The 2015 Settle Sessions starts off with two leading northern poets and writers on Friday 17th April at The Folly in Settle.
Carole
Bromley (right) teaches Creative Writing at York University. Some of her
poems have appeared iin Poetry
Review, Magma, Rialto, The North, Interpreter's House, Poetry News,
Ink Sweat and Tears. Her
first collection, A
Guided Tour of the Ice House (Smith/Doorstop
was published in 2011. Carole won the first prizes in Bridport, Yorkshire Open, Torbay, Bronte Society Literary Competitions, and will be juding the York Poetry Competition this year.
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Carole
Coates' most recent publication is a pamphlet called Crazy Days,
published by Wayleave Press in November 2014. Carol Ann Duffy
said of it "Crazy Days is stunningly, beautifully,
heart-breakingly marvellous. It's one of the best things I've
read all year." Carole (pictured left) has had three poetry collections and
will have her first novel published in 2016.
She
was given a Yorkshire Arts Award for an early poetry sequence. She
won the Nottingham Open Poetry Prize in 2011. She lives in
Lancaster where she helps to run The April Poets, and is a member of
Sixfold, a reading and performance group.
There
will also be an open mic session featuring local writing and
favourite poems. In April Floe Shakespeare and Hilary Holdsworth will
take part, with Ann Pilling and John Raubenheimer readng from the
poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Other
Sessions this year will be in June, September and November. Tickets
for the evening are £6 (£5.50 for members) available from Cave and
Crag, The Courtyard Dairy and 01729 823305. More details are at www.settlesessions.co.uk.
