An Evening of Poetry with Carrie Etter, Harry Man, Claire Crowther and Jenny Lewis

On 5 December at 7.30pm in The Community Works, we welcome 4 excellent local poets to showcase their newest publications!

Warm up with an enticing evening of new and recent poetry featuring Oxford book launches and readings from – Real Lear: New and Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2024) by Claire Crowther, Popular Song (Nine Arches Press, 2024) by Harry Man, Grief’s Alphabet (Seren, 2024) by Carrie Etter and From Base Materials (Carcanet 2024) by Jenny Lewis.

Tickets are £5 each (£2 concessions) and all proceeds go to Oxford Poetry Library. Get yours in advance here to avoid disappointment!

Claire Crowther’s sixth collection is Real Lear New & Selected Poems. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize and her fourth was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2020. She teaches Creative Writing at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and is Deputy Editor of Long Poem Magazine. 

Carrie Etter has published five collections of poetry, most recently Grief’s Alphabet (Seren, 2024). Individual poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Poetry Review, and The TLS. She edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010), Linda Lamus’s posthumous collection, A Crater the Size of Calcutta (Mulfran, 2015), and Claire Crowther’s Sense and Nonsense: Essays and Interviews (Shearsman, 2024). She also writes essays, fiction, and reviews, and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol.

Jenny Lewis has published five collections including Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet, 2018) which was a New Statesman Book of the Year and Carcanet’s first audiobook. She has collaborated for 10 years with the exiled Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh on the award-winning, Arts Council-funded ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ project aimed at fostering friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her recent work includes From Base Materials (Carcanet, 2024) and a sequence of ecological poems for Mandala Theatre Company’s Seed Guardians. She teaches on the Oxford University Creative Writing MSt. www.jennylewis.org.uk

Harry Man’s Lift (Tall Lighthouse, 2014) won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. His second pamphlet, Finders Keepers, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His co-collection, authored with Endre Ruset, Deretter(‘Thereafter’, Flamme Forlag, 2021) won the Stephen Spender Prize and was a Dagblaget and Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year. He was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024. His first collection Popular Song (2024) is published by Nine Arches Press. He has translated Endre Ruset’s poetry collection Noriaki into English which is available from Broken Sleep Books. He is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and lives in County Durham. www.manmadebooks.co.uk

The building is accessible, but if you have any specific access needs, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand.