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KEELE HALL READINGS KEELE HALL READINGS VALENTINE’S OPEN MIC PUNCTUATE YOUR LIFE! WITH PHILIP COWELL Monday 12 February 2018 | 7:30pm UNIVERSITY COMMON ROOM, KEELE HALL Monday 29 January 2018 | 7:30pm UNIVERSITY COMMON ROOM, KEELE HALL Jo in us for an evening with Keele’s youngest writing talent, as our students step up to the mic and share their latest work. On the night audience members are encouraged to participate in Blind Date with a Book - so bring a book, wrapped in paper so its contents is a mystery with a description of the book in four words for someone else to take home on a blind date at the end of the evening. Reading from his new book, This Is Me, Full Stop (Penguin), Philip will reflect on the role the little dots, strokes and squiggles called punctuation marks play in our lives, inviting the audience to consider their own punctuation practice and invent new “missing marks”. Philip Cowell is the author of This Is Me, Full Stop (Penguin) and Keeping A Journal (Sheldon Press). His writing has appeared in The Guardian, BBC Culture, Poetry Review and The Philosophy Shop. He has run workshops at the Southbank Centre, Wilderness, and Normal? Festival of the Brain, and is an associate of the literature and dementia charity, Living Words. Keele Writing events take place in the lavish University Common Room in Keele Hall and feature readings from poets and novelists of international standing. The events are free of charge and open to all. They’re a must for all passionate readers and lovers of literature. We hope to see you there. If you’re a Keele Creative Writing student and would like to give a reading, please contact [email protected]. FREE 32 BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK FREE 33