26/05/2016 19:30 – 22:30 POETRY ISLAND FTR – HANNAH M. TEASDALE

Special Guest: Hannah M. Teasdale

HANNAH M. TEASDALE:
I’ve been a writer since I could hold a pencil; short stories, flash fiction, theatre scripts and radio plays but my first and only true love has always been the Poem. Nothing can come close to the intense, raw and naked jewel that it is.
I write for myself. I write to make sense of everything inside me and around me – from the last phone-call made to an ex-lover to the meaning behind the graffiti on the back of a pub toilet door! I write because I often feel I have no choice; that I would go insane if I didn’t.
My first pamphlet collection, ‘Fingerprints’ was published last year by Poetry Space Ltd (I donate all profits from the sale of this collection to the Women’s charity, Missing Link) – available from Poetry Space and Amazon and primarily reflects upon childhood and teenage angst!
My full collection, LAID BARE is being published by Burning Eye Books and will be in print in March 2016. It maps the emotional hurricane of a twelve-month period of adultery, divorce and grief.
I have won poetry slams around the country and headline regularly nationwide at poetry events and festivals.

Reviews:
‘Moving and exceptionally clear images that I shall enjoy revisiting. …Vivid and visceral poems give us images we resonate with… This focus takes us to the heart of her compassionate clarity and witty reflections amid the emotional turmoil of a life well lived’
Morag Kiziewicz

(her poetry is) uncomfortable, heartbreaking, enchanting and strangely intimate. I was embarrassed to catch her eye, as though I watching someone naked whilst I was fully dressed.
R. Misani

Doors open 7.30pm Show starts 8:00pm Tickets £6.00 – reserve your seat by contacting Ian via email: ianbeechpoetry@btinternet.com

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