Join us on Thursday 26th November, 7-8pm online via Zoom, hosted by NCLA at Newcastle University for the Poetry Book Society Autumn / Winter Showcase with David Morley and Fred D’Aguiar in conversation with PBS Book Selector Sinéad Morrissey
David Morley, will read from FURY (Carcanet, 2020) which won the PBS Autumn Choice and Fred D’Aguiar, will read from his hugely topical Letters to America (Carcanet, 2020) which is the PBS Winter choice.
David Morley trained as an ecologist. He won the Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems. His books from Carcanet include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment and The Invisible Kings. David wrote the bestselling The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and teaches at Warwick University. He pioneered podcasting in creative writing through his Slow Poetry and Writing Challenges spoken word projects. His book Phoenix New Writing was an anthology of Coventry poetry and won the Raymond Williams Prize. His latest book FURY was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the Forward prize for Best Collection. David is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Fred D’Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He grew up in Guyana, returning to England in his teens. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading English with African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Newcastle and Durham Universities, and Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University. Letters to America is his eighth book of poetry. He is also the author of four novels, the first of which, The Longest Memory (Pantheon, 1994), won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. His plays include High Life (1987) and A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death (1991), which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Mr Reasonable was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. He is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.
All events are completely FREE to attend. Please register here for details. PBS Members can order copies of their books here with 25% off.
David Morley trained as an ecologist. He won the Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems. His books from Carcanet include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment and The Invisible Kings. David wrote the bestselling The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and teaches at Warwick University. He pioneered podcasting in creative writing through his Slow Poetry and Writing Challenges spoken word projects. His book Phoenix New Writing was an anthology of Coventry poetry and won the Raymond Williams Prize. His latest book FURY was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the Forward prize for Best Collection. David is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Fred D’Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He grew up in Guyana, returning to England in his teens. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading English with African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Newcastle and Durham Universities, and Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University. Letters to America is his eighth book of poetry. He is also the author of four novels, the first of which, The Longest Memory (Pantheon, 1994), won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. His plays include High Life (1987) and A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death (1991), which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Mr Reasonable was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. He is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.
All events are completely FREE to attend. Please register here for details. PBS Members can order copies of their books here with 25% off.