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Sheri Benning
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Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
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Please join Evan Jones online on Tuesday 4 November for the launch of his new collection Men of the Same Name!💻

The event will be hosted by Jim Johnstone and will feature reading and discussion.

Tickets cost £2, later redeemable against the cost of the book:🎟️
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Men of the Same Name: Carcanet Online Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Men of the Same Name by Evan Jones, hosted by Jim Johnstone. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so that you can read along. Men of the Same Name is satirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, Paris, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the evils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna. What if, Jones asks, instead of using the ancient world as a metaphor for modern life, the poet uses modern life as a metaphor for the ancient world? Working in this way between allegory and reality, the book rethinks poetry’s changing relationships to politics and our historical moment. Registration for this online event will cost £2, redeemable against the cost of the book. You will receive the discount code and instructions for how to purchase the book in your confirmation email as well as during and after the event. Canadian poet Evan Jones [Ευριπίδης Ιωάννου] lives in Manchester. His first collection of poetry, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (2010) and has since published Paralogues (2012) and Later Emperors (2020). His translation from the Modern Greek, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose of C.P. Cavafy (2020), was a TLS Book of the Year. Jim Johnstone is a Canadian poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023).
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Really looking forward to reading the new book! Make sure to let me know when you're launching in Saskatoon and I'll be sure to spread the word. Again, huge congrats!
Ken, that's phenomenal. Huge congratulations!
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Now THIS is how you write acknowledgments in a scholarly book (from Irmbtraub Huber's 2023 Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry). What a welcome note of urgency and conviction
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From London Review of Books for 24/7/24 - just what I needed in these times:
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Shane McCrae, one of my favorite living poets, has sent a chill up my spine.
Congratulations on the PhD, Jazz! I will miss you at Carcanet!
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Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
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Oskar Laske -The Bird Sermon of St. Francis of Assisi.
What a beautiful boy. All our love to you & Alicia.
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Grateful and excited to have a poem out with South Dakota Review:
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PN Review 280: wonderful piece by Lesley Harrison on gannets, quills and the luminous benefits of the handwritten poem.
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Feel good poem I published in @poetrylondon.bsky.social this past Spring for my first post here!
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‘until the town becomes a cinema’

from John Burnside’s last book, ‘Ruin, Blossom’
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I am happy to have poems in the special summer poetry issue of the Fiddlehead. Here’s one of them.
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How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.