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THE RIALTO\u00a0READING at the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING<\/h2>\n

We invite you to a Poetry Reading to be held in the Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich on Thursday October 11th., from 7 until 9 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doors open at 7, join us for a glass of juice or wine, buy our books, settle down to listen at 7.30\u2026<\/p>\n

The Poets are Matt Howard, Michael Mackmin and Esther Morgan<\/strong> and they will be reading from their recent collections,\u00a0Gall<\/em>\u00a0(The Rialto, 2018), And<\/em>\u00a0(Happenstance, 2017) and\u00a0The Wound Register<\/em>\u00a0(Bloodaxe, 2018).<\/p>\n

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Matt Howard<\/strong>
\nMatt Howard lives in Norwich where he works for the RSPB.\u00a0Matt is also a trustee of\u00a0New Networks for Nature, an eco-organisation that asserts the central importance of nature in our cultural life.\u00a0Gall<\/em>\u00a0is his first full collection of poems.<\/p>\n

Matt Howard\u2019s poetry is intense and shapely, but capable of daring imagination. He combines the intimate, careful voice of the naturalist with a lush and unusual diction. His poetic world is both empirical and uncanny, examining the \u2018nature\u2019 of the inner body as well as the wild. This is a wunderkammer of a book, a fully realised first collection.\u2019 Kathleen Jamie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Michael Mackmin<\/strong>
\nMichael has worked as an editor with\u00a0The Rialto<\/em>\u00a0since he co-founded the magazine in 1984. From time to time he writes poems of his own. A few have been gathered into pamphlets, recently,\u00a0Twenty Three Poems<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0From There to Here<\/em>, both published by HappenStance and both now sold out. Helena Nelson generously published Michael\u2019s full collection\u00a0And<\/em>\u00a0late last year.\u00a0 The reading at Dragon Hall will be the first Norfolk reading from the book (apart from a two poem reading at Peter Scupham\u2019s famous poetry picnic).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little of what Hannah Lowe wrote in her recent review of\u00a0And\u00a0in\u00a0The North,
\n\u2018\u2026as for energy, the poems are full of it. The writing is robust, skilful and full of potent emotional force. The poems about poetry made me laugh aloud; others had me by the throat, in the way the best poems can.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Esther Morgan<\/strong>
\nEsther Morgan\u2019s fourth poetry collection,\u00a0The Wound Register<\/em>, is published by Bloodaxe Books (2018).\u00a0www.bloodaxebooks.com<\/a>. Its title is inspired by the Casualty Book, an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War. Written during the conflict\u2019s centenary, the poems apply the concept to her own family history in the aftermath of her great-grandfather\u2019s death at the Somme. Tracing the legacy of this loss over three generations,\u00a0The Wound Register<\/em>\u00a0grapples movingly with the question of whether it\u2019s possible to live and love while doing no harm. Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire in 1970 and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her third collection\u00a0Grace<\/em>\u00a0(Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She lives and works in Norfolk.<\/p>\n

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Please come to the event.\u00a0The poetry will be dynamic! AND you will also be able to take a look at the Great Hall inside the landmark Dragon Hall, a medieval merchant\u2019s house which is now home to the Norwich based National Centre for Writing.<\/p>\n

A map of how to get there can be found here. There is some on street car parking in King Street and nearby Rouen Road. There\u2019s also a large car park in Rouen Road. Walk down the alleyway beside Dame Julian\u2019s church and you will find yourself on King Street.<\/p>\n

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