A event held at Bookhaus on Friday 1st November. The event starts at 19:00.
Poet and Bristol lecturer Carrie Etter presents three exciting poets, with Kaycee Hill Claire Crowther and Samantha Walton.
Claire Crowther has published six collections from Shearsman. Real Lear: New and Selected Poems and Sense and Nonsense, a collection of her critical prose edited by Carrie Etter, will be published in October 2024. Stretch of Closures was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection and Solar Cruise was chosen for a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University and is Deputy/Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine.
Kaycee Hill is a working-class, mixed-heritage poet studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and received mentorship from Malika Booker. Kaycee’s poetry has been published in Poetry Review and Five Dials, and commended by the Young Poets Network. Her words are found on Young Poets Stories, the British Museum’s YouTube channel, and in various anthologies. Bloodaxe recently published her debut collection, Hot Sauce.
Samantha Walton is a Bristol-based writer, publisher and academic interested in ecology and literature. She is the author of Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure and The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought. She has also published a poetry collection—Self Heal—and a narrative apocalypse poem called Bad Moon. Samantha is Professor of Modern Literature at Bath Spa University, where she runs the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities.
The evening will be hosted by Carrie Etter.
Tickets are £6 and include a glass of wine/soft drink and £2 off the authors books.
Presented by Bookhaus
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Claire Crowther has published six collections from Shearsman. Real Lear: New and Selected Poems and Sense and Nonsense, a collection of her critical prose edited by Carrie Etter, will be published in October 2024. Stretch of Closures was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection and Solar Cruise was chosen for a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University and is Deputy/Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine.
Kaycee Hill is a working-class, mixed-heritage poet studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. She won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and received mentorship from Malika Booker. Kaycee’s poetry has been published in Poetry Review and Five Dials, and commended by the Young Poets Network. Her words are found on Young Poets Stories, the British Museum’s YouTube channel, and in various anthologies. Bloodaxe recently published her debut collection, Hot Sauce.
Samantha Walton is a Bristol-based writer, publisher and academic interested in ecology and literature. She is the author of Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure and The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought. She has also published a poetry collection—Self Heal—and a narrative apocalypse poem called Bad Moon. Samantha is Professor of Modern Literature at Bath Spa University, where she runs the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities.
The evening will be hosted by Carrie Etter.
Tickets are £6 and include a glass of wine/soft drink and £2 off the authors books.
Presented by Bookhaus
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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