Bloodaxe Books | Launch reading by Selima Hill, Hannah Lowe and Stephanie Norgate @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This Bloodaxe Books launch reading by Selima Hill, Hannah Lowe and Stephanie Norgate celebrating the publication of their new poetry collections livestreamed at 7pm BST on Thursday 16th September.
Hannah Lowe and Stephanie Norgate will be reading live and discussing their new collections with the host, Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley, with audio recordings included of Selima Hill reading from and discussing hers with Emily Berry, editor of The Poetry Review, from a Poetry Society podcast. The full podcast can be heard here: soundcloud.com/poetrysociety/selima-hill-talks-to-emily-berry-1
Selima Hill: Men Who Feed Pigeons
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Hannah Lowe: The Kids
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Stephanie Norgate: The Conversation
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For details of the poets’ previous books, click on these links:
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bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/hannah-lowe
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/stephanie-norgate
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Selima Hill: Men Who Feed Pigeons
Men Who Feed Pigeons is Selima Hill’s 20th collection, and is shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Poetry. The book brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women’s relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work; The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else’s husband; Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman; Biro is about living next door to a mysterious uncle with a dog; The Man in the Quilted Dressing-gown portrays a very particular old man; Ornamental Lakes as Seen from Trains is about a woman and a man she’s afraid of; while Shoebill is another sequence about a woman and a man, but quite different from the others.
Thanks are due to The Poetry Society for permission to include excerpts from her podcast with Emily Berry in this online event.
Hannah Lowe: The Kids
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are ‘The Kids’, her students, the teenagers she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London. Across these deeply felt poems, she interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race – and their fundamental intersection with education – are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. The sonnet is re-energised, becoming a classroom, a memory box and even a mind itself as ‘The Kids’ learn and negotiate their own unknown futures. These boisterous and musical poems explore and explode the universal experience of what it is to be taught, and to teach, ultimately reaching out and speaking to the child in all of us.
Stephanie Norgate: The Conversation
In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child’s sleep or a lit-up house. Textiles transform into remembrancers, landscape into emotion. A scrap of handwriting, cafe talk, an exploding car, the naming of fields or a line of walkers ignite conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.
Many thanks to Pete Hebden and NCLA for technical support.
This Bloodaxe Books launch reading by Selima Hill, Hannah Lowe and Stephanie Norgate celebrating the publication of their new poetry collections livestreamed at 7pm BST on Thursday 16th September.
Hannah Lowe and Stephanie Norgate will be reading live and discussing their new collections with the host, Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley, with audio recordings included of Selima Hill reading from and discussing hers with Emily Berry, editor of The Poetry Review, from a Poetry Society podcast. The full podcast can be heard here: soundcloud.com/poetrysociety/selima-hill-talks-to-emily-berry-1
Selima Hill: Men Who Feed Pigeons
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/men-who-feed-pigeons-1278
Hannah Lowe: The Kids
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-kids-1277
Stephanie Norgate: The Conversation
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-conversation-1262
For details of the poets’ previous books, click on these links:
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/selima-hill
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/hannah-lowe
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/stephanie-norgate
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Selima Hill: Men Who Feed Pigeons
Men Who Feed Pigeons is Selima Hill’s 20th collection, and is shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Poetry. The book brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women’s relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work; The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else’s husband; Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman; Biro is about living next door to a mysterious uncle with a dog; The Man in the Quilted Dressing-gown portrays a very particular old man; Ornamental Lakes as Seen from Trains is about a woman and a man she’s afraid of; while Shoebill is another sequence about a woman and a man, but quite different from the others.
Thanks are due to The Poetry Society for permission to include excerpts from her podcast with Emily Berry in this online event.
Hannah Lowe: The Kids
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are ‘The Kids’, her students, the teenagers she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London. Across these deeply felt poems, she interrogates the acts of teaching and learning with empathy and humour. Social class, gender and race – and their fundamental intersection with education – are investigated with an ever critical and introspective eye. The sonnet is re-energised, becoming a classroom, a memory box and even a mind itself as ‘The Kids’ learn and negotiate their own unknown futures. These boisterous and musical poems explore and explode the universal experience of what it is to be taught, and to teach, ultimately reaching out and speaking to the child in all of us.
Stephanie Norgate: The Conversation
In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child’s sleep or a lit-up house. Textiles transform into remembrancers, landscape into emotion. A scrap of handwriting, cafe talk, an exploding car, the naming of fields or a line of walkers ignite conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.
Many thanks to Pete Hebden and NCLA for technical support.
