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SUMMARY:Clare Hall Literary Society: Isobel Dixon and Simon Barraclough - 
 Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Benjamin Morris
DESCRIPTION:Clare Hall Literary Society presents\nSummer Reading Series: S
 imon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon\nTuesday\, 15 July 2008\, 8.00pm\nAnthon
 y Low Building\, Clare Hall\n\nIs the heat getting to you? Feeling deprive
 d of poetry over these long\, sultry summer months? The Clare Hall Literar
 y Society presents a reading by two poets whose recent collections have se
 t the UK publishing world ablaze\, a reading which promises to fight fire 
 with more fire. Isobel Dixon\, author of ‘A Fold in the Map’ (Salt\, 2
 007)\, and Simon Barraclough\, author of ‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ (Salt\
 , 2008)\, will be reading from their work\; introductions to each poet by 
 Helen Mort and Melanie Challenger. £3/2 on the door\, cash bar available\
 , any questions to Benjamin Morris at bam32@cam.ac.uk.\n\nIsobel Dixon's t
 wo collections\, 'Weather Eye' (Carapace 2001) and 'A Fold in the Map' (Sa
 lt 2007)\, share a fascination with place\, nostalgia\, the human and the 
 creaturely. Her poems chart the painful yet fruitful regions of displaceme
 nt\, occupying the space between her native South Africa and her life in E
 ngland. Her work appears in many poetry journals such as Seam\, Succour\, 
 FIN\, The London Magazine and The Warwick Review.\nhttp://www.saltpublishi
 ng.com/books/smp/9781844713967.htm\n\nSimon Barraclough won the poetry sec
 tion of the London Writers’ Competition in 2000 and his debut collection
  ‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ was published by Salt in April 2008. Described
  simultaneously as ‘a relaxed formalist\, a hands-off sensualist\, a sub
 tle polemicist\, and a humorist you can take seriously\,’ his work has b
 een published widely in magazines such as Poetry Review\, The Manhattan Re
 view\, Time Out\, and Magma\, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Ra
 dio 3.\nhttp://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713158.htm
LOCATION:Anthony Low Building\, Clare Hall
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