The Language Club presents Norman Jope, Kenny Knight, and Steve Spence

Part of Plymouth International Book Festival 

Join local poets Normal Jope, Kenny Knight and Steve Spence for an evening of live poetry reading.

Norman Jope has published For the Wedding-Guest (Stride, 1997), The Book of Bells and Candles (Waterloo Press, 2009), Dreams of the Caucasus (Shearsman Books, 2010) and Aphinar (Waterloo Press, 2012) and his poetry has appeared in many magazines and webzines across the world. He is also one of the organisers of The Language Club, a long-established live poetry collective based in Plymouth. 

Kenny Knight’s first collection of poetry, The Honicknowle Book of the Dead, was published by Shearsman Books in 2009 and deals with his youth and childhood in Plymouth from the skewed and hilarious summit of an adult perspective.

Steve Spence, author of A Curious Shipwreck, shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection, has had a long-term involvement with poetry but only really started writing his own in the mid nineteen nineties when he became involved with The Poetry Exchange, a group based at Plymouth Arts Centre.