livestream: Heat Wave by Julian Stannard

Thursday 5th November

livestream - 7pm - free entry poetry event

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Join Julian Stannard via ZOOM to hear from his new collection of poetry - Heat Wave.

Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret, ‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches - truth can be masked by the burlesque and the grotesque: ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’. Heat Wave seeks to unsettle and wrong-foot; it refuses to adopt a sententious or holier than thou attitude regarding the many crises which confront us. The poems subvert as well as entertain. The reader might weep and laugh on the same page. The lyrical and the demotic might walk hand in hand.

Julian Stannard teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. His work has appeared in TLS, Spectator, Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry (USA) and Manhattan Review. Awarded the International Troubadour Prize for Poetry and nominated on several occasions for the Forward Prize, he has read at literary festivals across the UK, Europe and the US.

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You can order ‘Heat Wave’ from us at October Books here!