Poetry Launch - A SUITCASEFUL OF DOG - Poems by Sue Vickerman
Schedule
Fri, 29 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
55 Otley Street, BD23 1ET Skipton, United Kingdom | Skipton, EN
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You are warmly invited to the celebratory launch of Sue Vickerman's sixth poetry collection - an event featuring laughter, tears, signed copies of Sue's book, and cake!Admission free.
Shifting between comedy and drama, Sue Vickerman’s poems traverse loss, memory, and the strange rituals of everyday survival.
Sue Vickerman’s A suitcaseful of dog is a sharp, darkly funny, and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures life’s absurdities and devastations with equal intensity. Moving between acerbic social observation and moments of piercing emotional depth, Vickerman’s poems traverse loss, memory, and the strange rituals of everyday survival. Whether recounting a disastrous dog-sitting, navigating the indignities of ageing, or unpicking the quiet violences of family and relationships, her language is crisp, unsparing, and rich with wit. A suitcaseful of dog is poetry that doesn’t look away—bold, pragmatic, and bristling with intelligence.
"Whether recounting a disastrous dog-sitting, navigating the indignities of ageing, or unpicking the quiet violences of family and relationships, Sue Vickerman’s language is crisp, unsparing, and rich with wit."
Sue Vickerman is a committed Yorkshirewoman, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, editor, life model, event curator and (very) occasional stand-up comedian. Five Arts Council awards over three decades have facilitated her publication of four works of fiction, two translations from German of literary works, and five volumes of poetry. A suitcaseful of dog is her sixth collection.
suevickerman.uk
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55 Otley Street, BD23 1ET Skipton, United Kingdom, 55 Otley Street, Skipton, BD23 1, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
