Satellite of Love: Tom Sastry at The John Sebastian Lightship
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A event on Wednesday 22nd March. 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.

All languages welcome.

Tickets will be available on the door. Cash and card accepted.

Open mic reserve list places can be requested by emailing [email protected]

We will have 10 'on the door' open mic slots available.

Doors & Bar open - 7pm
Night starts - 7:30pm
Night ends - 10pm

The John Sebastian Lightship, Cabot Cruising Club, Bathurst Basin, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6SG

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Tom Sastry is a ray of sunshine. He once co-edited a book of poems about the future which turned into a collection of poems about the apocalypse because no-one could believe he would want to read anything remotely cheerful. He is currently working on a new collection called Life expectancy begins to fall.

Like his actually-existing books it will be political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. His pamphlet Complicity (2016) was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. His first collection A Man's House Catches Fire (2019) was highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. And You have no normal country to return to (2022) is also quite good (citation needed).

“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird

"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" - Carol Ann Duffy

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