An afternoon of world class poetry, memoir and cake with John McAuliffe and Jason Allen-Paisant in the Wainsgate Chapel, Yorkshire on Sunday 27 July at 3.30pm.
Tickets: £12.00
John McAuliffe’s seven acclaimed books of poetry from Ireland’s Gallery Press include The Kabul Olympics (2020), which was a TLS and Irish Times Book of the Year, Selected Poems, published in the UK and Ireland in 2022 and in the US by Wake Forest Press in 2023, and last October a new collection National Theatre. John grew up in Listowel, County Kerry. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester, Associate Publisher at Carcanet Press and co-editor of PN Review.
Jason Allen-Paisant’s extraordinary Self Portrait as Othello won both of the UK’s most prestigious poetry awards in 2023 – The Forward and TS Eliot Prizes.
He will also be reading from his new memoir The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams. He is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and an associate editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. He lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.
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