SOME of the biggest names in contemporary poetry are involved in a partnership to bring the spoken word to the heart of the community.
Teesside University has teamed up with Middlesbrough’s Smokestack Books, an independent publisher of radical and unconventional poetry, to host the readings as part of a regular series of poetry readings and events.
The readings are free to attend and are open to the university community and members of the public.
The programme continues in April with a visit by Steve Ely, whose first collection, Oswald's Book of Hours, was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013 and the Ted Hughes Award in 2014.
Mr Ely will be at the university on Tuesday, April 28 in the Athena Building, from 6pm.
Writer, poet, performer, photographer and artist Sheree Mack will visit the university in May.
Her new collection Laventille tells the forgotten story of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago, when an uprising of students, trade unions and the disaffected poor threatened to overthrow the government.
The performer will be at the university’s Athena Building, at 6pm on Tuesday, May 19.
For further information on attending the free readings, email arts@tees.ac.uk
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