Popular Song - Live at the Torriano with Harry Man & Special Guests!

Popular Song - London Launch - Live at the Torriano

A rare and special evening celebrating the launch of Harry Man’s debut collection ‘Popular Song’ in London alongside some very special guests from across the UK including Martha Sprackland, Tom Weir, Matt Bryden and Tiffany Anne Tondut.

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Entry: FREE

PLEASE NOTE THAT KENTISH TOWN TUBE IS GOING TO BE CLOSED

SO NEAREST TUBE IS TUFNELL PARK

“Harry Man breaks our world apart, then puts it back together in an utterly unique way ... a giant, wondrous exclamation mark of a book.” - Rishi Dastidar

Popular Song, the eagerly awaited debut from Harry Man, is an electric adventure into science, science fiction, and pop culture.

This is a free event. RSVPs are appreciated as they help us anticipate the number of guests. Come early to get a seat!

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About our readers:

Martha Sprackland

Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. She has taught for Arvon and the Poetry School, and is a mentor for the Women Poets’ Prize as well as a Trustee for the Rebecca Swift Foundation. Martha’s translations, reviews and fiction have appeared widely. Her debut Citadel(Pavilion Poetry, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award.

http://www.marthasprackland.co.uk/

Tom Weir

Tom Weir’s poetry has been Highly Commended in both The Forward Prize and The National Poetry Competition. He has won the Magma Editor’s Choice Prize and was one of the inaugural winners of the Templar IOTA Shots competition. He has published two full collections All That Falling and Ruin, for which he is grateful to have received a grant from the Arts Council. Having spent many years living in the north of England, he now lives in Bristol.

https://tomweirpoetry.org/

Matt Bryden

Matt Bryden’s first pamphlet Night Porter won the Templar Pamphlet and Collection Award and was followed by his first collection Boxing the Compass (Templar) and a book of translation The Desire to Sing after Sunset (ShowWe). Matt Bryden’s work as an EFL teacher has taken him to Tuscany, the Czech Republic and South Sudan. His most recent pamphlet is The Glassblower’s House (2023) was a winner of the Live Canon Pamphlet & Chapbook Competition. His poetry has appeared widely in anthologies, journals and magazines including Magma, Finished Creatures, Butcher’s Dog and Modern Poetry in Translation.

https://mattbrydenpoetry.co.uk/

Tiffany Anne Tondut

Tiffany Anne Tondut is a neurodivergent poet and artist living in South London. Her poetry has been commissioned, broadcast, anthologised and featured in publications including Magma, The Rialto, The Guardian Online and Best British and Irish Poets. Past prizes include the inaugural Poetry Archive Now! and Troubadour International. Her debut pamphlet Wanted was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2023. She is developing a new collection of poems, as well as a children's picture book.

“Pin-sharp when it comes to the moments that matter: the ones that linger. Wanted has the air of the last cigarette you know you shouldn’t smoke, but my god it’s worth it.” – Rishi Dastidar on Tiffany Anne Tondut 's Wanted

https://tiffanyannetondut.wordpress.com/

Harry Man

Harry Man has won the Stephen Spender Prize and a Northern Writers Award for Poetry. He has also been the recipient of the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. With Endre Ruset, he co-wrote Deretter (‘Thereafter’) which was published by Flamme Forlag in Norway and in pamphlet form by Hercules Editions in the UK. It was a Broken Sleep Books and a Dagblaget Book of the Year and an Iowa Review Award Finalist. Work from the collection has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has been additionally shortlisted for a Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and two Saboteur Awards. He has been a Clarissa Luard Award Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. He was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024. His first collection, Popular Song is published by Nine Arches Press.

www.manmadebooks.co.uk

To pre-order your copy of Popular Song visit: https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/popular-song