Peter Barlow's Cigarette #46

Name: Peter Barlow's Cigarette #46
Start: 2024-11-09T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-09T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Carlton Club

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Carlton Club | Manchester, EN

Peter Barlow's Cigarette #46 ~ ft. Maria Sledmere, Harriet Tarlo & Lucy Wilkinson

An afternoon of alternative poetries
4.00 - 6.00pm, The Carlton Club, Carlton Road, Whalley Range
Free entry, but booking strongly advised
~~ || FOR COVID SAFETY MEASURES, & ACCESSIBILITY INFO, PLEASE READ BELOW || ~~
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MARIA SLEDMERE ~
's most recent book, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (NoUP, 2024) was described by Claire Colebrook as 'a lyrical, intense and lamentful dream for an increasingly fragile future'. She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, director of SPAM Press and one half of the portable dream lab, Project Somnolence. Other books include Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024), An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023) and Cocoa and Nothing - with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023).

HARRIET TARLO ~
’s books include Gathering Grounds (Shearsman, 2019) and Field (Shearsman, 2016) as well as four artists books with Judith Tucker (Wild Pansy Press). Harriet was the editor of the influential anthology of radical landscape poetry The Ground Aslant (Shearsman, 2011). This reading is partly in honour of her new collection, Cut Flowers II, recently published by Guillemot Press.

LUCY WILKINSON ~
is a writer, bookbinder and specialist dyslexia English teacher. She runs a small publishing press in Manchester, death of workers whilst building skyscrapers. She has just completed her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her publications include, blues not worth bad skin (2018), Civil War: So Far-It-Happened (2020), The Sandstainers (Earth Bound Poetry Series) and her forthcoming publication, The Alluscape (2025), as well as some broadsides, Past Echoes Squark (2020), Stuck Shadows In The Shapes That We Create (2021), and The Sandstainers (2023). Her work is also featured in journals such as Periodicals (2022), Resonance Anthology (2022), and Fragile (Earth Bound Press).

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COVID SAFETY
Since the risks of the Covid-19 virus are still present, we would like to take what measures we can to make this event as safe as possible. We will be limiting the capacity in the venue, so please book in advance to make sure you can get in. We would ask that you consider taking a lateral flow test before you come to the event, and obviously don't come if it is positive. Similarly, if you have any potential Covid symptoms, or think you've come into contact with someone who might have it, please stay away.

Accessibility info:
There are a small number of steps up to enter the venue; unfortunately they do not currently have ramp access, though they are working to sort it for the future. Once inside, the venue is all level and has accessible toilets. The event will be seated, and some chairs can be moved to accommodate any particular requirements. Children are welcome at our events (though we can't guarantee all poetry will be child-friendly in content). If you have any questions, or any accessibility requirements not covered here which you would like to discuss with us, please do get in touch, and we'll do everything in our power to accommodate you.