Friday 18th May, 6pm – 7pm
Please join us for an informal poetry reading at IASH from Visiting Research Fellow Dr Jeanette Lynes and Edinburgh poet Jane Bonnyman, inspired by the lives and works of 19th-century writers John Clare and Fanny Stevenson. Jeanette will read from her award-winning collection Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems, and Jane will read from her latest collection, An Ember from the Fire: Poems on the Life of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson.
Jeanette Lynes directs the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where she is also a Professor of English. Jeanette's first novel, The Factory Voice (Coteau Books, 2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank Giller Prize and a ReLit Award. This work of historical fiction is inspired by women who built war planes in northern Ontario during World War II. Her seventh book of poetry, Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems received the 2016 Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award. Her second novel, The Small Things That End The World (Coteau Books), will appear in May 2018. The novel concerns three women and a great deal of bad weather.
Jane Bonnyman is from Edinburgh and studied English at the University of St Andrews. In 2013, she was a Clydebuilt 7 mentee, and it was during this time that she began work on her first pamphlet which came out last year entitled An Ember from the Fire: Poems on the Life of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, published by Poetry Salzburg. Her poems have appeared in Caterpillar Children’s Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Reader and Magma.
A wine reception will follow the reading.