Nottingham Poetry Society Reading: Ken Evans and Julie Gardner
Nottingham Poetry Society are pleased to announce that Ken Evans and Julie Gardner will read for us at The Playwright, 38 Shakespeare St, NG1 4FQ on Wednesday 21st February, 2-4pm.
Ken Evans
To An Occupier Burning Holes, Ken’s latest collection, is published by Salt. He contributed to Broken Sleep’s Masculinity anthology (Jan. 2024) as well as Live Canon’s round-up anthology for 2023 and was one of two runners-up in last year’s AUB poetry competition.
Individual poems feature in Poetry Scotland, Magma, Under the Radar, 14, The High Window, The Interpreter’s House. He won the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition (2018). Ken reviews for The Manchester Review and The High Window.
Ken has lived for 30 years near Matlock in Derbyshire and finished an MA in poetry in 2015 at the University of Manchester.
Julie Gardner
Julie Gardner is a retired primary school teacher who is currently working towards a PhD at Nottingham Trent University. She is a poet and writer who helps to facilitate Nottingham Stanza which meets monthly to discuss the work of a recent collection or a named poet. Her literary work focuses on the themes of women's lived experience and she has been published in London Grip, Left Lion, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester anthology and on the Nottingham City of Literature website and online publication, 'I am not a silent poet'.
She has lived in Nottingham for seven years. She also enjoys listening to classical music, walking and eavesdropping in cafés and on trains.
This event is free for members or £4 for non-members (pay on the day).