A event on Thursday 20th March. The event starts at 19:00.
***This event has sold out.
To be added to the waiting list please email [email protected]
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Gloucester Road Books hosts the award-winning, much-loved Bristol poet, Tom Sastry, who will be discussing and reading from his brand new collection, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall. Tom will be in conversation with fellow Bristol poet and academic, Lucy English.
With his customary witty and powerful verse, Tom’s latest collection looks at how it feels to normalise an apocalypse. It is not a call to arms, it is a poet’s book about the weight we all carry – uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic, and a welcome aid in steering through these tumultuous times.
"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" - Carol Ann Duffy
“Startling, sardonic, and absolutely necessary, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall navigates the territory between climate collapse and daily life with unflinching honesty and tenderness.” Kaycee Hill
“Tom Sastry turns his great gifts - wit, originality, formal innovation - to the big subjects of our time… This may be the most important - and certainly the most entertaining - book about subjects like the end of the world I've yet found.” Jonathan Edwards
“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird
“incisive, witty, surreal, truthful” – Amy Acre
Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. He has published two previous collections, both with Nine Arches, and one pamphlet. These have been, variously, Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.
Lucy English is Professor of Creative Enterprise and the Spoken Word at Bath Spa University. She is also co-director of the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. She has two collections published by Burning Eye books and her most recent project was an immersive poetry film hologram, Cancer Alley, which was screened at the Watershed in 2024. She is currently working on more poetry film collaborations.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
To be added to the waiting list please email [email protected]
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Gloucester Road Books hosts the award-winning, much-loved Bristol poet, Tom Sastry, who will be discussing and reading from his brand new collection, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall. Tom will be in conversation with fellow Bristol poet and academic, Lucy English.
With his customary witty and powerful verse, Tom’s latest collection looks at how it feels to normalise an apocalypse. It is not a call to arms, it is a poet’s book about the weight we all carry – uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic, and a welcome aid in steering through these tumultuous times.
"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" - Carol Ann Duffy
“Startling, sardonic, and absolutely necessary, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall navigates the territory between climate collapse and daily life with unflinching honesty and tenderness.” Kaycee Hill
“Tom Sastry turns his great gifts - wit, originality, formal innovation - to the big subjects of our time… This may be the most important - and certainly the most entertaining - book about subjects like the end of the world I've yet found.” Jonathan Edwards
“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird
“incisive, witty, surreal, truthful” – Amy Acre
Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. He has published two previous collections, both with Nine Arches, and one pamphlet. These have been, variously, Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.
Lucy English is Professor of Creative Enterprise and the Spoken Word at Bath Spa University. She is also co-director of the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. She has two collections published by Burning Eye books and her most recent project was an immersive poetry film hologram, Cancer Alley, which was screened at the Watershed in 2024. She is currently working on more poetry film collaborations.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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