Poetry Club: Anthony Joseph & Rachel Long
Poetry Club: Anthony Joseph & Rachel Long at The Coronet Theatre, London
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Poetry Club: Anthony Joseph & Rachel Long: Anthony Joseph, Rachel Long
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About the show
Poetry Club returns to The Coronet Theatre for an evening of readings and conversation with two celebrated poets whose work moves between the intimate and the expansive, finding music, history and emotional truth in language. T. S. Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph and acclaimed poet and founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective Rachel Long read from their latest collections and discuss the inspirations, experiences and ideas that shape their writing.
Anthony Joseph reads from Haunting the Black Air, his new collection of poems spanning London, New York, Trinidad and beyond. Blending poetry, history and Caribbean cosmology, the collection moves through grief and joy with musicality and formal invention, unifying life’s beautiful fragments through rhythms of jazz and speech.
Rachel Long’s luminous new collection Sparrow on the Rooftop explores love, desire, longing and heartbreak with tenderness, wit and startling emotional precision. By turns fierce, funny and deeply moving, these poems map the complexities of intimacy and recovery.
Featuring - Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph is a poet, novelist, musician and lecturer described as ‘the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain’. His written work and performance occupies a space between surrealism, Jazz and the rhythms of Caribbean speech and music.
Rachel Long
Rachel Long is a poet and founder of Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour. Her poetry and prose have been published most recently in Filigree: An Anthology of Black British Poetry, and Mal - a journal of sexuality and erotics. She is Assistant Tutor to Jacob Sam-La Rose on the Barbican Young Poets programme and Poetry Fellow of the University of Hertfordshire