Hugh Dunkerley's launch of Hare

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Join Hugh Dunkerley for a reading to launch Hare:
The Iambic Arts Theatre, 38 Gardner Street, Brighton.
May 22nd at 3.00; Tickets: £6, (£5 concessions)


“What I admire about Hugh Dunkerley’s poetry is the spareness and clarity of his language: his ability to tackle the extremities of experience – death, sex, loss, the ruthlessness of nature – with a vision which is unsentimental and yet profoundly moving.”
Vicki Feaver

Hugh Dunkerley lectures in Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry and the Environment in Chichester, He has a particular interest in environmentalism and ecocriticism. His chapbook, Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press), came out in 1997. and Fast (Pighog Press) was published in 2007. He also writes articles on contemporary poetry as well as reviewing for various magazines.

An extract from Hare

Cycle

Is this the body’s way of mourning,
the slow tide seeping between your legs,
an egg in there somewhere, smaller than a pinprick?

Whatever assignation was hoped for, it never happened:
my sperm arriving too late or not at all,
the egg’s faint hormonal cry lost in a chemical static.

Every month your womb coughs them out,
these unmanned craft, adrift in a sea of blood,
Maydays from the body’s dream of resurrection.

Price: £6.00 / £5.00

Time: 3:00pm