We're delighted to be providing the book stall for the Lit & Phil's upcoming event with our PBS Summer Recommendation Linda Anderson and John Challis (whose books will be supplied by Bloodaxe).
📆 Wednesday 17 June, 7.30-9pm
📍 The Lit & Phil, Newcastle
🎟 Free / 'Pay what you wish'
Acclaimed poets Linda Anderson and John Challis will launch their new collections, Against Falling (Pavilion) and The Green Parcel (Bloodaxe Books).
Linda Anderson’s first collection, The Station Before, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney first collection prize. Poems in her new collection, Against Falling, our PBS Summer Recommendation, are bound together by the idea of the ‘unfinished’. Some undermine the dominance of the ending in stories, emphasizing instead the hinterland of before that exists in silence or hesitation. Others question the ‘pastness’ of the past as memories come back not only to haunt but to reveal something new or unrecognized.
The rural terrain of John Challis’s second collection provides a new lens for exploring history, class and work, our relationship to the natural world, and cycles of growth and decay. Much of his debut, The Resurrectionists, concerned working lives in the city. Here, we find ourselves beyond, in backyards, on motorways, in fields, searching for a green patch where an East End family picked hops in the summer. These poems acknowledge and reckon with the people and places that haunt us, while reflecting on fatherhood and freedom.
Tickets are free, donations encouraged. Reserve your spot through the Lit & Phil's website here.