* Carrie Etter & Alan Baker Wednesday, 22nd January 2025, 7pm Venue: Five Leaves Bookshop Nottingham Buy tickets here £4.50 admission (£3 for students) (free to NPS members) American expatriate Carrie Etter has published four collections of poetry, including The Tethers (Seren) winner of the London New Poetry Prize, and Imagined Sons (Seren), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. She also edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman), a TLS Book of the Year. Individual poems have appeared in The Guardian, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem , Poetry Review, and The Times Literary Supplement. She also writes short stories, essays, and reviews, and has received grants from Arts Council England and The Society of Authors. Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has lived in Nottingham since 1985. He runs the poetry publisher Leafe Press and its associated magazine, Litter. His ...
Four Nottingham-based poets will each read with a specially invited guest of their own choosing. The series is funded by the Nottingham Poetry Society. Forthcoming later in the year, Andrew Taylor reads with Cliff Yates, Andrew Duncan with Rod Mengham, and Martin Stannard with Rona Cran. The events will feature readings, conversation, and Q&As, and the series kicks off with Alan Baker and his guest, Carrie Etter.