#wharf chambers

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Black Pudding // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // 31.10.2018

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hey friends -- we are having another event!

Zarf 9 : poetry, text, speaking and the written weird

Friday 23rd February

7pm, Middle Floor, Wharf Chambers, Wharf Street, Leeds featuring:

ELEY WILLIAMS & JESSICA TILLINGS & TOM CROMPTON

Eley Williams is a writer and lecturer based in Ealing, West London. A poetry pamphlet Frit (Sad Press) is available as well as a collection of stories Attrib. and other stories (Influx Press), the latter listed among Best Books of 2017 by The Guardian, The Telegraph and The New Statesman and chosen by Ali Smith as one of 2017's best debut fiction at the Cambridge Literary Festival.

Jessica Tillings is a poet, artist, editor & events organiser based in West Lancashire. She co-founded & co-manages the reading series Reverb, & co-chairs Edge Hill University's gender & sexuality research groupGenSex. Her poetry has appeared in The Wolf, DATABLEED & ZARF. New work is forthcoming in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. She can be found at: www.tideeula.weebly.com

Tom Crompton is a poet from Lancashire, living in London. His recent work can be found in para.text,Zarf and adjacent pineapple:  https://www.adjacentpineapple.com/tom-crompton

FREE ( donations for poets welcome) - also a table selling poetry and other poetic things! Bring things to sell/ share! ACCESSIBILITY: This is in the Middle Floor, which is up a flight of stairs and two steep steps into the room itself. There are toilets on the Middle Floor. We will use amplification. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs we can help out with.

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Cat Apostrophe at Wharf Chambers in Leeds

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YOWL // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // 31.10.2018

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YOWL // Wharf Chambers, Leeds // 31.10.2018

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our next poetry reading – we’re incredibly excited for this one!!

CA Conrad

Linda Kemp

& Calum Gardner

7pm, Monday 6th November 2017 Wharf Chambers (Middle Floor) Wharf Street, Leeds

FREE but donations for poet costs are welcome and there will be a book & zine table!

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CAConrad is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays and the latest is titled While Standing In Line For Death from Wave Books (2017).  He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Ojbect and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (from Delinquent Films 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Linda Kemp’s poetry publications include Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016), Blueprint (2015), Immunological (2014), and an album, speaking towards (2015). As a free improviser Linda performs with piggle, soft architecture, After Lucretius, and in other formations and solo guises, usually to be found around Sheffield and its environs. They edit Enjoy Your Homes Press and co-run Electric Arc Furnace, a poetry reading series in Sheffield.

Calum Gardner is a poet, critic, and editor of Zarf poetry magazine. Originally from Glasgow, Calum currently teaches English Literature at the University of Leeds. Their poems have appeared in places such as Datableed, Jungftak, 3:AM, and Adjacent Pineapple.

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PLEASE NOTE: the venue is up a wide flight of metal steps. We are keen to put on events in fully accessible venues in future and please get in touch at [email protected] if you have thoughts on this.

Wharf Chambers is a members’ co-operative, You do not need to be a member or guest of a member to attend this event UNLESS you wish to buy things the bar. Joining is £1, takes 48hrs to process and is very much encouraged. http://www.wharfchambers.org/membership/

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zarf magazine presents: poetry!

readings by Lila Matsumoto and Nia Davies

7pm, Tuesday 6th June 2017 Wharf Chambers (Middle Floor) Wharf Street, Leeds

FREE but donations for poet costs are welcome and there will be a book & zine table!

PLEASE NOTE: the venue is up a wide flight of metal steps. We are keen to put on events in fully accessible venues in future and please get in touch at [email protected] if you have thoughts on this.

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About the poets: 

Nia Davies was born in Sheffield and studied English at the University of Sussex. She has been editor of Poetry Wales since 2014 and has worked on several international and collaborative projects such as Literature Across Frontiers, Wales International Poetry Festival and Wales Literature Exchange. A frequent collaborator with other poets and artists, she co-curated Gelynion, a Welsh Enemies project on collaboration in contemporary poetry in Wales in 2015. Her pamphlets, Then Spree (Salt, 2012), Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words (Boiled String, 2016) and England (Crater, 2017), were followed by her first book-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). She is currently undertaking practice-based research at the University of Salford.

Lila Matsumoto’s publications include Soft Troika (If a Leaf Falls Press) and Allegories from my Kitchen (Sad Press). Lila’s poetry and criticism have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including Jacket2, Tripwire, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry; she is also a frequent performer of her work and has performed at places such as the SoundEye Festival and the Little Sparta garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Lila teaches creative writing at the University of Nottingham, where she convenes the Nottingham Poetry Series: https://nottinghampoetryseries.wordpress.com/

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Zarf in Leeds 2!

we had another amazing reading – Leeds is such a poetry town! relive the wonders...

twitter moment about the reading we just had in Leeds!