Join us for what has become something of a tradition at Burley Fisher with The Gentle Author and friends reading from their work to celebrate the festive season.
Stephen Watts will be reading from Journeys Across Breath, Burley Fisher's Book of the Year 2022 with Sarah Winman reading from her novel Still Life
The evening will be accompanied with festive refreshments and merriment!
Stephen Watts's most recent books are 'Republic Of Dogs/Republics Of Birds' (Test Centre 2016 & Prototype 2020) & 'Journeys Across Breath ; Poems 1975-2005' (Prototype 2022). A 70 minute b/w film of 'The Republics' was made by Huw Wahl in 2019 & two exhibitions related to Stephens' work were held at PEER Gallery Hoxton (2021) & Nunnery Gallery Bow (2022). 'A Book Of Drawn Poems' is forthcoming soon from Joe Hales's Sylvia imprint.
The Gentle Author is the writer and creator of Spitalfields Life. The Gentle Author has published several books and anthologies including Spitalfields Life, The Life and Times of Mr. Pussy, East End Vernacular, The Gentle Author’s London Album, The Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism and many more.
Sarah Winman is the author of four novels: When God was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways, and Tin man. Her most recent is Still Life; a book that begins in 1944 with the chance meeting on a Tuscan roadside between a young soldier and an ageing art historian. It spans fours decades and moves from the East End of London to Florence.
Stephen Watts will be reading from Journeys Across Breath, Burley Fisher's Book of the Year 2022 with Sarah Winman reading from her novel Still Life
The evening will be accompanied with festive refreshments and merriment!
Stephen Watts's most recent books are 'Republic Of Dogs/Republics Of Birds' (Test Centre 2016 & Prototype 2020) & 'Journeys Across Breath ; Poems 1975-2005' (Prototype 2022). A 70 minute b/w film of 'The Republics' was made by Huw Wahl in 2019 & two exhibitions related to Stephens' work were held at PEER Gallery Hoxton (2021) & Nunnery Gallery Bow (2022). 'A Book Of Drawn Poems' is forthcoming soon from Joe Hales's Sylvia imprint.
The Gentle Author is the writer and creator of Spitalfields Life. The Gentle Author has published several books and anthologies including Spitalfields Life, The Life and Times of Mr. Pussy, East End Vernacular, The Gentle Author’s London Album, The Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism and many more.
Sarah Winman is the author of four novels: When God was a Rabbit, A Year of Marvellous Ways, and Tin man. Her most recent is Still Life; a book that begins in 1944 with the chance meeting on a Tuscan roadside between a young soldier and an ageing art historian. It spans fours decades and moves from the East End of London to Florence.