 Join Beehive Poets for our first 2025
meeting of the year, at 7PM on Friday 3rd January in
Bradford City Library.
We are absolutely delighted to have a guest appearance by
the great Ian Duhig, supported by a reading from the group's very own
Bruce Barnes.
Ian Duhig FRSL became a full-time writer after working
with homeless people for fifteen years. He has since then published
nine collections of poetry, held fellowships including at Trinity
College Dublin, won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National
Poetry Competition twice and his New and Selected Poems was awarded the
2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. A Cholmondeley Award recipient,
Duhig has worked on a wide range of collaborations ranging from
Pre-Baroque music to jazz-rock, film and visual art to social projects
including with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and Refugee Action
Bradford. His new book, ‘An Arbitrary Light Bulb’, is the Poetry Book
Society 2024 Winter Choice.
Bruce Barnes has migrated from the Irish Republic, to
Leeds, to London, and then in 1996 to Bradford. A previous winner of
the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Prize and the Torriano Poetry
Competition,his poems have appeared in Pennine Platform, Strix, London
Grip, The Rialto, and Poetry Wales. In 2003 The Utistugu Press
published the collection ‘Somewhere Else’, and in 2016 he collaborated
with the artist Jun Shirasu on an interpretation of the poems of the
Japanese socialist poet and journalist Kosuke Shirasu. In 2016 Otley
Word Feast published his poetry travelogue ‘Israel-Palestine’. He has
an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University.
Free. All welcome.
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