Roy McFarlane, Michael Henry, Tricia Torrington

What happens when a husband and wife collaborate on a poetry collection? Tricia Torrington and Michael Henry’s life together has inspired a stunning new collection ‘A Second Look at Rubin’s Figure’, in which they present alternate poems with their take on the same events and the same subjects.

Michael Henry is the author of six collections. his latest Bureau of the Lost and Found was praised for “its rich understanding of the invisible connective tissues of individual lives and national cultures” (Tears in the Fence).

Tricia Torrington is an award-winning poet and author of the dazzling Opium Fish. Former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane reads “poems of great power” (Hannah Lowe) from Beginning With Your Last Breath. This debut collection explores love, loss, adoption and identity in powerful, precise and emotionally-charged poems.

The event will be held in the Playhouse Lounge.