Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Poetry from Newcastle University: Thursday May 3rd

First Thursdays at Newcastle University: Joanna Boulter and Valerie Laws
Venue: Newcastle University
Organiser: Newcastle University, School of English
Start time: 13:15
Thursday 3rd May
Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/elll

Lunchtime readings by authors either attached to or visiting the university take place on the first Thursday of every month.

Joanna Boulter is a graduate from our MA in Writing Poetry who has published three pamphlets and the collection The Hallucinogenic Effects of Breathing. She is a founder member of the Darlington women's writing co-operative Vane Women. Joanna will be reading from her latest collection 24 Preludes and Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich (Arrowhead).

Valerie Laws' latest poetry collection is Quantum Sheep (Peterloo Poets), published November 2006. She is currently writer in residence at Gordon Museum of Pathology, Guy's Hospital, London, working with a visual artist and a sculptor.

This event is free and all are welcome.

For further information email Melanie Birch or tel 0191 222 7619.
Rita Hayworth Room
2nd Floor
Percy Building
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
University of Newcastle upon Tyne (map)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

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