‘Newcastle’s
most entertaining literary night out’, Trashed Organ, returns Thursday 26th
July. This edition’s line up includes Sarah Corbett and Helen Mort, reading in
support of Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press, 2012) plus
readings from local poets: Simon Moore, Kris Anderson and David Spittle. Music
from Meghann Clancy and Fiona's Jazz Express.
And, of
course, one lucky person will be crowned TRASHED LAUREATE winning a bottle of
port for a fine line of lyrical bliss!
Sarah
Corbett
Grew up in
North Wales and lives in Yorkshire. Her collections are The Red Wardrobe, 1998,
shortlisted for a Forward First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Witch
Bag, 2002 and Other Beats, 2008 (all published by Seren).
Helen Mort
Born in
Sheffield in 1985. Her collection Division Street is forthcoming from Chatto
& Windus. She has published two pamphlets with tall-lighthouse press, 'the
shape of every box' and 'a pint for the ghost', a Poetry Book Society Choice
for Spring 2010. Five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, she received
an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007 and won the
Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she was poet in residence at
The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere.
Kris
Anderson
Born and
raised in Seattle, Washington, but has called the North East of England ‘home’
for the past 5 years. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing
at Newcastle University and working on a collection of poems which explore her
physical and spiritual connection to the landscape of the American West.
Publications include work in The Ravenglass Poetry Press Anthology Volume 1,
The Strand Book of International Poets and Pushing Out the Boat Issue 11.
Simon Moore
Simon Moore
writes Sonnet Reviews, the world's leading 14-line rhyming review portal.
sonnetreviews.tumblr.com He also researches Restoration prose and poetry at
Newcastle University.
David
Spittle
Is
currently researching John Ashbery and surrealism for a PhD at Newcastle
University. He has always had an interest in writing which found an outlet at
Cardiff in the form of the Libretto. Studying for his undergrad at Cardiff
University, he met a composer (from the RWCMD) and has since written two operas
and worked on a project for the Music Theatre Wales. Although he has hugely
enjoyed the challenge of the libretto and the thrill of hearing and watching
his words performed, it has always been poetry that has inspired his love of
writing. David has recently had one poem published in the December issue of The
Delinquent; before that he was aso published online for Haggard and Haloo.
Meghann
Clancy
An acoustic
singer-songwriter originally from North Yorkshire. Her music combines catchy
melodies and a pure, haunting vocal that can touch the soul, with songs drawn
from stories of life experiences. While predominantly a solo performer, Meghann
has most recently been working with a group of musicians to create her first
album, ‘Take Flight’, with plans to release at the end of the summer. To hear
more, visit www.soundcloud.com/meghannclancy
The
Cumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Doors open
at 7.30pm. Performance 8pm.
Trashed
Organ is a Newcastle based literature, theatre and music company directed by
writer John Challis and theatre director Melanie Rashbrooke.
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