January Rise Up! PLUS a Caroline Bird workshop!

Name: January Rise Up! PLUS a Caroline Bird workshop!
Start: 2025-01-29T19:30:00+00:00
Location: 201 Acomb Road, York

Schedule

Wed, 29 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

201 Acomb Road, York | York, EN

January Rise Up! 📃
Join us as we welcome three brilliant poets (Caroline Bird, Oliver Carmichael & Minal Sukumar) to our bakery stage. An exciting evening of poetry = a very Happy New Year!
There are also limited tickets available for a one-off two-hour poetry workshop earlier on the same day at Friargate Theatre, run by Caroline Bird. Tickets guarantee entry to the evening performances.
Hope to see you there! 🛼
Weds 29th Jan, doors 7.30pm - £5-£30
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022) and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade. She won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the TS Eliot Prize, the Costa Book Awards, the Ted Hughes Award, the Polari Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. A two-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was fifteen. She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2023. Her seventh collection, Ambush at Still Lake, was published in June. Oliver Carmichael is from County Durham. He studied English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University. In 2024 he was shortlisted for the Aurora Prize and won the Winchester Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of the Michael Donaghy Award which supports a poet to attend the first Arvon Advanced Writing Programme. Minal Sukumar is a fiction writer and poet from Bangalore, India. Her work has been featured in The Bombay Review, Gulmohur Quarterly and the Hyderabad Literary Festival's publication, Khabar. She co-founded the spoken word collective, Mouth of Word and has performed original poetry in India, Ireland and the UK. Currently, Minal is a PhD researcher and Wolfson Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York.
Ticket link via www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise