Autumn

4 www.ncl.ac.uk/nclawww.ncl.ac.uk/ncla5Thursday 12 November » 7.15pmTickets: £6/£4 (concessions)Thursday 26 November » 7.15pmCulture LabTickets: £6/£4 (concessions)£2 Newcastle University studentsCulture Lab£2 Newcastle University studentsBloodaxe International PoetsKim Addonizio© Elizabeth SandersonChoman Hardi© Soran NakshbandyKim Addonizio, Choman Hardi and Tony Hoagland launch newcollections of poetry on war, immigration, sex and the foibles of thehuman condition.America’s Kim Addonizio has been called ‘one of the nation’smost provocative and edgy poets’. Her poetry is renownedboth for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit.Her reading from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems mixes poetrywith blues harmonica.Choman Hardi launches her second English collection, Consideringthe Women, exploring the equivocal relationship between immigrantsand their homeland, as well as the experiences of women survivorsof genocide in Kurdistan. She returned to live inKurdistan last year.Tony Hoagland’s poems poke and provoke atthe same time as they entertain and delight. He isAmerican poetry’s hilarious ‘high priest of irony’.He pushes the poem not just to its limits but overthe edge, no more so than in his latest collection, Application for Releasefrom the Dream.Thursday 19 November » 7.15pmCulture LabMarilyn HackerMarilyn Hacker – Poetry ReadingTony Hoagland© Ann StaveleyTickets: £6/£4 (concessions)£2 Newcastle University studentsMarilyn Hacker’s poetry combines the political and the personal,the traditional and the radical. She is making a rare visit to the UK.Born in New York City, she is the author of several books includingEssays on Departure (Carcanet, 2006) and many collections of poetryincluding First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960–1979 (2003).She has received numerous honours, including the American PENVoelcker Award, (2010), the American PEN Award for Poetry inTranslation (2009), American Academy of Arts and Letters Award inLiterature (2004), the Poets’ Prize 1996 for Selected Poems, and theLenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets (1995).She lives in Paris.Julia Blackburn© Fiona MakkinkJulia Blackburn in conversation withWilliam FiennesJulia Blackburn, well known for previous booksof memoir and fictional biography, includingThe Three of Us, A FamilyStory and ThinPaths, has written abeautiful book aboutthe life of the Norfolkpainter John Craskeand has reintroducedhis paintings andembroideries to thepublic. She will bereading and discussingher new book Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske.‘Oh, what a miraculous book this is: parochial,weird and inconclusive in a way that few booksdare to be these days…’ Rachel Cooke, The ObserverThursday 3 December » 4pm(r)agency?Free but ticketed(r)agency? is a multidisciplinary network, drawing together a team of early-careerresearchers, working in a number of different fields – both creative and critical on the themeof anger and creativity, from the Universities of Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan, Newcastleand Sunderland. Join us to celebrate this project and engage with creative work that hasbeen generated by the participants.Venue to be confirmed – please check the website at ncl.ac.uk/ncla.www.ragencyproject.wordpress.com‘…she is exciting and true, and life practically spills from her poems.’George Szirties, The Guardian