The latest Nine Arches Press and Crystal Clear
Creators Leicester Shindig! takes place at The Western, 70
Western Road, Leicester LE3 0GA a week on Monday, 19th November, at 7.30pm.
The night's guests are Jo Bell, Dragan Todorovic, Ian Parks and David
Cooke, and as always there'll be open mic slots available on the night.
David Cooke won a Gregory Award in 1977
and published Brueghel’s Dancers in 1984. He then stopped writing for 20 years. A retrospective collection, In the Distance, was published in 2011 by
Night Publishing. A new collection, Work Horses, has just been published by
Ward Wood Publishing.
Jo Bell is a former Glastonbury Poet in
Residence, director of National Poetry Day — and now the UK's Canal Laureate. A
boatdweller and former archaeologist, her poems are about everything from Roman
forts to sex on the towpath (between ducks). Current projects include a
collaboration on a sequence with Martin Malone, charting the progress of a
passionate relationship.
Dragan Todorovic is a multimedia artist and
author of eight books of nonfiction, poetry and fiction. He’s worked
extensively in print and electronic media, in Serbia (where he was born) and in
Canada (where he lived between 1995 - 2005). Little Red Transistor Radio from
Trieste is his first collection of short stories.
Ian Parks is the only poet to have
poems published in The TLS and The Morning Star on the same day. His latest
collection is The Exile’s House (Waterloo Press) and he is currently Writing
Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Entry is free.
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