Nine Arches Press: double launch

Contact: www.ninearchespress.com

You are invited to join us in celebrating the launch of Myra Connell's "From the Boat" and Simon Turner's "Difficult Second Album." Two brand new collections from Birmingham poets, launched this spring by Nine Arches Press.

With readings by Myra Connell and Simon Turner, with compere Julie Boden.

Simon Turner’s Difficult Second Album not only fulfils all the threats and promises of his debut, You Are Here (Heaventree, 2007), but also rightfully sees him take his place as a true troubadour of the surreal.

Featuring his most accomplished work to date, this second collection is not in fact difficult, but rather darkly precise, quick-witted and modestly bold. Turner has an eye for infectious and joyously offbeat lines, rendering both the incongruous and beautiful in his own version and voice.

Myra Connell's poems From the Boat come from a time of waiting, of mourning, and of finding small consolations. They are, many of them, small poems, the opposite of heroic. Bare, spare in mood, and exploring a sense of dislocation and disorientation, they look coldly at what is left when almost everything is pared away.

Entry: Free

Time: 3:00pm