Books & Spoken Word
Arnolfini Book Club – Salena Godden
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- Salena Godden
Latest in a series of author talks and performances features one of the UK’s leading poets, Salena Godden.
She is the author of the collection Fishing in the Aftermath: Poems 1994-2014 (published by Bristol-based Burning Eye Books) and the literary memoir Springfield Road. Her live spoken word album LIVEwire was released with indie spoken word label Nymphs and Thugs and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry 2017. A pamphlet collection of new poetry Pessimism Is For Lightweights will be published by Rough Trade Books in June 2018.
She will be performing some of her favourite poems and sharing exclusive excerpts from her latest work.
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