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FREE
KEELE HALL READINGS
TONY WILLIAMS
Monday 26 February 2018 | 7:30pm
UNIVERSITY COMMON ROOM, KEELE HALL
Tony was born and brought up in Derbyshire, and
studied philosophy at Cambridge and creative writing
at Sheffield Hallam University. He writes poetry and
prose fiction. His first collection of poems, The Corner
of Arundel Lane and Charles Street (Salt, 2009), was
shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize,
the Portico Prize for Literature and the Michael Murphy
Memorial Prize. The sonnet sequence All the Rooms of
Uncle’s Head (Nine Arches Press, 2011) was the Poetry
Book Society’s Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2011. His
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flash fiction collection All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten
(Salt, 2012) won Best Short Story Collection in the
2013 Saboteur Awards. Tony’s latest novel, Nutcase,
was published by Salt in 2017. He previously taught at
Sheffield Hallam University, the Open University and the
University of Salford among others, and worked as a
freelance graphic designer for some years.
KEELE HALL READINGS
FREE
TO BE
ANNOUNCED
SHORTLY
Monday 12 March 2018 | 7:30pm
UNIVERSITY COMMON ROOM, KEELE HALL
Join us for another evening of live reading with
Keele Writing. Our reader for this evening will be
confirmed shortly so please visit our webpages
for more information. Keele Writing events take place
in the lavish University Common Room in Keele Hall
and feature a range of readings from poets and
novelists of international standing.
KEELE HALL READINGS
FREE
JACQUI ROWE
Monday 16 April 2018 | 7:30pm
UNIVERSITY COMMON ROOM, KEELE HALL
Jacqui Rowe has had four poetry pamphlets published and her poems have appeared
widely in magazines, such as Tears in the Fence, Bare Fiction. The Interpreter’s House,
and Poetry Review. She has also read her own poems on Radio 4’s Poetry Please.
hosted by Roger McGough. Her first full collection, Blink, is published by V Press.
For over ten years she has hosted Poetry Bites, a popular bi-monthly event in
Birmingham combining guest poets and readers from the floor. Co-founder and
co-editor of the award-winning independent press, Flarestack Poets www.
flarestac kpoets.co.uk she is a sought after mentor for other poets and a tutor
for the Poetry School. She has worked extensively as a writer in health and social
care settings, including making poetry with people living with dementia.
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