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Forward Prize winning poet
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Online Spring Showcase
9th March | 7-8pm | Youtube | Free for Members & £5 for Non Members
Book now for our online Spring Showcase on 9th March to celebrate the launch of the Spring Bulletin.
We're so excited to share readings from our brilliant PBS Spring Choice Karen McCarthy Woolf, Recommendations Joe Carrick-Varty and Keith Jarrett, hosted by our wonderful PBS Selector Victoria Kennefick.
The event will be live streamed from 7-8pm GMT on Youtube via private link.
(Cover artwork by Fumi Yanagimoto)
PBS SPRING SHOWCASE
17 February, 18:30 - 19:30 | Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, Newcastle University
Join NCLA and the Poetry Book Society to launch the PBS Spring Selections with leading poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and Jennifer Wong.
Karen McCarthy Woolf will read from Unsafe (Bloomsbury), a fierce interrogation of colonialism and gentrification in LA and London. Jennifer Wong will launch Light Year (Nine Arches Press), a journey into the life of a migrant and mother.
Join us for a thought provoking and continent-crossing night of contemporary poetry and conversation with Sinéad Morrissey, Professor of Poetry at Newcastle University.
THE PBS PODCAST
