A Reading: Wilson, Branfoot, Rowland and Linklater

Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: A Reading: Wilson, Branfoot, Rowland and Linklater

Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, Presents:

• Susie Wilson

• Antony Rowland

• Tom Branfoot

• Jazmine Linklater

Half poet, half tutor, half clown, Susie Wilson is a Scottish auDHD writer living in Sheffield. She has published two pamphlets: Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve, 2024), which won the Disabled Poets Prize Best Pamphlet 2024 and Skin the Rabbit (The Braag, 2025). She is now spending a year writing and recording long poems about the Don and the Spey rivers, including collaborating with musicians and other performers, funded by the Arts Council. She mentors, teaches for Writing East Midlands’ Beyond the Spectrum and facilitates Manchester Poetry Library’s Sub Club, now also monthly at Sheffield Central Library. She lives with advanced melanoma.

Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford, and the writer-in-residence at Manchester Cathedral. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2024 and the New Poets Prize 2022. He organises the poetry reading series More Song in Bradford. Tom is the author of This Is Not an Epiphany (Smith|Doorstop) and boar (Broken Sleep Books), both published in 2023. His poem ‘A Parliament of Jets’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2025. Volatile, his debut collection, is forthcoming with The 87 Press. 

Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. Her new poetry pamphlet is Snagged on red thread with Monitor Books. She is currently undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University. 

Antony Rowland has published four poetry collections: The Land of Green Ginger (Salt, 2008), I Am a Magenta Stick (Salt, 2012), M (Arc, 2017) and Caldebroc (Arc, 2023). Rowland received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2000, and he was awarded the Manchester Poetry Prize in 2012. He was invited to record work for the UK Poetry Archive in 2009, and the Lyrikline (Germany) in 2014. The Dutch government elected him as a UK poetry ‘ambassador’ for 2016: his poetry was read on national television and shown on screens at Schipol airport and Amsterdam Central Station.

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Event curated by ágnes lehóczky

Sheffield and beyond, all warmly welcome.