A event held at Bookhaus on Friday 5th September. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us for an evening with the multi-award-winning poet Suzannah V. Evans to celebrate the launch of her debut collection, Under the Blue. Suzannah will be joined by the poet Jack Thacker.
Under the Blue is an arresting, deeply candid exploration of both the shimmering beauty of life and the realities of care. Through a series of glittering fragmental prose poems and evocative postcards, Suzannah V. Evans has produced a kaleidoscopic meditation grounded by profound humanity and empathy – about intimacy and togetherness, sickness and pain, what can be said and what remains unsayable.
Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus.
‘A marvellous, wrenching collection’ – Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place
‘Under the Blue brims with sheer gladness for the gift of being alive, catching us in the complexity of pleasure and pain that is being bodies in this world.’ – Phoebe Power, author of Shrines of Upper Austria
‘Under the Blue is a breath-taking book . . . Suzannah V. Evans brings forensic observation and brave grace to turbulent waters and the infinitesimal rituals of care, and crafts a fierce credo of risk, rescue and radical tenderness’ – Nancy Campbell, author of Fifty Words for Snow
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2025). She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (Guillemot Press). A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s anthology New Poetries VIII. Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award, performed at international festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio.
Jack Thacker is a writer based in Bristol. His poetry has appeared in magazines such as Magma, PN Review, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, The Clearing and Caught by the River, and his pamphlet-length collection is Handling (Two Rivers Press).
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Under the Blue is an arresting, deeply candid exploration of both the shimmering beauty of life and the realities of care. Through a series of glittering fragmental prose poems and evocative postcards, Suzannah V. Evans has produced a kaleidoscopic meditation grounded by profound humanity and empathy – about intimacy and togetherness, sickness and pain, what can be said and what remains unsayable.
Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus.
‘A marvellous, wrenching collection’ – Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place
‘Under the Blue brims with sheer gladness for the gift of being alive, catching us in the complexity of pleasure and pain that is being bodies in this world.’ – Phoebe Power, author of Shrines of Upper Austria
‘Under the Blue is a breath-taking book . . . Suzannah V. Evans brings forensic observation and brave grace to turbulent waters and the infinitesimal rituals of care, and crafts a fierce credo of risk, rescue and radical tenderness’ – Nancy Campbell, author of Fifty Words for Snow
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2025). She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (Guillemot Press). A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s anthology New Poetries VIII. Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award, performed at international festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio.
Jack Thacker is a writer based in Bristol. His poetry has appeared in magazines such as Magma, PN Review, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, The Clearing and Caught by the River, and his pamphlet-length collection is Handling (Two Rivers Press).
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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