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HOWL FOR NATIONAL POETRY DAY

AUTUMN LAUNCH PARTY WITH WINE, POETRY READINGS AND SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY EYEWEAR! 8TH OCTOBER

Eyewear Publishing
60th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: LIVE READING OF HOWL BY EYEWEAR TEAM AND EYEWEAR POETS
 
 Oct 8th. 2015
LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP, BLOOMSBURY , 19:00-22:00
An amendment to our last letter: Please arrive at 7pm and RSVP to info@eyewearpublishing.com

Remember, tomorrow evening we are celebrating National Poetry Day and the 60th Anniversary of the first live reading of Howl. The Eyewear team will be doing a special rendition for your pleasure, followed by readings from an exceptional selection of new Eyewear Poets.

Readers:

 Keaton Henson will be reading from his debut, Idiot Verse 
Jacquelyn Pope will be reading from her translations of Hester Knibbe (recently featured in The New Yorker!)
Hester Knibbe will also be reading from her book Hungerpots
Mel Pryor will be reading from her debut collection  Small Nuclear Family
 Eliza Stefani will be reading from her debut collection Sleeping With Plato
Keith Jarrett will be reading from his pamphlet I Speak Home
Don Share will read from Amy Newman's acclaimed feminist update of Howl

 
You may also be interested in the new BAREKNUCKLE POET anthology, a gorgeous selection from the journal's entries in the last 12 months, with a special section dedicated to the 60th anniversary of HOWL's first live reading.

  
About Eyewear:
Eyewear Publishing Ltd. is based in London, England. It was founded in the Diamond Jubilee/Olympic year of 2012. Emphasis is on excellent new work, as well as the rediscovery of out-of-print figures.

 
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