The Gloucestershire Poetry Society presents our regular online event in 2022, 'Crafty Crows', hosted by Josephine Lay.

Wednesday 1st June 2022, from 7.00pm until 9.00pm, Featuring Tom Sastry & Angela France, plus open-mic.
Via Zoom (Technical stuff by Jason Conway)
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To enter the event, just scan the event link, on your ticket, or paste into your browser...
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To reserve an open-mic slot for this event, please email, craftycrows2020@yahoo.com after the 4th May 2022. Open-mic slots will be 3 minutes max. (please stick to this, as we don't want to have to cut people off). Please be aware that Crafty Crows is recorded, and subsequently posted via youtube...
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Hera Lindsay Bird calls Tom Sastry a magician of deadpan. A funny and engaging performer, he will be showcasing his brand-new collection You have no normal country to return to - a darkly comic exploration of national identity and the power of modern myths. It follows A Man's House Catches Fire (2019) which was highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. His pamphlet Complicity (2016) was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice.

"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" - Carol Ann Duffy

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Angela France has had poems published in many leading journals and has been anthologised a number of times.

Her publications include
Occupation (Ragged Raven Press, 2009),
Lessons in Mallemaroking (Nine Arches Press, 2011), Hide (Nine Arches Press 2013)
and The Hill (Nine Arches Press 2017).

The Hill was developed into a live multi-media poetry show which Angela toured, funded by Arts Council England.

Her latest collection, Terminarchy, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2021 and Launched at Ledbury Poetry Festival.

She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing and a PhD from the University of Gloucestershire. Angela teaches creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings.

www.angelafrance.co.uk
https://ninearchespress.com/.../poetry.../terminarchy.html
http://ninearchespress.com/.../poetry.../the%20hill.html