TOWN FESTIVAL: This Is How I Fight poetry evening

Join three local poets – Rosie Garland, Suzannah Evans, and Amanda Dalton – for a poetry evening to celebrate Rosie’s latest collection, This Is How I Fight.

How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? In her new collection This Is How I Fight, Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

Rosie Garland writes poetry, long and short fiction, and sings with post-punk band The March Violets. Her most recent novel The Fates (Quercus) is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Fates, and her short fiction is collected in Your Sons & Your Daughters Are Beyond (Fly On The Wall Press). In 2023, she was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Val McDermid has named her one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK today. Her new poetry collection This is How I Fight (Nine Arches Press) is out now.

Suzannah Evans’ work combines eco-poetry with dark humour and irreverence, and has been described as 'doom-pop poetry with an apocalyptic edge.' She has published two books with Nine Arches Press, the most recent of which is Space Baby. Her pamphlet Green, published by Bad Betty Press, explores climate anxiety through the folkloric figure of the Green Man and his disgruntlement with humankind. 

Amanda Dalton is a poet, playwright and essayist. Her poetry collections How To Disappear, Stray and Fantastic Voyage (May 2024) are published by Bloodaxe Books. For theatre and BBC Radio 4 and 3 she writes original drama, essays and adaptations. Amanda lives in Hebden Bridge.

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