How does poet Susan Utting feel about the most recent review of her collection, Half the Human Race? “Thrilled,” says Susan. Ruth Sharman’s marvellous and comprehensive review for The High Window can be read at Reviews for Autumn 2017.
“There is a quiet feminism at work here, celebrating that female characteristic of ‘managing small things’, the ability to make do, to ‘thrive on other people’s leftovers’, to be so much more than the product of men’s imaginings, ‘sweethearts, dolls… posable, blow-up generous… nice arse, a lovely pair’, as ‘Half the Human Race’ concludes, with an abruptness that emphasises how much more there is to be said: ‘…Say we’re all / of this and none of it and more, and this / is nothing like the end of it. Say’”
“Susan Utting’s new collection includes some forty new poems plus a selection from her three earlier books. There is so much here to enjoy…a collection whose generosity – eighty poems in total – is matched by the breadth and richness of the poet’s vision and by the sheer exuberance of her language.”
Octopus Medicine
On Magnetism
Whispers of Better Things: The Social Impact of the Hill Family
Picture Palace to Penny Plunge: Reading Cinemas
Octopus Medicine
Storms Under the Skin: Selected Poems, 1927-1954
The Shady Side of Town: Reading’s Trees
Stanley Spencer Poems An Anthology
You are invited to attend a poetry reading at the Swindon launch of Susan Utting’s Half the Human Race: New & Selected Poems.
Join us at the Poets’ Café to hear Susan Utting and other poets read their works.
On Sunday, 12 March, 2017, Half the Human Race: New and Selected Poems by Susan Uttig, was launched! If you were not at the launch, here’s a summary of what you missed.
When: March 17th at 1.30pm. Free.
Half the Human Race: New & Selected Poems
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The 40 stations of BBC local radio marked National Poetry Day by each broadcasting a poem commissioned from 40 #BBCLocalPoets Each poet has adopted the voice of a characteristic local landmark or mascot: from Lincolnshire sausage (Gemma Baker, BBC Radio Lincolnshire) to Essex’s infamous A12 (Luke Wright, BBC Radio Suffolk).
The Book of Snow
The Turbine House is a unique building that spans the Kennet, with waterside views towards Reading town centre. It houses preserved turbine machinery and hosts occasional summertime art exhibitions and events.
Waterstones Reading Broad Street is thrilled to welcome the author, Professor Peter Robinson, Professor of English and American literature at Reading University, as he launches his first novel ‘September in the Rain’.
Interference Effects
Funded by the Reading BID as part of their ARENA arts and culture programme for the town centre. With this contribution to the Reading Year of Culture 2016, we have been able to put on a series of 4 walking tours in the town centre, based around our books (some published, some yet to be published). This is a chance to hear the stories direct from the authors’ mouths and, of course, to buy the books so you can explore further in your own time.
Saturday: My journey to Cyprus Well has been long and tiring but I arrive to find the afternoon sunlight falling in wide bands across the kitchen.
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, on his 452nd birthday, Live Canon commissioned 154 contemporary poets (including two Two Rivers Press poets, Lesley Saunders and David Attwooll) to each pen a poem in response to one of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.
