Liz Berry with Ruth Angell
Followed by in-conversation hosted by Kim Moore
Saturday 21st June 7.30pm - Tickets £12/10
Liz Berry is an award-winning poet and author of the critically acclaimed collections Black Country (Chatto, 2014); The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018); The Dereliction (Hercules Editions, 2021); and most recently The Home Child (Chatto, 2023), a novel in verse.
Liz’s work, described as “a sooty soaring hymn to her native West Midlands” (Guardian), celebrates the landscape, history and dialect of the region. Liz has received the Somerset Maugham Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Writers' Prize and two Forward Prizes. Her poem ‘Homing’, a love poem for the language of the Black Country, is part of the GCSE English syllabus.
Ruth Angell is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who has performed with artists including Ashley Hutchings and Rufus Wainwright. In 2023 she released her début solo album, Hlywing. Ruth's score for The Home Child weaves traditional fiddle music with exquisite original violin and harmonium compositions.
Kim Moore’s first poetry collection The Art of Falling(Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection.