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University launches Reading Series

Award-winning poet, Matthew Welton will launch the University of Kent's first Reading Series on Tuesday 7 October.

The reading, will take place at 5.30pm in the Peter Brown Room, Missing Link, Darwin College, on the University's Canterbury campus. There is disabled access to Darwin College and the seminar room. The reading is organised by Patricia Debney, Canterbury Laureate and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University's School of English. The event is free and open to all.

Matthew Welton is 'a poet who has consistently (but slowly) produced some stunningly beautiful work', Dave Gorman, The Observer. His poetry has appeared in the anthologies First Pressings (Faber) and New Poetries II (Carcanet). He is a regular collaborator with the composer Larry Goves and has gained a strong reputation as a performer of his work.

His widely-acclaimed debut collection, The Book of Matthew, won the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize upon publication in 2003 and attracted rave reviews.

'The Book of Matthew, is something of an achievement: it arrives with a unique and distinct sensibility; his poems create their own evocative and elusive worlds. There is a kind of relaxed quizzical sensuality running throughout, an easy, compelling confidence', Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian (2004)

Other speakers in the University of Kent's Reading Series include; the Perdika Poets, Moniza Alvi, Marianne Bourch, Tony Lopez, Andrew McGuinness, Malcolm Andrews and George Szirtes.

Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 9:20am 3 October 2008