Join Louise Machen and J. Daniel West, alongside guest readers, for the launch of their conversational poetry pamphlet, 'The Words of Others are All We Have' on Thursday 16th May, 7-9 pm, at The Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX.
Tickets are FREE, but capacity is limited. Refreshments will be provided for all attendees.
Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night.
"Urgent, vivid and important poetry from perspectives that tend to be silenced, grasping, among other things, the entrapments of poverty, and the slipperiness of memory." - Dave Haslam
"In focussing on deep inequalities, the two writers in this collaborative work shine an uncomfortable but necessary light on the grime of neglected areas and the insurmountable challenges people born without privilege face in trying to break out of the poverty trap." - Matthew MC Smith
"These powerful poems will leave the reader bathing in that 'fire and flood' of yesteryears long gone, leaving the inevitable question; where does that now leave us?" - Scarlett Ward
"These conversation poems rise above their beginnings like a plume: part smoke, part accusation and part defiance and without sentimentality into vital poetry." - Jack Caradoc
