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SUMMARY:Together for Timbuktu
DESCRIPTION:A Family Fundraiser for Timbuktu Crisis Appeal\nTo Donate please click here Together for Timbuktu\nJoin us at The Globe at Hay for a morning of family fun as we raise money to send to our friends in Hay’s twin town of Timbuktu\, currently under siege and cut off from the world once again! \nAll writers are appearing for free with all monies raised from ticket sales and donations going directly to our Timbuktu Crisis Appeal \nALL TICKETS ARE PAY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD  but can be reserved in advance for free \n10.30am The fun begins when AF Harold brings us his wacky poetry show ‘Welcome to Wild Town‘ (age 6+) Tickets available here \n11am (ish) Nicola Davies and Petr Horacek take us on an interactive live painting & poetry adventure with The Star Whale (ages 6-100!) Tickets available here \n15min BREAK \n12 noon After a short break we join Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher in conversation with Nicola Davies as they expolore the making of their new book The Panda’s Child (all ages welcome) Tickets available here \nAll writers will be available for book signing after the event – books can be bought in advance at a reduced price for ticket holders via the links above and can be collected at the event. \n  \n 
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/together-for-timbuktu/
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Jackie Morris & friends
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SUMMARY:Mischief Makers Jackie Morris and John Mitchinson In words & Pictures
DESCRIPTION:Join Jackie in conversation with her publisher and friend\, John Mitchinson while she summons one of her magical creatures into life on stage \n \nJackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales\, with cats and dogs for company. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books\, and written some. The Lost Words\, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. In the same year she published The Unwinding with Unbound\, and they have committed to re-issuing and re-designing her backlist beginning with Song of the Golden Hare (Sep 2020) and East of the Sun\, West of the Moon (Mar 2021) and The Wild Swans (Mar 2021). \nAccordion Books are an exciting new series created by Jackie Morris and published by Unbound. \nAn Accordion Book doesn’t open\, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion\, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text – poems\, descriptions\, invocations – inspired by the same animal. \n \nTogether they work as spell to summon the animal’s spirit. Jackie has painted them using antique watercolours\, some from boxes which haven’t been opened for over 150 years\, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water. \nBeautifully produced at 152mm x 103mm\, and printed on 440 gsm card\, with foiled paper board covers foiled and a sleeve to hold the book snug\, they have been designed by Alison O’Toole\, who has worked with Jackie on all her recent books\, including The Lost Words and The Unwinding.
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/mischief-makers-jackie-morris-and-john-mitchinson-in-words-pictures/
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Jackie Morris
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SUMMARY:Christopher Meredith
DESCRIPTION:Join us in The Poetry Bookshop for a long overdue evening with our friend\, the award winning novelist\, poet and translator\, Christopher Meredith.  \nHis first novel\, Shifts\, is regarded as a modern classic. He has broadcast on radio and TV and given readings and talks all round Britain as well as in the Czech Republic\, Egypt\, Estonia\, France\, Germany\, Finland\, Ireland\, Slovenia and the USA.\n \nReading from his latest poetry collection\, Still\, published in April 2021 as well as from earlier work from Air Histories and The Meaning of Flight \nPlease join us if you can. It promises to be a great evening in the company of a monolith of Welsh literature. \nHere he is holding up Brecon Library. \n(credit: V.A. Meredith)  \nThe photo above is of a wall inscription Chris composed and co-designed for y Gaer\, the library\, museum and gallery complex which opened in Brecon in 2019. It blends original text in Welsh and English with lines from the poetry of Henry Vaughan and Dafydd ap Gwilym.
