Event overview
Katrina Naomi will be reading from her collection, The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, and Aoife Mannix will be performing an extract from her spoken word show, One Stage At A Time
Katrina Naomi is currently writer-in-residence at the Arnolfini. Her poetry has appeared in the TLS, Spectator and Poetry Review, and been broadcast on Radio 4. Previous publications include The Girl with the Cactus Handshake (Templar Poetry), which was shortlisted for the London New Writers Award; Charlotte Brönte’s Corset (Brönte Society); Lunch at the Elephant and Castle (Templar Poetry) which won the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition; and Hooligans, (Rack Press, 2015), inspired by the Suffragettes. Katrina holds a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, is a Hawthornden Fellow, and was the first writer-in-residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. She has received awards from the Royal Literary Fund and Arts Council England. She lives in Cornwall and is a freelance tutor for Falmouth University, the Poetry School and Arvon.
Katrina will be reading from her second collection, The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, which has just been published by Seren. http://www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Aoife Mannix is the author of four collections of poetry and a novel. She has been poet in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. She has toured internationally with the British Council including most recently Mexico, Vietnam and Nigeria. She has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London and has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Goldsmiths. She has previously been commissioned to write for the National Archives, National Poetry Day, the BBC World Service, Portsmouth Museum, Bronte Parsonage, Wellcome Collection, and the National Gallery of Ireland amongst others.
She will be performing an extract from her spoken word show, One Stage At A Time, which is currently being researched and developed in partnership with Apples and Snakes and supported by Arts Council England. The show is inspired by the blog she kept after being diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2015 - https://livingasanalien.wordpress.com/
Dates & times
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| 12 Oct 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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