Poetry reading: Coast to Coast to Coast

Join us for the launch of Coast to Coast to Coast prize winner Sarah Mnatzaganian’s Slow Movement and readings from Clare Best a previous Coast to Coast to Coast prize winner (2020/1) 

Slow Movement is a sensuous sequence of love poems expressed through the colours, sounds, materials, and obsessions of the metamorphoses of wood, cello making and sailing. 

There will be readings, refreshments and an opportunity to talk to poets and to buy hand-made limited edition journals. 

Event organised by artist and poet Maria Isakova-Bennett:  https://www.mariaisakova.com

Coast to Coast to Coast: https://www.mariaisakova.com/coast-to-coast-to-coast

Poetry from poets: 

Sarah Mnatzaganian, Slow Movement (2023)

https://sarahmnatzaganian.co.uk

Clare Best, End of Season (2021)

https://clarebest.co.uk

Photographs will be taken by Ron Davies

http://farm8.clik.com/rdphoto/

Sarah Mnatzaganian is an Anglo-Armenian poet. Her debut, Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter, won the Saboteur Best Poetry Pamphlet Award in 2022. Her work has featured extensively online and in journals such as PN Review, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, The North, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry Salzburg Review. Sarah was awarded first prize in the 2021 Spelt Poetry Competition. 

Clare Best has published three full collections of poetry, several pamphlets and collaborative works and a ground-breaking prose memoir, The Missing List (Linen Press 2018). Her new collection is Beyond the Gate (Worple Press 2023). In 2020-21 Clare held a Fellowship at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She teaches Creative Writing for The Open University and is a Tutor for The Arvon Foundation. She lives in East Suffolk, between Tunstall Forest and the coast. https://clarebest.co.uk

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Open Eye Gallery, 19 Mann Island, Liverpool, United Kingdom