HABITATION: Poetry from the Edgelands with readings by: Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite

WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER

DIAMOND, LT8, 6.15PM.

CENTRE FOR POETRY AND POETICS

UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELDHABITATION: Poetry from the Edgelands with Longbarrow Press with readings by:

Angelina D’Roza

Steve Ely

Pete Green

Rob Hindle

Chris Jones

Fay Musselwhite

Angelina D’Roza lives in Sheffield. For several years, she was writer in residence at Bank Street Arts, collaborating with artists, writers, and photographers. Her work appears in various journals and anthologies, most recently Blackbox Manifold and Shearsman. Her debut collection Envies the Birds was published in 2016, and her second collection The Blue Hour followed in 2023; both collections are published by Longbarrow Press.

Steve Ely’s poetry publications include Oswald’s Book of Hours, Englaland, Incendium Amoris, Jubilate Messi, Zi-Zi Taah Taah Taah, Lectio Violant, The European Eel, Lives of British Shrews, Orasaigh, and White Pony. Eely was published by Longbarrow Press in 2024. He has also published a novel, Ratmen, and a biographical work, Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough.

Pete Green is a poet and musician based in Sheffield. They write about coastlines and islands, edgelands, cities and the post-industrial, walking, railways, love, football, rock and roll, whisky, underachievement, and getting lost. Their first full-length collection The Meanwhile Sites is published by Salt. Pete’s short book Hemisphere and pamphlet Sheffield Almanac are published by Longbarrow Press.

Rob Hindle is the author of several collections of poetry, including Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864, Neurosurgery in Iraq, The Purging of Spence Broughton, a Highwayman, and Yoke and Arrows. Five long poems and sequences, collectively titled Flights and Traverses, appear in the Longbarrow Press anthology The Footing. The Grail Roads was Highly Commended in the 2019 Forward Prizes. His most recent collection, Sapo, is published by Longbarrow Press.

Chris Jones has lived in Sheffield since 1990. He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1996. From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a writer-in-residence at Nottingham Prison. He currently teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Since 2023, he has hosted The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which guest poets discuss authors who have influenced their writing. He also writes about swifts on his Substack Swift Diaries. His poetry publications include The Safe House, Skin, and Little Piece of Harm.

Fay Musselwhite lives in Sheffield. Her practice includes collaboration with artists in a broad range of creative media, on projects, often community-based, focusing on cultural displacement, ecology and working-class history. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, including the Longbarrow Press anthology The Footing. Her first collection Contraflow was published by Longbarrow Press in 2016. The Gleaning, also published by Longbarrow Press, is her second collection.

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