Essential viewing

Poetry from Maria Taylor and Jo Dixon, hosted by Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.

Jo Dixon reads ‘Skegness Wake’ from her collection Purl (Shoestring, 2020) and Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse, ed. by Andrew McRae and Paul Farley (Oneworld, 2020).

Author Interview with Maria Taylor, hosted by Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.

Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow, Anthony Joseph performs a selection of tridecasyllabic (13 syllable line) sonnets which commemorate and interrogate his complex relationship with his late father, while examining the wider edges of Caribbean masculinity and fatherhood.
‘ The performance features an improvised jazz soundscape with Jason Yarde on saxophone and Rod Youngs on drums, followed by a conversation between Anthony and Jason discussing poetic craft, inspiration and improvisation.