BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2147@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170330T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170330T203000 DTSTAMP:20170321T114655Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-ljmu-writers-workshop-p resent-stratigraphies-poetry-reading/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: LJMU writer's workshop present: STRATIGRAPHIES poetry reading DESCRIPTION:LJMU writer's workshop present: STRATIGRAPHIES poetry reading\n Peter Riley\, Sarah Hymas and Mark Pajak\, a trio of acclaimed poets at different stages of their careers have been invited to read new work\, re flecting the conversations between practices and decades of the current ex hibition Public View. The poets were selected by LJMU Creative writing l ecturers and fellow poets Helen Tookey and Andrew McMillan.\n"Stratigra phies because we were thinking about layers\; about generational shifts an d inheritance."- Andrew McMillan.\nThis event brings together three poets from the North of England who each\, in their own ways\, are answering bac k or are 'in conversation with' something that has been there before them\ ; other poets\, the landscape and cityscapes of the region. To coincide wi th Public View\, the aim was to bring poets together who address a sense of place\, be it historical\, oceanic\, geographical\, urban\, and whose w ork often sets the human against something much bigger\, and timeless\, an d ever changing.\n\n\nMark Pajak\nMark Pajak was born in Merseyside. His w ork has been published in Magma\, The North and The Rialto (among others)\ , been highly commended in the Cheltenham Poetry Competition and National Poetry Competition and won first place in the 2016 Bridport Prize. He has received a Northern Writer’s Award from New Writing North and was 2016 ’s Apprentice Poet in Residence at Ilkley Literature Festival. His first pamphlet\, Spitting Distance\, was selected as a Laureate’s Choice and is published with smith|doorstop.\n\nPeter Riley\nPeter Riley was born int o an environment of working people in the Manchester area in 1940 and now lives in retirement in Hebden Bridge\, West Yorkshire\, having previously lived in Cambridge for many years. He is the author of some fifteen books of poetry\, and two of prose concerning travel and music. His most recent books are The Glacial Stairway (Carcanet 2011) and Due North (Shearsman 20 15)\, which is a book-length poem. A booklet of short local poems\, Pennin e Tales\, was published by Calder Valley Poetry\, 2016. Due North was shor tlisted for the Forward Best Collection Prize 2015 and the Roehampton Poet ry Prize 2016. He contributes reviews of new poetry to the website The For tnightly Review regularly.\n\n\nSarah Hymas\nSarah Hymas lives by Morecamb e Bay\, England. Her writing appears in print\, multimedia exhibits\, as l yrics\, installations and on stage. She also makes artistbooks and immersi ve walks. Her work is a continuing response to the relationship between hu mans and the sea.\n\n\n£4/£3 BOOK HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/03/LJMU_Writers_Workshop_-_Hymas.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR