With 32 Artists and Craftsmen all across Caversham this is your opportunity to catch up with what has been going on creatively in the town over the last 12 months.

Come and hear Lesley Saunders reading from her new collection Cloud Camera at 3pm @ venue 2

Download a full brochure of venues and events here.
Caversham Arts Trail

The event will also be the launch of Lesley Saunders’ new collection Cloud Camera.

These are the poets you can meet, and greet, and hear reading:

At 6pm: Tom Phillips, Kate Behrens and Adrian Blamires

At 8pm: Ian House, Susan Utting, Lesley Saunders

The event is part of the national Museums at Night event and is absolutely free .

Museums at Night is a national event when hundreds of museums, galleries, libraries, archives and heritage sites open their doors for special evening events. It takes place between Friday May 18 – Sunday May 20 2012

With 32 Artists and Craftsmen all across Caversham this is your opportunity to catch up with what has been going on creatively in the town over the last 12 months.

Come and hear Susan read from her new collection Fair’s Fair and Gill from her collection The Agister’s Experiment at 3pm, at venue 2

Download a full brochure of venues and events here.

His concludes his review with this summary…

I’d like to close by revisiting Utting’s dexterity with language. Besides her freely-scattered and lively compound adjectives, there are many other verbal felicities to be found throughout the book. A frisbee is a light hearted discus; a woman talking while she smokes a cigarette experiences the thrill / of words burning, becoming caterpillars // of long ash; in a neighbourhood pub, smokers with their roll ups and full strength have kippered the walls. In the poem ‘Breathing’ – which concentrates a lifetime into four short stanzas – she tells us Age thickens us with air that’s heavy, toxic / with the teem and yowl of industry. Such quotations give a foretaste of the many pleasures and surprises that await the reader of this thoughtful and varied collection.

To read the full review, please click here.

“There is nothing ‘clinical’ about these poems except their sharpness of vision and their ability not to flinch; they let us inside their subjects – scientific, medical, historical – with a disconcerting physicality. In poem after poem you meet rich and arcane knowledge with a sense of new discovery as well as recognition: fundamental human work is being done. Most of all, it is a book of delights, to be pounced on, read with appetite…” ~ Philip Gross

Lesley Saunders is the author of several books and pamphlets of poetry, including Christina the Astonishing (with Jane Draycott and artist Peter Hay) and Her Leafy Eye (with artist Geoff Carr), both published by Two Rivers Press. Lesley’s work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and has won major awards; she has held several poetry residencies, and is involved in various collaborations and commissions.

The poem Germ Theory from this collection:

Two Rivers Press poet, Susan Utting, will be among the British and Eurasian poets reading their own works.

Please join us for this free and fascinating event at the historic Holywell Music Room in Oxford.

Fair’s Fair has been described as ‘joyous, heartbreaking, ramm’d with life’ with poems that shimmy in the mind long after closing the cover.’

The book cover features a linocut illustration by Sally Castle. Sally has also worked with Susan on one of her previous books: Houses Without Walls, also published by Two Rivers Press. Books will be available to buy at the venue (or directly from this site).

The artwork for many of the other books that Sally has illustrated will be on show at venue 21 together with paintings, lino cut prints and lettering.

Throughout the weekend, Christine Brewster will also be exhibiting her work in the garden at venue 21: Christine is a contemporary functional basket-maker, using willow and traditional techniques to make baskets with flowing lines and organic forms.

Don’t miss a chance to meet the poet and the artists!

When: 2pm on Saturday, 5 May, 2012
Where: venue 21: 2 Wisteria Cottage, Ruscombe Lane

Full Details and Directions to Arts Trail Venue 21 at Henley Art Trail.

More images of Sally’s work can be seen at here.
More of Susan’s work here .

121-147 Orts Road|Reading, Berkshire|RG1 3JN

All are welcome to this evening of poetry readings from A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens and encounters with the poets.

Admission Free.

Copies of A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens will be available at Heffers Bookstore (directly opposite the college) at 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge (UK)

Tickets £3/£2

E-mail libraryevents@reading.gov.uk or collect from Reading Central Library.