Join Juno Books for a delightful evening of poetry reading and conversation from the wonderful Susie Wilson and Nell Farrell.
There will be readings from both new and previously published work, an exploration of the queer aspects of their poetry, and signing of their work.
Half poet, half tutor, half clown, Susie Wilson is a Scottish LGBTQ+ writer living in Sheffield, who has published two pamphlets, Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (with Verve Poetry Press, winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2024) and Skin the Rabbit (with The Braag). She is now spending a year writing long poems about the Don and the Spey rivers, including collaborating with musicians and other performers, funded by the Arts Council. She also mentors, teaches for Writing East Midlands’ Beyond the Spectrum and facilitates Manchester Poetry Library’s Poetry Sub Club, also now at Sheffield Central Library this autumn.
Nell Farrell was born in Eastwood, Notts, and so shares her birthplace with D. H. Lawrence and the Midland Railway. She has now lived in Sheffield for a very long time. She has published three pamphlets The Wrong Evangeline, A Drink with Camus after the Match and Mermaids and Other Devices. She published a full collection Derrida’s Monkey with Pindrop Press in 2018. Her work life has included training social work students, creating a volunteer programme at the fabulous Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and managing an advice and support service. She worked as a creative writing tutor and ran Heeley Women Writers for over twenty years. She is now retired and volunteers as a Football History tour guide.
