SUMMER 2017...
Literary festivals, poetry gigs, glorious gatherings and parties,
See you sitting on a hay bale in a field soon, my beautiful poetry loving friends!!
See you sitting on a hay bale in a field soon, my beautiful poetry loving friends!!
JUNE 30: LONDON, VOUT O'REENEE'S - FUNDRAISER FOR GRENFELL TOWER
JULY 6: LONDON, O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN - 'FOR THE MANY' GIG FOR CORBYN
JULY 21: CORNWALL, CHURCHTOWN
JULY 27: CORNWALL, THE ROCKPOOL, GODREVY
JULY 29-30: CORNWALL, PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL
AUGUST 5-7 - CHEPSTOW, GREEN GATHERING FESTIVAL
AUGUST 25: EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
SEPT 7-10: PORTMERION, FESTIVAL NO. 6
SEPT 14: HASTINGS, THE WHOLE SHEBANG WITH EMMA JOLIFFE
SEPT 16: SCOTLAND, KIRKCALDY, TAE SUP WI' A FIFER, WITH JAMES YORKSTON
SEPT 29: KENT, SMALL WONDER FESTIVAL WITH NIKESH SHUKLA
OCT 18: BRISTOL, FESTIVAL OF FUTURE CITY
OCT 29-29: FILMPOEM FESTIVAL
Salena
Godden - Summer 2017
Poet
and author of literary memoir Springfield
Road (Unbound) and
poetry books Fishing
In The Aftermath Poems 1994-2014 (Burning Eye) and
Under
The Pier (Nasty Little Press) Salena
Godden was shortlisted for this years Ted
Hughes Award
for new work in poetry with her spoken word album LIVEwire
released with independent spoken word label Nymphs
and Thugs. LIVEwire is out now on 4 formats: CD, digital download,
full-colour zine and double LP vinyl.
Short-fiction Blue
Cornflowers,
shortlisted for the 4th Estate and Guardian short story prize. This
piece was published in April 2017 in the Bare Lit Anthology (Brain
Mill Press). This summer Salena Godden was shortlisted for 'Best Spoken Word Performer’ in the 2017 Saboteur
awards and the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship shortlist.
Shade
was
published in The
Good Immigrant, this
number one bestseller was crowd-funded in record time and published
with Unbound. It featured as a Radio 4 'Book of the Week' and won the
Readers Choice Book Of The Year Award. It was also shortlisted in the
non-fiction category of The British Book Awards. The audio book and
paperback of The
Good Immigrant are out NOW!
New
work-in-progress, Mrs
Death Misses Death,
showcased at The Roundhouse, Last Word Festival, June 2017.
This work is in development, based on the
private letters, prose and poetry of Mrs Death, a collaboration of words with music composed by Peter
Coyte.
NEW!! "Mrs Death Misses Death" on Roundhouse Radio
Here are excerpts from 'Mrs Death Misses Death' performed live on June 1st at the Roundhouse Last Word Festival, broadcast on Roundhouse Radio on Mixcloud, click here. Thank you to Peter Coyte. Thank you for tuning in ... more on the way.
"Because we all know a lot of dead people now..." Mrs Death
LIVEwire
available in 4 glorious formats
CD | LP vinyl | 36-page full-colour zine | digital download
order LIVEwire from Nymphs and Thugs
visit Salena’s Bookshoppe
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