PN Review 2019 Summer Launch

Castlefield Gallery is thrilled to be welcoming PN Review back to the gallery for their 2019 Summer Launch on Wednesday 24 July 2019 from 6:30pm, with readings from contributors John Wilkinson, Lisa Kelly, Joe Carrick-Varty, Jennifer Edgecombe, Stav Poleg and Andy Croft.

This event is free & refreshments will be served. Please reserve a ticket via Eventbrite.

John Wilkinson was born in London and grew up on the Cornish coast and on Dartmoor. After university at Cambridge he trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked in mental health services and public health in the West Midlands, South Wales and London’s East End. In 2005 he moved to the United States and has held academic positions at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Chicago where he is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Director of Creative Writing. Wilkinson has held Fulbright and National Humanities Center fellowships. His extensive publications include Selected Poems (Schedule of Unrest, 2014), and his most recent collection, My Reef My Manifest Array (2019).

Lisa Kelly is half-Danish and half-deaf. She is the Chair of Magma Poetry and co-edited issue 63, The Conversation Issue; and issue 69, The Deaf Issue. She is a regular host of poetry evenings at the Torriano Meeting House, London, and has an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Lancaster University. Her pamphlets are Bloodhound (Hearing Eye, 2012) and Philip Levine’s Good Ear (Stonewood Press, 2018). She is currently a freelance journalist specialising in technology, and has worked as an actress, life model, Consumer Champion, waitress, sales assistant and envelope stuffer. She teaches creative writing and poetry in performance at the Torriano Meeting House. Her first full collection, A Map Towards Fluency, is published in June.

Jennifer Edgecombe grew up in Cornwall and now lives on the Kent coast. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Ambit, Caught By the River, Lighthouse, PN Review and elsewhere.

Stav Poleg’s poetry has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, including in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry London and Poetry Ireland Review. Her debut pamphlet, Lights, Camera, was published in 2017. She has recently completed work on the manuscript of her first full-length poetry collection. Her graphic-novel installation, Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning, created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. She servers on the editorial board of Magma Poetry and teaches at the Poetry School, London.

Joe Carrick-Varty won the 2018 New Poets Prize and his debut pamphlet Somewhere Far was published by The Poetry Business in June of this year.

Andy Croft has written and edited many books, including Red Letter Days, Comrade Heart, A Weapon in the Struggle, Red Sky at Night (with Adrian Mitchell) and After the Party. His books of poetry include Ghost Writer, 1948 (with Martin Rowson), Three Men on the Metro (with WN Herbert and Paul Summers) A Modern Don Juan (with NS Thompson et al), Letters to Randall Swingler and The Sailors of Ulm (forthcoming). He curates the T-junction international poetry festival in Middlesbrough, runs the Ripon Poetry Festival and edits Smokestack Books.

The event will begin at 6:30pm, refreshments will be provided and copies of PN Review available to buy. Tickets are free but please reserve them via Eventbrite.

For any enquiries about the event please email jazmine@carcanet.co.uk.