Okechukwu Nzelu, Helen Palmer & Nathan Walker: North Faces

Join Barnsley-born poet and Pity author Andrew McMillan as he hosts a showcase of literary talent from the North of England. Tonight McMillan presents a prismatic range of writers – novelists Okechukwu Nzelu and Helen Palmer, poet and performance artist Nathan Walker – as well as Alicia Byrne, the inaugural winner of the Tempest Prize for unpublished LGBTQ+ writers (run in collaboration with New Writing North). Come and hear the groundbreaking work from some of the most exciting literary talent working today.

Categories: Performance, Poetry

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Poetry & Performance

Our line-up this year is a brilliant demonstration of everything exciting in UK poetry: diverse, eclectic in form and content, and ranging from ‘the best words, in the best order’ (to quote John Donne) to poems which demand to be spoken and lifted from the page completely…

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