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Beverley Bie Brahic: Poetry Reading


Thursday 13 Feb 2025, 19:00 to 20:30
Location:

The Broadway Bookshop
6 Broadway Market
London
E8 4QJ

Description:

Join poets Beverley Bie Brahic and Will Eaves at The Broadway Bookshop on Thursday 13th February to read from and talk about their latest collections of poetry, Apple Thieves and Invasion of the Polyhedrons. Drinks will be served.

Copies of both books, alongside a special collection of other works by Beverley and Will, will be available to purchase at the event.

Entry is free, but spaces are limited: more information can be found here.

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Beverley Bie Brahic grew up in Vancouver; today she lives in France. Apple Thieves is her fifth collection of poetry after Catch and Release, winner of the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival Alistair Reid Pamphlet Prize; The Hotel Eden; The Hunting of the Boar, a 2016 PBS Recommendation; White Sheets, a 2013 Forward Prize finalist for Best Collection and PBS Recommendation; and Against Gravity. Her many translations include books by Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous, and Charles Baudelaire; The Little Auto, her selection of Guillaume Apollinaire'™s First World War poems, was awarded the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize; Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud, was a finalist for the 2009 Popescu Translation Prize. She has received a Canada Council for the Arts Writing Grant and fellowships at Yaddo and MacDowel.

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