Adamantine: The Transatlantic Summer Tour!
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Adamantine [adjective]
1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved or penetrated.
2. Like the diamond in hardness or lustre
3. My third poetry collection!
Welcome to the first round of celebrations of the publication of Adamantine (Red Hen/Pighog Press, Pasadena), forthcoming July 11th in the US/Canada and December 11th in the UK. Containing tributes to an international range of artists and activists, and a lyric sequence responding to my breast cancer treatment, the book honours women’s tenacity and lustre. While not eco-poetry, whether by serendipity or occult foresight, the image of the hourglass is a recurring motif in the book, which is offered in the spirit of global solidarity that Extinction Rebellion has helped ignite this year – a grassroots uprising which may yet save us and our precious home.
After a pre-launch reading in Brighton July 18th, I’ll be touring North America with readings in New York City, Victoria, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Regina. Doing all that flying was not a decision I took lightly, but I’m also going over for a family reunion, and have paid my carbon offsets, so I hope all my XR mates can forgive me!
More UK events will follow in the winter and throughout 2020. Meantime I’m reading from the book and A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry at next weekend’s Palestine Expo. Hope to see London friends and summer visitors there!
ADAMANTINE
SUMMER CELEBRATIONS
[Full details on FB]
July 6th: Palestine Expo, ‘Creatives Corner’.Olympia London. 12:15-12:40. Reading also from A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry, as part of this massive, weekend-long celebration of Palestinian culture. Tickets here.
July 18th: Paper, Needle, Rock. ONCA Gallery. 14 St George’s Place, Brighton. 7-9 pm. Celebrating the US publication of Adamantine. With Helen Moore, launching her third collection The Mother Country, and Akila Richards, reading from her multimedia work ‘Barrel’, and Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry. OPEN MIC, details and tickets (£3 redeemable against cost of book) here.
Aug 7th: Westbeth Centre for the Arts, Manhattan. [TBC] 7 pm. With poets Farid Bitar, Rowyda Amin (TBC), Steve Bloom, Angelo Verga, and pianist Shahaba.
Aug 8th: Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. 7 pm. With Red Hen poet Dolores Hayden, reading from her third collection Exuberance, a tribute to the early days of aviation.
Aug 15th: Emily Carr House. Victoria. 2-4. With lemonade! The opening sequence of the book contains poems in honour of iconic Canadian artist Emily Carr and my late high school friend, writer Emily Givner. Emily’s family will be in attendance, so this is a very special event on the tour for me.
Aug 18th: Summer Salon. Vancouver. With poet Miranda Pearson, reading from her forthcoming fifth collection Rail (McGill-Queens UP). Email me for venue details.
Aug 22nd: McNally Robinson Bookstore. Saskatoon. Time TBA. And the grand finale – the Saskatchewan leg of my tour. The last time I was in Saskatchewan was 2008, so this will be an emotional homecoming!
Aug 24th: Mercury Cafe. Regina. 3-5 pm. Organised by literary maestro Brenda Niskala and presented by Sask Poet Laureate Bruce Rice.
[image error]
Adamantine [adjective]
1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved or penetrated.
2. Like the diamond in hardness or lustre
3. My third poetry collection!
Welcome to the first round of celebrations of the publication of Adamantine (Red Hen/Pighog Press, Pasadena), forthcoming July 11th in the US/Canada and December 11th in the UK. Containing tributes to an international range of artists and activists, and a lyric sequence responding to my breast cancer treatment, the book honours women’s tenacity and lustre. While not eco-poetry, whether by serendipity or occult foresight, the image of the hourglass is a recurring motif in the book, which is offered in the spirit of global solidarity that Extinction Rebellion has helped ignite this year – a grassroots uprising which may yet save us and our precious home.
After a pre-launch reading in Brighton July 18th, I’ll be touring North America with readings in New York City, Victoria, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Regina. Doing all that flying was not a decision I took lightly, but I’m also going over for a family reunion, and have paid my carbon offsets, so I hope all my XR mates can forgive me!
More UK events will follow in the winter and throughout 2020. Meantime I’m reading from the book and A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry at next weekend’s Palestine Expo. Hope to see London friends and summer visitors there!
ADAMANTINE
SUMMER CELEBRATIONS
[Full details on FB]
July 6th: Palestine Expo, ‘Creatives Corner’.Olympia London. 12:15-12:40. Reading also from A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry, as part of this massive, weekend-long celebration of Palestinian culture. Tickets here.
July 18th: Paper, Needle, Rock. ONCA Gallery. 14 St George’s Place, Brighton. 7-9 pm. Celebrating the US publication of Adamantine. With Helen Moore, launching her third collection The Mother Country, and Akila Richards, reading from her multimedia work ‘Barrel’, and Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry. OPEN MIC, details and tickets (£3 redeemable against cost of book) here.
Aug 7th: Westbeth Centre for the Arts, Manhattan. [TBC] 7 pm. With poets Farid Bitar, Rowyda Amin (TBC), Steve Bloom, Angelo Verga, and pianist Shahaba.
Aug 8th: Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. 7 pm. With Red Hen poet Dolores Hayden, reading from her third collection Exuberance, a tribute to the early days of aviation.
Aug 15th: Emily Carr House. Victoria. 2-4. With lemonade! The opening sequence of the book contains poems in honour of iconic Canadian artist Emily Carr and my late high school friend, writer Emily Givner. Emily’s family will be in attendance, so this is a very special event on the tour for me.
Aug 18th: Summer Salon. Vancouver. With poet Miranda Pearson, reading from her forthcoming fifth collection Rail (McGill-Queens UP). Email me for venue details.
Aug 22nd: McNally Robinson Bookstore. Saskatoon. Time TBA. And the grand finale – the Saskatchewan leg of my tour. The last time I was in Saskatchewan was 2008, so this will be an emotional homecoming!
Aug 24th: Mercury Cafe. Regina. 3-5 pm. Organised by literary maestro Brenda Niskala and presented by Sask Poet Laureate Bruce Rice.
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Photo by Brenda Niskala, 2008
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