Outside The Narrative: Stephanie Young and Tom Leonard

Wednesday, 24 October, 2018
The Poetry Club, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3 8QG
An exciting evening of poetry featuring Tom Leonard and Stephanie Young. Hosted by Colin Herd.

Tom Leonard photo Carol Peacock
(Photography by Carol Ann Peacock: www.carolannpeacock.com
Tom Leonard is a hugely influential and dynamic presence in contemporary poetry, internationally renowned for his political, lyrical, expansive writing, which includes Outside the Narrative (Poems 1965 – 2009) and Definite Articles (Prose 1973 – 2012). He is also the author of Places of the Mind, a biography of James Thomson (1993), Reports From The Present (1995) and the editor of Radical Renfrew (1990). More at: www.tomleonard.co.uk
Stephanie Young is an American poet, activist, and scholar who lives in Oakland, California. Young teaches at Mills College where she is also the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Programs. Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005), Picture Palace (2008), and Ursula or University (2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006) and co-edited , along with poet Juliana Spahr, the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012)
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