A event on Tuesday 1st November. The event starts at 19:00.
Satellite of Love Poetry and Spoken Word run monthly events, workshops and writing retreats. Our monthly events at the John Sebastian Lightship offer a platform for local and touring poets, open mic and a community poem.
Doors & Bar open - 7pm
Night starts - 7:30pm
Night ends - 10pm
The John Sebastian Lightship, Cabot Crusing Club, Bathurst Basin, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6SG
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Hannah Linden is from a Northern working class background but she has been based in Devon, for many years. She lives in ramshackle social housing with her two (adult and adult-cusp) children. She was part of Jo Bell’s 52 group and worked as a steward for Poetry Swindon/The Big Poetry Weekend for several years. With Gram Joel Davies she won the Cheltenham Festival Compound Poetry Competition in 2015 and she was Highly Commended in the Prole Poet Laureate Prize in the same year.
Her debut pamphlet, The Beautiful Open Sky was published by V. Press in September 2022 and sold out its first print run within a week. She is working towards her first full collection.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
“The Beautiful Open Sky opens with an extraordinary run of poems, heartbreaking and precise, about the damage done by a narcissistic mother. As it progresses, the poems accumulate symbols, becoming increasingly phantasmagorical, before the patterns of a new life emerge as if through broken cloud. It works as a story, direct and emotional, but is also a meditation on how we remember – on the limits of reason and metaphor as ways of understanding the past. This is a fine model for a pamphlet: a focused set of beautiful poems, cunningly arranged, which draw power from each other. A wonderful debut.” Tom Sastry
“Truths are slippery and sometimes sinister in this stunning exploration of familial relationships by Hannah Linden. It can be hard to know who to trust, or who is parenting whom. But there is beauty here too, and a positivity that shines through despite the odds. Self-reflective and superb, Linden’s use of language is playful and imaginative. I can’t wait to see what she does next.” Julia Webb
The Beautiful Open Sky is very past and very present.
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The night will also have perfomances from four guest poets: Melanie Branton, Deborah Harvey, Tom Sastry, and Helen Sheppard.
Entry requirements:
Doors & Bar open - 7pm
Night starts - 7:30pm
Night ends - 10pm
The John Sebastian Lightship, Cabot Crusing Club, Bathurst Basin, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6SG
**********************************************
Hannah Linden is from a Northern working class background but she has been based in Devon, for many years. She lives in ramshackle social housing with her two (adult and adult-cusp) children. She was part of Jo Bell’s 52 group and worked as a steward for Poetry Swindon/The Big Poetry Weekend for several years. With Gram Joel Davies she won the Cheltenham Festival Compound Poetry Competition in 2015 and she was Highly Commended in the Prole Poet Laureate Prize in the same year.
Her debut pamphlet, The Beautiful Open Sky was published by V. Press in September 2022 and sold out its first print run within a week. She is working towards her first full collection.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
“The Beautiful Open Sky opens with an extraordinary run of poems, heartbreaking and precise, about the damage done by a narcissistic mother. As it progresses, the poems accumulate symbols, becoming increasingly phantasmagorical, before the patterns of a new life emerge as if through broken cloud. It works as a story, direct and emotional, but is also a meditation on how we remember – on the limits of reason and metaphor as ways of understanding the past. This is a fine model for a pamphlet: a focused set of beautiful poems, cunningly arranged, which draw power from each other. A wonderful debut.” Tom Sastry
“Truths are slippery and sometimes sinister in this stunning exploration of familial relationships by Hannah Linden. It can be hard to know who to trust, or who is parenting whom. But there is beauty here too, and a positivity that shines through despite the odds. Self-reflective and superb, Linden’s use of language is playful and imaginative. I can’t wait to see what she does next.” Julia Webb
The Beautiful Open Sky is very past and very present.
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The night will also have perfomances from four guest poets: Melanie Branton, Deborah Harvey, Tom Sastry, and Helen Sheppard.
Entry requirements:
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