Eyewear
Christmas Poetry Launch Party: Elspeth Smith and Simon Jarvis plus special guest
Caleb Klaces
Eyewear
is celebrating its first year as an indie poetry publisher on the 5th
December with warmth, cheer and merriment at the Oxfam bookshop, Marylebone. For
a Christmas treat, Eyewear are launching two brilliant new collections for its
fourth and fifth titles.
Dangerous
Cakes
is Elspeth Smith’s remarkable debut; a quirky, dark and kitsch collection of
poems. Smith’s sly poems limit themselves with obsessive tropes – shoes, wine
glasses, balloons, tea, cake, dancing – and then open them up, somehow, into
vast, mysterious places, with a question or apercu. She is a fascinating woman,
born in Ceylon in 1928 to British parents, spending her childhood on a tea
plantation.
Eighteen
Poems
is by one of the UK's most respected avant-garde poet-critics, Simon Jarvis. His
writing intriguingly reaches out to the Wordsworthian tradition, being a mixture
of the lyrical, romantic and post-modern. Jarvis is the Gorley Putt Professor of
Poetry and Poetics at Cambridge.
You
will have the opportunity to hear both poets read from their work, as well as
our special guest Caleb Klaces, who won the Melita Hume Poetry Prize this year
with his strong and original collection Bottled Air. This is being
published by Eyewear in spring 2013.
Please
rock up at no charge to the Oxfam bookshop, 91 Marylebone High street, 7-9pm,
for a glass of white or red, some ground-breaking poetry and most importantly,
some Christmas joy.
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.
Contact:
info@eyewearpublishing.com
Twitter:
@EyewearPoetry
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