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Carrie Etter & Alan Baker
Wednesday, 22nd January 2025, 7pm
Venue: Five Leaves Bookshop Nottingham
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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 recent collections include Riverrun, a book of modernist sonnets about the River Trent in its Nottinghamshire stretch, Tyneside dialect poetry and A Book of Odes dealing with migration and the social history of the north and midlands.
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Rod Mengham & Andrew Duncan
Wednesday, 30th April 2025, 7pm
Wednesday, 30th April 2025, 7pm
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Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He edited the magazine Equofinality from 1981-1994, and began the pamphlet series Equipage, which now lists up to 120 titles. He has published poetry with Salt and Carcanet. Between 1992 and 2002 he was co-organiser of the annual Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry. He has also edited essay collections on contemporary fiction, avant-garde art, fiction of the 1940s, and Australian poetry. He was a recipient of the Cholmondely Award for Poetry in 2020.
Andrew Duncan has lived in Nottingham since 2005, and has been publishing poetry since the late ’70s. Books include Threads of Iron, Skeleton Looking at Chinese Pictures, Anxiety Before Entering a Room, The Imaginary in Geometry, Savage Survivals, and a selected poems, On the Margins of Great Empires (Shearsman, 2017). From the same publisher are Zerodrifter (translations from the poetry of Thomas Kling, 2018), and a collection of new poems, With Feathers on Glass (2023).
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Cliff Yates & Andrew Taylor
Wednesday, 8th October 2025, 7pm
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Andrew Taylor’s fourth collection of poetry, European Hymns was published by Shearsman Books in 2024. Previous titles include Northangerland: Re-versioning the Poetry of Branwell Brontë and Lowdeine Chronicles, a collaboration with Nick Power. He is the author of Adrian Henri: A Critical Reading (Greenwich Exchange, 2019) and There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Seren Books, 2025). He edited the two volumes of Finch’s Collected Poems for Seren in 2022. He lives in Nottingham where he is senior lecturer in creative writing at Nottingham Trent University.
https://www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com/
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Rona Cran & Martin Stannard
Wednesday, 12th November 2025, 7pm
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Rona Cran is a London-based writer and scholar. Their first poetry collection, I Remember Kim, was published with Verve Poetry Press in 2023. They are the author of Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture (2014) and the editor of Conversations with New York School Poets (2025). Forthcoming books include Multiple Voices: New York City Poetry from the Mimeograph Revolution to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Shadows and Benedictions: a personal history of sharks. They are Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature at the University of Birmingham, and the founding co-director of the Network for New York School Studies.
Martin Stannard edited the magazine joe soap’s canoe, which in the 80s and 90s published and championed New York School poets including Ashbery, Koch, Paul Violi, Charles North and Tony Towle. His own poetry and reviews have been published widely since the late 1970s, and his associations with New York poets remain to the present day. Details of his books etc. can be found at www.martinstannard.com. After teaching in China for 12 years, he now lives in quiet retirement in Nottingham with his cat, Xiao Mei.