What’s on in York: Finding the Words

York Explore Library :

Thu 22 Mar :

6.45pm – 8.00pm :

£3 (or £2 with a York Card).

Finding the Words with poets Jade Cuttle, Keith Hutson and Ruth McIlroy

Finding the Words is a regular poetry evening every month at York Explore Library. Each evening brings together three poets and we aim to include both published writers and those working towards a collection. We’ll have a bar available and readings last around an hour. The evening is also a chance to share and chat, so please feel free to bring any news or information about poetry local, regional or national.

Jade Cuttle  After reading literature at University of Cambridge, Jade Cuttle released her poetic-folk  debut album ‘Leaves & Lovers’ to BBC Introducing acclaim. She has performed her poetry on BBC Radio 3 in association with BBC Proms (‘The Art of Splinters’) and been commissioned for other BBC podcasts like celebrating Shakespeare’s 400th. She was appointed Poet-in-Residence for Ilkley Literature Festival 2017, mentored by Daljit Nagra, and a 2018 Ledbury Poetry Festival Emerging Poetry Critic, after winning competitions run by Ledbury Poetry Festival, BBC Proms, Poetry Book Society and Foyle Young Poets. She is also a journalist and has written for The Observer, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

 

Keith Hutson has written for Coronation Street and many well-known comedians. His poetry has been widely published in journals including The Rialto, The North, Stand, Magma, The Manhattan Review, and he has had several competition successes, including in The YorkMix, The Troubadour, The Mclellan, and the Cornwall Contemporary. In February 2017 he was Carol Ann Duffy’s guest poet at the Royal Society of Literature’s TS Eliot Memorial event. His debut pamphlet Routines (2016) was published by Poetry Salzburg where he is now a co-editor. His latest pamphlet Troupers (smith | doorstop) is a 2018 Laureate’s Choice.

 

Ruth McIlroy will be reading from her pamphlet, Guppy Primer, the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Pamphlet Choice. She has spent most of her life in Edinburgh, and now lives with her family and works as a psychotherapist in Sheffield.

 

Booking

In person at any Explore York Library.

By phone: 01904 552828

Email: york@exploreyork.org.uk

Max: 50

What’s on in York: Revealing the Past from Above: Aerial Archaeology in England

Mar _20RevealingYork Explore Library :

Tue 20 Mar :

6.15pm 7.45pm :

£6, or £5 with a YorkCard

Join Historic England’s Matthew Oakey as he explains how archaeologists use new technologies such as lidar to identify sites and piece together the jigsaw of information to reveal the layers of history that have shaped the modern landscape.

Every year, hundreds of archaeological sites are discovered using aerial photography – from prehistoric settlements to lost landscapes of the First and Second World Wars. More recently new technologies such as airborne laser scanning (lidar) have uncovered landscapes in remote uplands or hidden under woodland. Join Historic England’s Matthew Oakey to find out how archaeologists use these technologies to reveal the layers of history that have shaped the modern landscape.

To book tickets please click here.

What’s on in York: Blackout & Cut-Up Poetry Workshop

Mar _20blackoutpoemClifton Library :

Tue 20 Mar :

3.30pm – 4.30pm :

Free

A poetry workshop for adults – create your own blackout/cut-up poetry out of photocopied pages from some of our books. All material provided! All levels of expertise welcome!

Blackout poetry:  blacking out the words on an established page of writing, to create a poem out of the remaining words.

Cut-up poetry: cutting out individual words from a text and arranging them into a poem.

Join us for an informal blackout and cut-up workshop at Clifton library, where we will use (photocopied!) pages from a variety of our books  to create fabulous, funny, moving and surreal new poems, just in time for World Poetry Day (21 March)!

No need to book. Free event. Contact sarah.peploe@exploreyork.org.uk if you’d like more information!