Lines of Dissent is the title of our Poetry and Jazz event in the HEART Café on Friday 25 May at 7.30pm £5 on the door
Poet Ian Parks will be joined by the two Simons from Des the Miner, which is the resident group at the Flux Gallery, and by his guest Kim Moore.
Ian Parks was
one of the National Poetry Society New Poets in 1996. He was made a Hawthornden
Fellow in 1991 and has taught creative writing at the universities of
Sheffield, Hull, Oxford and Leeds.
Described by Points North magazine as 'an heroic figure in
Yorkshire poetry and a living legend in Hull', Ian Parks is the only poet to
have poems in the Times Literary Supplement and The Morning Star on the same
day. His collections include Shell Island, Love Poems and The Landing Stage.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Independent on
Sunday, The Observer and Modern Poetry in Translation. He is currently editing
a new anthology of contemporary Yorkshire poetry for Five Leaves Publications
and was special guest on the Janice Long Show (BBC Radio 2) earlier this year.
The Exile’s House is published by Waterloo Press and he will be
venturing out of Mexborough in November to live and work as
writer-in-residence at Gladstone's Library. He's asked them to subscribe to The
South Yorkshire Times during his stay.
He has researched Chartist Poetry: his book on this will appear next year.
“A poet working big themes and moving in new directions.” Ed Reiss
“This is a poetry which is universal, profound and as natural as breathing.” David Cooke
A Last Love Poem - Ian Parks: Download
Jazz Train - Ian Parks: Download
Over The Top - Ian Parks: Download
Lazarus - Ian Parks: Download
Kim
Moore works in Cumbria as a peripatetic brass teacher, which involves
travelling to different schools to teach brass instruments and drinking cups of
tea. She lives with her husband, two
dogs and a cat.
Kim
has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan
University. She has been published in
various magazines including Poetry Review, The TLS, Ambit, The Rialto, The
North and Magma and has recently had reviews published in Mslexia and Poetry
Review. In 2011 she won the Geoffrey
Dearmer Prize and an Eric Gregory Award.
She regularly reads for the ‘Carol Ann Duffy and Friends’ series at the
Royal Exchange in Manchester and is Reviews Editor for the Cadaverine
magazine. She is currently working on
her first full collection.
Chartists rally on Kennington Common in London -
Charismatic performance poet Michelle Scally Clarke is well-known in Headingley: for the past five years she has been the creative genius behind the amazing poetry slams held at Lawnswood and city of Leeds schools as part of the Headingley LitFest. Her own poetry lays bare her turbulent journey from care, to adoption, to motherhood, to performer – and she encouraged the teenagers who attended her preliminary workshops to dig deep and find their own sense of identity. She worked with the students for six weeks before each slam, nurturing their talents and offering them her own inimitable style of encouragement.
