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Join us to hear from two new poetry pamphlets by the award-winning ignitionpress!Set between Scotland and Mexico, the poems in Patrick Romero McCafferty's glass ∙ knot ∙ sun pose perennial questions of love, labour and land. Through the central metaphors of building (from adobe bricks to boat making) and gathering (from windfall almonds to fishing nets), the poem becomes part record of subsistence, part song.
Patrick Romero McCafferty's poetry has been shortlisted for numerous prizes and published in literary journals including Irish Pages, Wasafiri and the Rialto. He was a Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentee in 2022 and a member of the Southbank New Poets Collective in 2024. He co-founded Wet Grain and performs as a vocalist with the band anoraq.
Burntisland by Ian Farnes is about a town misremembered, where degeneration was once clearly visible - in the shipyard, mines and abandoned village; places where people worked until their bodies were used up by labour. In Ian Farnes’s immersive poetry we dig beneath the surface to find a landscape of great beauty haunted by ancestors whose lives are intimately connected to the here and now.
Ian Farnes is from Burntisland but now lives and works in Barcelona. He left school at fifteen to work in his local shipyard but later studied at the University of Glasgow. His poetry has appeared in Gutter, Spelt, Lighthouse and in an anthology by Broken Sleep.
Find out more about ignitionpress, the poets and pamphlets on the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre website: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/poetry-centre/ignitionpress
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