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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-four-poets/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Four Poets
DESCRIPTION:Four Poets\n\n\n\n\nThursday 24 October / 6 – 8 pm / Open Eye
  Gallery / free\, drop in\n\nLiPS (Liverpool Poetry Space) presents Four 
 Liverpool-based poets at Open Eye Gallery – come along to this free eve
 nt to discover the range of voices and dynamic approaches to poetry which
  pervade the current Merseyside scene.\n\nMaria Isakova-Bennett: Maria ha
 s five pamphlets: an o   an x and Painting the Mersey in 17 Canvases 
 (Hazel Press\, 2023 and 2022)\; Caveat (Poetry Bus\, 2015)\; All of the
  Spaces (Eyewear\, 2017)\; …an ache in each welcoming kiss (Maytree\,
  2019). In 2020 she created an artwork and pamphlet\, mira\, with poet J
 ohn Glenday. Maria founded the hand-stitched poetry project\, Coast to C
 oast to Coast\, working with writers in the UK and Ireland. Since 2017\, s
 he has stitched over 1200 journals as 24 editions. In 2018\, Maria was art
 ist and writer-in-residence at Poetry in Aldeburgh (Map Line and Stitch). 
 She is the recipient of the Peggy Poole Award and a New North Poet Award. 
 Maria works as writer-in-residence for The Life Rooms\, Mersey Care NHS F
 oundation Trust.\n\nMandy Coe: Mandy Coe is the author of seven books. She
  writes for adults and children. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC tele
 vision and radio programmes such as CBeebies\, Woman’s Hour and Poetry P
 lease.  She was the winner of the inaugural Manchester Poetry Prize. Her 
 latest collection for adults is There Will be Cherries (Shoestring Press
 \, 2016)\, and Belonging Street (Otter Barry Books\, 2020)\, her latest 
 collection for children\, was selected as one of the Independent’s top 
 ten poetry books.\n\nEleanor Rees: Eleanor has published five collections 
 of poetry\, Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot Press\, 2022)\, The W
 ell at Winter Solstice (Salt\, 2019)\, Blood Child (Pavilion\, 2015)\,
  Eliza and the Bear (Salt\, 2009)\, and Andraste’s Hair (Salt\, 2007
 )\, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
  Selections of Eleanor’s poems have been translated into French\, Spanis
 h\, German\, Lithuanian\, Slovak and Romanian. (Versopolis\, 2016\, 2019\,
  2024). She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award\, an Irish Glen Dimp
 lex New Writers’ Award and a Northern Writers’ Award. She is a Senior 
 Lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University in the School of
  Humanities.\n\nRobert Sheppard: Robert’s recent books include three vol
 umes of transpositions of traditional English sonnets\, The English Strai
 n (Shearsman\, 2021)\, Bad Idea (KFS\, 2021) and British Standards (S
 hearsman\, 2024) – though they are really about Brexit – and a meditat
 ion on authorship\, Doubly Stolen Fire (Aquifer\, 2023). Shearsman also 
 published his selected poems and a book of essays on his work. He is Emeri
 tus Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk) and
  he helped run the Liverpool poetry reading series\, Storm and Golden Sky
 . A critic of what is sometimes called ‘linguistically innovative poetry
 ’\, he also co-edited New Collected Poems by Lee Harwood.\n\nLiPS (Liv
 erpool Poetry Space) is a partnership project of people and organisations
  in Liverpool and the city region\, who have been working together since 2
 021. Established as a working group by Chris McCabe with the goal of creat
 ing a dedicated physical space for poetry in the city region\, LiPS is cur
 rently working as part of the Windows Project to produce a reading series 
 in 2024\, and to develop new partnerships for our work.\n\n\n
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