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Launch of Brittle Star issue 39 at Barbican Library

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Brittle Star cover issue 39JOIN US on Wednesday 30 November 2016 at 6.30pm at Barbican Library for the launch of Brittle Star issue 39 (yes! issue 39).

We have fantastic new poetry and short fiction from:

Kaye Lee, Edd Ravn, Sarah Marina, Peter Ebsworth, Rachel Thanassoulis, Michael Farry and Jayne Marshall.

And to accompany our readings we have wine and nibbles!

Entry is FREE, but space is limited so please contact the Library on 020 7638 0569 for tickets.

Barbican Library,  Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
nearest tube: Barbican or Old Street
(Reading starts at 7pm and the Library closes at 9pm).

Ha-appy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, hap-py birrrrthday

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BrittleStar-compSo, fifteen years on and we’re still bringing you fantastic poems and short fiction from around the world.

Oh my goooooood! A lot has happened in 15 years – we’ve lost a few editors along the way (but they’ve not wandered too far, we still meet up for food and drinks when we can), and I have more grey hair than is good for a girl and both me and Martin have more wrinkles than we care to think about – which is unfair because Brittle Star seems to be unaging (I suspect we might well be its painting in the attic). The magazine has had a few make-overs, though, and now is full of really wonderful articles and reviews of first full collections – which we’re very proud of. And we’ve kept a healthy subscription base, even in the lean years (which we’re also proud of), and we’re launching our second Writing Competition (this time judged by the lovely Alison Moore and George Szirtes along with me!).

We’re doing all this at our next launch for Issue 37, so come and join us at the Barbican library on Weds, 14 October at 7pm (doors open at 6.30) and share some amazing poems and stories and some Brittle Star Birthday Cake! (that deserves capital letters and the exclamation mark!) www.barbican.org.uk/library Book your FREE ticket now: 020 7638 0569 or by email barbicanlib@cityoflondon.gov.uk

See you there,

Jacqueline

Brittle Star issue 36 Launch at Barbican, London

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BStar-launch-36JOIN US on Wednesday 20 May at 6.30 at Barbican Library, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, for the summer launch of Brittle Star Issue 36.

We have fantastic new poetry and short fiction from:

Ruth Brandt, Stuart Foster, Robin Houghton, Ian McEwan, Jocelyn Page, Kathy Pimlott, Joolz Sparkes & Hilaire, Kate Taylor and Jonny Wiles.

And to accompany our readings we have our traditional summer Pimms & strawberries!

 

Entry is FREE, but space is limited so please contact the Library on 020 7638 0569 for tickets.

Nudge # 13 Dad’s Slideshow

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Slideshow-cvPoet and publisher Di Slaney’s debut pamphlet from Stonewood Press, Dad’s Slideshow, will be launched 11th April. We’ve asked her to give us a writing nudge for you. Here it is.

My dad is a shy, unassuming man who currently feels a little uncomfortable at the attention surrounding the arrival of my new pamphlet collection ‘Dad’s slideshow’, particularly as I’ve ‘borrowed’ his voice to create several of the poems.

Nudge # 13

Find a photo taken either by your dad, or of your dad. Or remember one that you know well, and hold that in your mind’s eye. Now write a poem as your dad, at that exact moment in time when the photo was taken and the shutter clicked. What is he thinking? Who or what is he looking at? Who is he talking to? What does he do next? What did he do before? Be unexpected – this version of a visual truth is up to you. I won’t tell him if you don’t …

– Di

(from Brittle Star editors – you can also use this nudge to write stories)