July - Rise Up!
Schedule
Wed Jul 31 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
201 Acomb Road, York | York, EN
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July Rise Up! A monthly celebration of poetry and the spoken word.Join us on Wednesday 31 July to welcome poets Kim Moore, Deborah Finding and Laura Strickland!
Kim Moore’s first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
Kim is supported by two exciting voices:
Deborah Finding is a queer feminist writer with a background in academia and activism. Her debut poetry pamphlet, vigils for dead and dying girls, is published by Nine Pens and her second, amortisation, is forthcoming with Live Canon. She has been widely anthologised and is published in Propel, fourteen poems, Berlin lit, and The Alchemy Spoon. She has also written features and interviews for the Guardian, the Huffington Post and DIVA magazine. Originally from the North-East, Deborah lives in London, where she is poet in residence at the Soho Poly Theatre.
Laura Strickland is a carer, poet and MA student at Manchester Metropolitan
University. Her work has appeared in The North, Northern Gravy, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Dreamcatcher, Strix, The Frogmore Papers and High Window. Laura was shortlisted in the Leeds Poetry Festival and Black Cat Poetry Press competitions. She is one of 20 poets included in Poetry Archive's Worldview 2023 and is working on her first pamphlet.
Doors at 7.30pm - show starts at 8.30pm and finishes at 10pm. Parking available nearby. The venue is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet.
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