This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite Link which will appear on our Home Page around ten days before the date.
Amanda Dalton is a poet, playwright and essayist. Her poetry collections How To Disappear, Stray and Fantastic Voyage (May 2024) are published by Bloodaxe Books. Poetry pamphlets include an experimental ‘sketchbook,’ 30 Poems In Thirty Days (Arc 2021) and Notes on Water (smith|doorstop 2022). For theatre and BBC Radio 4 and 3 she writes original drama, essays and adaptations and she frequently works in collaboration with other artists and artforms. She is a visiting lecturer at Manchester University and MMU’s Writing School. Amanda lives in Hebden Bridge. Her website is at amandadalton.co.uk
Kathy Pimlott has three pamphlets with The Emma Press: After the Rites and Sandwiches (2024), Elastic Glue, (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016). Her collection, the small manoeuvres, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2022. Her poems have been published widely in print and onilne magazines, including Magma, Mslexia, The North, Poem, Finished Creatures, Under the Radar, And Other Poems, The Friday Poem and London Grip and in several anthologies. Kathy was born and brought up Nottingham but has lived for close on fifty years in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, home of the broadsheet and the ballad.