Bob Beagrie – author event

The Library is pleased to announce that they are hosting a poetry event on Wed 29 Mar. Bob Beagrie and students (past and present) from MA Creative Writing will be performing their own work.

Bob Beagrie will read from his latest book, The Last Almanac, on Wednesday March 29, 6-7pm in room L2.02 on the second floor of the Library.

Spanning twenty years, the poems in The Last Almanac are compressed into a single year’s calendar, charting subtle seasonal shifts, phases of the moon, ancient holy days, moments of the seemingly mundane, and the peaks and troughs of living, growing, loving, gathering-in and letting-go.

Drawing upon the pastoral and post-pastoral traditions this collection is, among many things, an evocation of the memory-scapes of both urban and rural settings and an exploration of the psycho-emotional impact of an ever-changing environment through a sustained instinct toward ‘soul-making’.

These poems, for all their formal artistry, experimentation and contemporaneity, have their roots firmly planted in a shamanic sensibility.

All welcome - Refreshments available