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:5199@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190914T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190914T200000 DTSTAMP:20190827T111441Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-coast-to-coast- to-coast-publication-launch/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Coast to Coast to Coast publica tion launch DESCRIPTION:COAST TO COAST TO COAST\n14 SEPTEMBER - 14 SEPTEMBER 2019\n\n\n \n\nRSVP\n\nALL WELCOME\n\nLaunch of Coast to Coast to Coast’s latest pu blications:\n\nCoast to Coast to Coast is a limited edition hand-stitched poetry journal first launched at Open Eye Gallery\, Liverpool in August 20 17. Each cover of the journal is unique and stitched by Maria Isakova Benn ett\, a poet and artist from Liverpool. Over the first two years Maria has created fourteen publications including a Litany featuring 48 poets in a collaborative project. She has hand-stitched over 750 covers. Coast to Coa st to Coast has travelled across the UK with events\, special launches\, a nd projects at Belfast Book Festival and Poetry in Aldeburgh.\n\nThis even t will feature readings from one of the winners of Coast to Coast to Coast ’s second Individual Poet Journal Competition\, Isabel Bermudez (with he r journal\, Madonna Moon). Excerpts will also be read from the second winn er’s work\, Painting the Stones Back by Lydia Harris. Lydia is from West ray and her work evokes notes from the island.\n\nThe extra-large Summer I ssue also contains poems from the shortlisted poets: Mara Adamitz Scrupe\, Pam Thompson\, Finola Scott\, Susannah Violette. There will be music\, re freshments\, and a limited number of the featured journals for sale.\n\nht tps://www.mariaisakova.com\n\nCoast to Coast to Coast\, Summer 2019 featur es poems from:\nJohn Glenday\nMara Adamitz Scrupe\nRichie McCaffery\nAndre w Rudd\nPam Thompson\nJane Lovell\nAoife Lyall\nEamon McGuinness\n​Finol a Scott\nSusannah Violette\nJane Robinson\nClare Crossman\n​Ian Harker\n Ilse Pedler\n​Sarah Salway\nCheryl Pearson\nPauline Rowe\nSarah Westcott \nSharon Black\nHannah Stone\nKaren Izod\n​Lee Mackenzie\n​​Natalie Shaw\nBecky Cherriman\nJohn Foggin\nJay Whittaker\nCaroline Maldonado\n\nM aria Isakova Bennett \nMaria\, from Liverpool\, founded and creates a han d-stitched poetry journal\, Coast to Coast to Coast\, received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2017/18\, and was invited to be poet and artist-in-res idence at Poetry-in-Aldeburgh for 2018. As part of her residency\, she cre ated stitch translations\, and a litany of work by 48 poets from the UK\, Ireland\, and France. She is widely published in the UK and Ireland and ha s written three pamphlets: Caveat (Poetry Bus\, Co. Wicklow\, 2015)\, All of the Spaces (Eyewear\, 2017)\, …an ache in each welcoming kiss (Maytre e Press\, 2019)\n\nIsabel Bermudez\nIsabel\, who lives in Orpington\, Kent \, has worked in Colombia in television as a Producer/Director and Cameraw oman specialising in documentary (1998-2001). In Sri Lanka\, she worked in educational television and as a Special Correspondent for the Island News paper (1993-1995). Her poems are widely published. Isabel was shortlisted six times for the Bridport Prize and was most recently commended in the 20 18 Winchester Poetry Prize. Her collections are Extranjeros (Flarestack Po ets 2015)\, Small Disturbances (Rockingham Press\, 2016) and Sanctuary (Ro ckingham Press\, 2018).\n\nLydia Harris\nLydia has made her home in the Or kney island of Westray\, leads occasional poetry workshops and works along side people who write in the Orkney language. Her poems have been publishe d in a range of magazines including The Rialto\, The Interpreter’s House \, and Magma. Her first pamphlet\, Glad Not to be the Corpse\, was publish ed in 2012 by Smiths Knoll. In 2017\, Lydia was awarded a Scottish Book Tr ust New Writer’s Award.\n\nRSVP\n\nALL WELCOME\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/08/Ballygallysq.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR