Sunday Service: Poetry with Poets from Salt Publishing
From ballads to blank verse and sonnets to slam battles, this event will explore how to take poetry from the page and bring it to life through performance and discussion.
Featuring performances from Salt poets including Peter Daniels, Kirsten Irving and Tony Williams.
Peter Daniels has now had his third collection, My Tin Watermelon, published by Salt. His translations of Vladislav Khodasevich from Russian (Angel Classics, 2013) were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize and as queer writer in residence at the London Metropolitan Archives he wrote The Ballad of Captain Rigby.
Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and voice-over, and one of the two editors behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Happenstance and Salt, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She won the 2011 and 2017 Live Canon International Poetry Prizes and is currently working on Kumo, a sci-fi collaboration with artist Renee O’Drobinak on demons in post-apocalyptic Japan.
Tony Williams’ first book The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh and Portico Prizes. He lives in rural Northumberland and works in Newcastle. His novel Nutcase was published in 2017, and his most recent poetry collection is Hawthorn City (2019).
