Upcoming Events
Book Tour
In April and May Bloodaxe Books is sending Priscila on an extensive book tour including festivals in Galway, Ireland and Liverpool, England, as well as readings in Newcastle, Edinburgh Scottish Poetry Library, Hull, Sheffield, and Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage in the Lake District.
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TISHANI DOSHI & PRISCILA UPPAL
Spring 2013 reading tour for Bloodaxe Books
Two outstanding international poets published by Bloodaxe are giving seven readings in Britain and Ireland in spring 2013. Tishani Doshi, an Indian poet and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent, reads from Everything Begins Elsewhere. Priscila Uppal, a Canadian poet and fiction writer of South Asian descent, reads from Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010.
NEWCASTLE
Monday 22nd April
Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts
Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 7.15pm, £6/£4
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/item/tishani-doshi-and-priscila-uppal
GRASMERE (Wordsworth Trust)
Tuesday 23rd April
The Daffodil Hotel, Grasmere, Cumbria, 7.30pm, £7
EDINBURGH (Scottish Poetry Library)
Wednesday 24th April
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, 6.30pm, £7/£5
http://www.spl.org.uk/connect/events/tishani-doshi-priscila-uppal
GALWAY (Cúirt International Festival of Literature)
Friday 26th April
Tishani Doshi & Lucy Caldwell (fiction event)
Town Hall Theatre Studio, 1pm, €8/€6
http://www.cuirt.ie/event/148-tishani-doshi-a-lucy-caldwell.html
Saturday 27th April
Tishani Doshi, Priscila Uppal & Tiffany Atkinson
Town Hall Theatre, Studio Sessions, 11am, €8/€6
http://www.cuirt.ie/event/156-priscila-uppal-tiffany-atkinson-a-tishani-doshi.html
HULL (Head in a Book Readings)
Friday 3rd May
Hull Central Library, James Reckitt Reading Room, 7.30pm, free
http://www.headinabook.co.uk/index.php/readings/
SHEFFIELD (Lyric 2013, University of Sheffield)
Saturday 4th May
St George’s Church Lecture Theatre, 17 Mappin St, 7pm–8pm, free (prebooking advisable)
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/lyric/2013/index
LIVERPOOL (Port of Call international poetry reading series)
Wednesday 8th May
School of Arts Library, 19-23 Abercromby Square, 5pm, free (prebooking advisable)
http://www.lgos.org/events/index.php?page=event&event_id=889453
For more information on their books see:
PRISCILA UPPAL
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248602
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJA6gmB2UjA
TISHANI DOSHI
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852249366
