she evokes, such as John Latham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg – visionaries who located power and beauty in what is forgotten. A stunningly illustrated collection, with colour plates, centred on art and creation. A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation.
'These poems in their hope and their despair serve to remind us of the enduring and universal power of art to move and change us.' - Jacqueline Saphra
We're delighted that Sean O'Brien will be joining us to read at this online Book Launch:
Sean O’Brien’s eleventh collection of poems, Embark, was published by Picador in 2022. His chapbook Impasse: for Jules Maigret appeared from Hercules Editions in 2023. He is the recipient of awards including the T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster and (three times) the Forward Prize. His translations include the Inferno and the Kazakh national poet Abai Kunanbayuli. His own work has been widely translated. He has written for the Royal National Theatre, for the RSC/ Live Theatre and for the ENO. He is a novelist, short story writer and a poetry critic. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
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