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:10516@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250412T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250412T160000 DTSTAMP:20250331T120016Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-poetry-reading- eleanor-rees-and-luke-thompson/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Poetry Reading: Eleanor Rees an d Luke Thompson DESCRIPTION:Saturday 12 April / 2–4 pm / Open Eye Gallery / free\, RSVP\ n\nEleanor Rees reads live from her new Portent and Portals: New and Selec ted Poems\, a book which gathers a body of work written over three decades exploring post-industrial edgelands\, cityscapes\, parks and gardens\, es tuaries and shorelines\, margins and peripheries\, real and otherworlds. D rawing from five collections\, out-of-print pamphlets and presenting new p oems written with the Wirral peninsula\, the selection also includes many collaborations\, commissioned and participatory poems emerging from her on going practice as a local poet responding to place and communities with vi vid imagination and poetic craft. Rees will be joined by Luke Thompson\, e ditor\, writer and publisher from Guillemot Press\, Cornwall who will give an insight into small press publishing and creative book design followed by a Q&\;A hosted by Dr Pauline Rowe to explore the significance of Sel ected poems in a writing life of a poet\, the editorial process and the br oader themes alive in Rees’s poetry.\n\nAbout Eleanor Rees and Luke Thom pson:\n\nLuke Thompson is a writer and editor from Cornwall. As a writer\ , recent books include Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals (Ortac Press\, 2024)\, Treasures of Cornwall (Macmillan\, 2023)\, and A Guillemot Guide to Very Small Press Publishing (Guillemot\, 2022). As an editor\, Luke has worked with publishers of all shapes and sizes\, f rom the micro to the Big Five\, across poetry\, fiction and non-fiction. H e is the founding co-editor of the award-winning Guillemot Press.\n\nElean or Rees‘s New &\; Selected Poems gathers together a body of work span ning three decades\, five collections and several pamphlets\, along with a new sequence Five Breaths. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillem ot\, 2022)\,The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt\, 2019)\, Blood Child (Pavil ion\, 2015)\, Eliza and the Bear (Salt\, 2009)\, and Andraste’s Hair (Sa lt\, 2007)\, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Co llection. Selections of her poems have been translated into Lithuanian\, S lovak\, French\, German\, Romanian and Spanish (Versopolis\, 2016\, 2019\, 2024). Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern W riters’ Award\, and she is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Live rpool Hope University.\n\nImage: Potents and Portals\, fragment of the boo k cover ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/03/PortentsCover-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Events,Literature & Poetry,Live 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:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR