Park Street Poetry

Contact: davidbriggs72@btinternet.com

The first of a brand new series of poetry readings featuring some of the finest poets in the language.

Featuring:

Matthew Caley - a London-based troubadour. His third collection, Apparently (Bloodaxe 2010) is a book luxuriating in the fabulous lie. John Hartley Williams writes 'Somebody with the intelligence, wit and vocabulary to crack open a cultural canape ...a book to delight and amaze long after you've fallen off the chaise longue'

Patrick Brandon - a Bristol-based poet and painter. A Republic of Linen (Bloodaxe 2009) is his first collection of poems and it has been shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe Award. Roddy Lumsden observes that Brandon's poems are 'strangely confident, and confidently strange'

John McCullough lives and writes in Brighton. Jhon will be launching his debut collection The Frost Fairs (Salt 2011), a book of which Lee Harwood writes: 'These vivid moving poems have such a sharp eye for those telling daily details poems that are so solidly tangible and believable.'

Rachel Boast is launching her first collection Sidereal (Picador 2011), a book 'dominated by astral influence and divine chance; but, despite its celestial title, full of terrestrial concerns, the traffic and chaos of the human and natural worlds.' This striking debut announces an important new voice in British poetry.

Also performing will be resident songsmith, Bristol-based singer-songwriter Shaun McCrindle whose songs feature (among other things), ghosts in Donegal, swan-eating in the Orkneys and an unexpected encounter with Bob Dylan in a joke shop on Colston Street.

Hosted by David Briggs, author of The Method Men (Salt 2010)

Time: 8:00pm