Dream Catcher Events
Dream Catcher on the Road
2008 got off to a busy start for Dream Catcher with events in Bath, Newcastle, Sheffield and at the StAnza festival in Scotland.
On May 7th, Dream Catcher 21 had a Canadian launch in Hamilton, Ontario with readings by Mario Susko and DC Haskins. Dream Catcher 21 also includes an essay on Canadian poetry by Chris Pannell and we are working towards a special Canadian issue for publication in Spring 2009.
Dream Catcher Author Scoops Radio Prize
Congratulations to Stephen Loveless who won the Radio Netherlands radio books writing contest with 'Hibakusha', broadcast on 28 May, 2008. The story was first published in Dream Catcher 20.
Stephen says: "On a Hiroshima day, while listening to a piece about the dropping of the bomb on the radio, an odd line came into my head about some obnoxious group of people that called themselves The Hiroshima Celebration Party. A few days afterwards someone asked me to come up with a short film script about bullying and somehow the two came together. The story was completely born when research gave me the meaning of the word Hibakusha – the term given to those people who survived the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The script was written but never used and so I wrote it as a short story instead. I was born in Leeds. Jobs have included being an archaeological technician, a security guard, a woodsman etc. I have had over 45 short stories published, also cartoon strips, non-fiction features and film shorts including ‘Washing Strangers' (Central TV first cut award, broadcast 1998). I am currently the course director of creative writing at the University of Leicester and am also a tutor for the Writing School. But, most importantly, I write every chance I get."
To read Hibakusha, just click here.
Dream Catcher at The Speakers' Corner, York
Wednesday 10 September
Doors open 7.30 for an 8pm start
Admission £1. Open mic slots available on the night
On Wednesday 10th September, Dream Catcher authors take the stage at the Speakers' Corner. Your chance to hear the work of:
Tony Flynn - Brighton's Tony Flynn first came to prominence as a contributor to the anthology A Rumoured City, edited by Douglas Dunn, in 1982. Since then he has published two further poetry volumes, A Strange Routine and Body Politic, together with a number of pamphlets. Dream Catcher Books will publish The Mermaid Chair - New and Selected Poems later this year. He has received several awards for poetry and recently won first prize in the English Association Fellows' Poetry Prize.
Ian Parks - Ian was born in 1959 and was one of the National Poetry Society New Poets in 1998. His collections include A CLIMB THROUGH ALTERED LANDSCAPES, SHELL ISLAND and THE CAGE. Recent poems appear in the Observer, the Liberal, the Independent on Sunday and POETRY (Chicago).
Pauline Kirk - A good friend of the Speakers' Corner and a previous guest performer in her own right, Pauline is a widely published poet and author of two novels - Waters of Time (Century Hutchinson and Ulverscroft) and The Keepers (Virago/Little Brown) - as well as senior partner in the Fighting Cock Press. Her New and Selected Poems, Walking to Snailbeach (Redbeck Press), is still available and her latest collection, Envying the Wild (Fighting Cock Press), was launched earlier this year.
Copies of performers' work, and of Dream Catcher, will be available for sale.
Dream Catcher Authors in Sufi Poetry Evening
Afifa Emutallah and Dream Catcher editor Paul Sutherland will join other poets at the Saltaire Bookshop, Shipley on Saturday 20th September, 6:30pm-8pm, for an evening of Sufi poetry inspired by the work of Jallaludin Rumi. The reading marks the launch of Afifa Emutallah's collection of poems, photography and artwork, Return, a book described by one reader as 'a journey that leaves us breathless and illimunated.'
Wolds Words Festival - A Partnership
Looking ahead to October, we are working with the Wolds Words Festival on a new, exciting regional partnership. The focus in 2008 will be on writers and their creative development.
Conco Room, Louth Library, 24th October, 2pm
Tickets: £4 per adult
Contact: 01507329437
Do you want to write about Louth? Why not join poet and Dream Catcher editor Paul Sutherland on a walking tour to get your poetic juices flowing? Paul will focus on the senses as a way into writing meaningfully about those places of personal interest that stir your creativity.
For more information about the 2008 Wolds Words Festival, click
here.
Dream Catcher Books publishes major new collection from Tony Flynn.
Tony Flynn first came to prominence with the publication in 1982 of A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull. Individual collections followed, including Body Politic and A Strange Routine, which established him as a major talent. The publication of The Mermaid Chair: New and Selected Poems reinforces this reputation and offers readers a retrospective insight into the work of a singularly powerful poet. Tony Flynn won the 2007 English Association Poetry Prize.
'What is poetry? Flynn's work is one place I might start my explanation.'
David Kennedy, PN Review
'Flynn has developed a poetic register that is admirable in its discipline and economy.
Nicholas Tredell, London Review of Books
'Tony Flynn possesses a rare combination of tact and directness in getting his politics into his poetry ... Flynn so consistently displays such sophistication and incisiveness while remaining infallibly accessible across a range that extends from the wittily erotic to the humanly outraged. Douglas Houston, Poetry Review
Watch this space for details of forthcoming readings by Tony Flynn.
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