Poetry Reading with Poet Jodie Hollander

Photograph © Joanna Eldredge Morrissey.

7-8.00pm 10 May
The Writers’ Block, The Ladder, 2-4 Clinton Road, Redruth, TR16 5TF
Tickets: £ 7 Jodie will also be doing a workshop prior to the reading, please follow this link to buy tickets for the workshop which includes the reading.

Join us for a poetry reading with American poet Jodie Hollander at The Writers’ Block!

Jodie Hollander’s work has appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, PN Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press & Oxford University Press. Her second collection, Nocturne, will be published with the Liverpool & Oxford University Press in the spring of 2023. Hollander is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is also the originator of ‘Poetry in the Parks,’ in conjunction with several National Parks and Monuments in the US. She currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

“In Jodie Hollander’s poems, it is always monsoon season. Things come crashing down from the sky – pianos, coconuts, kangaroos, telephone receivers – into a fragile world, and the poems look up from the debris, changed.”

— Caroline Bird

Please book tickets for the reading  HERE

Jodie Hollander will be leading a workshop earlier in the day, please book HERE for both the workshop and reading.