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/christopher-meredith/
LOCATION:The Poetry bookshop\, Cranbourne House\, The Pavement\, Lion Street\, Hay-on-Wye\, Powys\, HR3 5BU\, United Kindgdom
CATEGORIES:Chris Meredith,Event Tickets
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SUMMARY:Two Lights Walking through Landscapes of Loss and Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for books and wine as we celebrate the launch of James Roberts’ new book Two Lights – An extraordinary account of searching for the wilderness left in our world\, spanning continents and geological eras\, skies and oceans\, animals and birds and even the planets and stars.\n\nBy Walking at dawn and dusk\, through the two lights of awakening and regathering\, through the stripped windswept hills of Wales\, and the jungles and savannahs of Africa\, he tries to find a way from a soul-stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future.\n\nIn the resilience of wild creatures he finds a way back to life.\n\n\n“Deeply personal yet always outward looking\, James Roberts delights in the world he discovers about him. Yet he also trembles\, because he understands like winter light\, that world is diminished … and diminishing … Two Lights reveals why all of us should be writers.”.\n\nRobert Minhinnick\, poet and author of Diary of the Last Man\n\n\n“A moving meditation on loss and fragility\, tenderly tracing a love of wild creatures across landscapes of damaged yet deeply felt meaning. Startling and generous beauty\, Two Lights finds light in the wondrous presence of others and the interconnectedness of all living things.”\n\nJulian Hoffman\, author of Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/two-lights-walking-through-landscapes-of-loss-and-life/
LOCATION:The Poetry bookshop\, Cranbourne House\, The Pavement\, Lion Street\, Hay-on-Wye\, Powys\, HR3 5BU\, United Kindgdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,James Roberts
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SUMMARY:A Little Winter Magic
DESCRIPTION:Sunday 27th November 2022\, The Globe\, Hay-on-Wye \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Bookshop is delighted to be welcoming Jackie Morris\, Nicola Davies & John Mitchinson to The Globe at Hay celebrating 5 years of The Lost Words Tickets available here \nJackie will be chatting with publisher John Mitchinson about the ever evolving phenomena that is The Lost Words. Hear how it has grown and where it has led her including the beautiful and meditative new work from Unbound ‘Feather\, Leaf\, Bark and Stone’ A pillow book of poems\, dreams & stories typed on sheets of gold leaf and recently beautifully narrated on film by Michael Sheen here and available for pre-order with collection at the event here \nOriginally from Birmingham\, Jackie settled in Wales in the mid 90s and says she lives in a house ‘held together by spider’s webs’ with ‘cats that come and go’. As well as her own poetry and writing she has illustrated the work of many authors\, and as a fierce advocate for Independent bookshop Jackie released her exclusive limited edition ‘Books are my Bag’ fox bags which are available to buy here \nJackie will also be joined by her good friend and collaborator Nicola Davies\, as they read from Nicola’s new book Choose Love published this month by Graffeg. In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies’s text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave their homes and previous lives behind to face an unknown future. \n“I offer these poems\, in love and with respect\, in the hope that readers will realise that nothing but circumstance separates any of us from the experience of being a refugee. Humanity faces an uncertain future\, and there is only one choice that will get us through. We need to contemplate its deepest meaning and make it anew every day: Choose Love\, choose love\, every time.” Nicola Davies\, 2022 \nProfits from Ticket Sales for this event will be split equally between three local charities – Hay2Timbuktu\, Hay\, Talgarth & Brecon Refugees and Brecon Foodbank
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/a-little-winter-magic/
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SUMMARY:Jan Skakel
DESCRIPTION:“Pebbles on a Child’s Palm” \nA tribute in words and music to Jan Skácel \nThe Poetry Bookshop\, Friday 18th November\, 7.30pm \nThis event celebrates Skácel in his centenary year with readings in translation by local writer and translator Simon Pettifar accompanied by improvisational music from cellist Sonia Hammond and pianist Rod Paton\, who has lived in the Czech Republic and was for a while a neighbour of the poet in Brno. \nPlease note places are limited\, so please reserve your seat here \nThere is no entry charge but a contribution to the Prison Phoenix Trust is invited on the night.
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/jan-skakel/
LOCATION:The Poetry bookshop\, Cranbourne House\, The Pavement\, Lion Street\, Hay-on-Wye\, Powys\, HR3 5BU\, United Kindgdom
CATEGORIES:Event Tickets,Jan Scakel
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Brian Bilston - SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Bookshop is delighted to be welcoming bestselling poet Brian Bilston to The Globe at Hay to celebrate the release of his new book Day Like These – a brilliant new way to mark and celebrate every single day of the year.\n \nThis event is now sold out but you can still get your hands on a signed copy of the book by Pre-ordering  your own copy here \nDays Like These contains a poem for every day of the year\, each one inspired by an event associated with that day; from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the Rubik’s Cube to the first appearance of the phrase\, ‘the best thing since sliced bread’. \nPerfect for reading aloud and sharing with friends\, Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems will take the blues out of Monday\, flatten the Wednesday hump\, and amplify that Friday feeling. A brilliant way to enliven every day of the year. \nBrian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 200\,000 followers on social media\, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. His first collection of poetry\, You Took the Last Bus Home\, was published by Unbound. Diary of a Somebody (Picador) was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the McKitterick Prize. Alexa\, What Is There To Know About Love?\, his last collection\, was described by one reviewer as ‘the funniest collection of humorous verse I have seen in a long time’. Fifty Ways to Score a Goal\, a collection of poems about football for children\, was published last year.  \nBrian Bilston lives in Oxford but ssssh\, don’t tell anyone. \nDoors: 14.30\, event starts: 15.00 \nTickets are £5.00 (event only) or £20.00 (event plus a copy of the book) \nDAYS LIKE THESE will also be available to purchase at the event and Brian will be signing copies after the talk. If you would like a signed copy but cannot make the event\, please contact us on 01497 821812 or email tickets@poetrybookshop.co.uk and we can arrange this for you or order it here
URL:https://poetrybookshop.co.uk/event/54143/
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