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7pm Wednesday 20th September — St Senara’s Church Zennor — free event (donations to church funds)

MALCOLM MOONEY’S LAND

Grammarsow 2023 Resident Writer Tessa Berring (Edinburgh) reads alongside Kate Walters (Penzance) and Camilla Stacey (Penryn)

A St Ives September Festival Event with help from the Edwin Morgan Trust, Rebecca Althaus and Cornwall Poetry Library

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/321185200372546

More about Tessa: https://thegrammarsow.co.uk/2023/08/23/introducing-tessa/

‘What is the difference between surfaces and closeness?’

Our 2023 resident poet is Tessa Berring. Based in Edinburgh, Tessa is the author of Bitten Hair and Folded Purse (Blue Diode Press), Putty (If A Leaf Falls Press) and Cut Glass and No Flowers (Dancing Girl Press). She also works in visual art, art writing, translation, and collaboration. Her love of poetry centres around an attention to language as an elastic and emotional material, both transparent and opaque. Texture and intimacy, metonymy and riddles, all play a role in her writing practice – and always and deliberately woven through with the taut tender edges of silence.

‘The need for reality gives us strangeness. The strangeness gives lyric, that voice, so delicate and so raw: one feels like one is overhearing a love song in a time when all love songs are in crisis.’ (Ilya Kaminsky, on Bitten Hair)

‘Tessa Berring’s Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things.’ (Ellen Dillon, on Folded Purse)

Tessa will read at our annual St Ives September Festival event at St Senara’s Church, Zennor on Weds 20th Sept. She will be joined by Cornwall-based writer-artists Kate Walters and Camilla Stacey.

The Grammarsow is deeply grateful to the Edwin Morgan Trust for a travel grant, and to Rebecca Althaus for help with accomodation.

Check out Maria Sledmere’s reflections on her residency in Sept 2022.

https://mariaology.co.uk/2022/09/21/flying-in-the-mist-a-week-at-the-grammarsow/

Insects, stones, a cabin, WSG, GWR, craven ravens and a whisky god.

Thank you Maria!

7pm WEDS 14th SEPTEMBER 2022 — free event (donations for Church funds)

The Grammarsow brings Glasgow poet Maria Sledmere to Cornwall in the footsteps of WS Graham — she’s alongside Cornwall poets Sarah Cave and David Devanny

this event is a part of St Ives September Festival

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/499381688689472

find out more about Maria: https://thegrammarsow.co.uk/2022/09/06/introducing-maria/

Our resident poet in 2022 is Maria Sledmere. She is a poet, critic and artist based in Glasgow, where she also teaches. Currently, she is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, and Tutor at the University of Glasgow, Scottish Universities International Summer School and Beyond Form Creative Writing. She holds a DFA from the University of Glasgow on hypercritique and creative-critical approaches to lyric, the everyday and the anthropocene. She is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a member of the art and ecology collective, A+E. Having worked with musicians and artists including Lanark Artefax, Zoee and North Sea Dialect, she practices collaboratively and across media, theory and poetics. An exhibition with Katie O’Grady and Jack O’Flynn, The Palace of Humming Trees, was shown at French Street Studios in 2021. With Rhian Williams, she co-edited an anthology, the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020). Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, is out now with Dostoyevsky Wannabe following pamphlets such as nature sounds without nature sounds (Sad Press, 2019), neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press, 2020) and Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press 2020). Recent publications include Sans Soleil, a collaboration with fred spoliar (Face Press/Mermaid Motel, 2022) and String Feeling (Erotoplasty Editions, 2022). Her second collection, Visions & Feed, is forthcoming from HVTN Press.

Website: http://mariasledmere.com

Blog: http://mariaologyy.wordpress.com

Twitter: @mariaxrose

Instagram: @cherry_melancholic

6pm Saturday 21st September  — the Vicar’s Retreat, the Seven Stars pub, Falmouth — FREE EVENT

Grammarsow poet Stewart Sanderson joins from Glasgow. Penryn poet David Devanny reads poems from his recent Cornish coast path walk and introduces a GPS poetry app. The event will be a celebration of the legacy of WS Graham and a consideration of coastlines.

The Seven Stars was established on Falmouth Moor in 1660 and has been run by the same family for seven generations.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/411762316146024/

A belated Happy New Year from the Grammarsow. After the year of wonderful WS Graham Centenary events, we’re working to keep the Grammarsow going in 2019 and beyond. Watch this space and TTBB.