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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-poetry-reading-
 chris-mccabe-and-nine-arches-press/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Poetry Reading: Chris McCabe an
 d Nine Arches Press
DESCRIPTION:Sunday 7 September 2025 / 2 – 4 pm / Open Eye Gallery / free
 \, RSVP\n\nChris McCabe reads live for the Liverpool launch of his new boo
 k Hedonism. He will be joined by publisher Jane Commane from Nine Arches
  Press\, one of the UK’s leading independent poetry publishers. The even
 t gives a chance to hear McCabe and Commane in conversation\, exploring th
 e creative process of editing and sharing insights into how a book is made
 .\n\nHedonism presents a carnival of characters including Bez from Happy 
 Mondays\, Jorge Louis Borges and a medieval pilgrim on a journey to buy a 
 PlayStation\, in McCabe’s sixth and most daring collection. Part-written
  in Scouse dialect and invented languages\, Hedonism offsets the comic w
 ith the elegiac in a haunting and polyphonic work exploring the intersecti
 on of grief\, place\, memory and imagination.\n\nAbout Chris McCabe:\n\nCh
 ris McCabe’s work spans artforms and genres including poetry\, fiction\,
  non-fiction\, drama and visual art. His work has been shortlisted for the
  Ted Hughes Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His most recent
  poetry collection\, The Triumph of Cancer is a Poetry Book Society Reco
 mmendation and he is the editor of several anthologies including Poems fr
 om the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages
  and The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (with Victoria
  Bean). His novels are Dedalus and Mud. He is working on an epic series
  of psychogeographical prose books documenting the lost poets buried in Lo
 ndon’s Victorian cemeteries\, the latest of which is Buried Garden whi
 ch was chosen as a White Review Book of the Year in 2022. His latest boo
 k is Dreamt by Ghosts published by Tenement Press.\n\nImage: Chris McCab
 e
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CATEGORIES:Performance,Talks
LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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