2 weeks tonight we are very excited to welcome back Carson Wolfe as our guest poet!Monday April 20th 7.30-10pm
Plus open mic
Contact: [email protected]
Waterside Arts
Carson Wolfe is a Mancunian poet and Grand Prize Winner of The Disquiet Literary Program 2024. Their work has appeared with POETRY, The Rumpus, The Common, and Rattle, amongst others. In 2023, they won New Writing North’s Debut Poetry Prize, received awards from The Aurora[_ Poetry Prize, The Edward Thomas Fellowship, and were longlisted in The Poetry Society’s National Competition. Their book Coin Laundry at Midnight, is forthcoming with Button Poetry in spring 2026.
Book Description
2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest Runner-Up and Winner of The Northern Writers’ Debut Poetry Award, Carson Wolfe’s Coin Laundry at Midnight is an unfolding highway through gendered violence and queer becoming.
Seasoned with fresh and intricate language, Wolfe’s work roams the open road in search of the self—uncovering identity in the aftermath of teen parenthood and urban poverty. A British voice wanderlust in America, this gripping chapbook challenges the male road trip narrative, going so far as to resurrect Jack Kerouac, who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians.
A painting of truck headlights and motel parking lots, Coin Laundry at Midnight questions what it means to move through a world that is continuously reinforced as unsafe for women and girls.
Book links & Social Media
https://buttonpoetry.com/product/coin-laundry-at-midnight/ - US PUBLISHER
https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/coin-laundry-at-midnight/carson-wolfe/9781638341451 - UK MARKET
Social Media
Instagram: vincentvanbutch
www.carsonwolfe.co.uk
Event Venue
Waterside Arts Centre, Waterside Plaza, Sale, United Kingdom
Tickets
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