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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.

 http://www.facebook.com/notes/bloodaxe-books/tishani-doshi-priscila-uppal-spring-2013-readings-in-britain-ireland/10151380457849211

 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

https://wordsworth.org.uk/attend-events/2013/04/23/poetry-reading-priscilla-uppal-and-tishani-doshi.html

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