Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 13th April 2023, featuring Sue Roe (prose), Christopher Horton (poetry) and Matt Birch (hybrid).
This will be a LIVE event at the John Harvey Tavern in Lewes (upstairs room): doors 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
Tickets £5 (£3 students/unwaged and claiming benefit) available on the door.
Books will be for sale on the night (cash only please).
Sue Roe
Sue Roe’s first published book was a novel, Estella, Her Expectations, after which she turned her attention to non-fiction – a critical book on Virginia Woolf, followed by her Penguin Modern Classics edition of Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room. She has published four biographies of artists: Gwen John: A Life (Chatto); and The Private Lives of the Impressionists (also published in the UK by Chatto, and in nine other countries). Her next two books were published by Penguin – both were read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the week – In Montparnasse; and In Montmartre, which made both the Sunday Times and the New York Times best seller lists. While pursuing her career as a biographer (her forthcoming book is a biography), Sue has also published two poetry pamphlets, The Spitfire Factory and The Magpie; and she has recently completed a novel.
Christopher Horton
Christopher Horton’s poems have appeared in The Spectator, The North, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Ambit, Iota, Magma, Stand, and in anthologies with Penned in the Margins, Broken Sleep Books, tall-lighthouse and Days of Roses. He was a prize winner in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. He won first prize in the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition in 2021 and had another poem highly commended in the same year of the competition. He was also commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition twice, Highly Commended in the Walter Swan Award and shortlisted for the Canterbury Festival Poetry of the Year Competition. He has written poetry reviews for the London Magazine and Poetry London. His pamphlet, Perfect Timing, was released by tall-lighthouse press in 2021.
Matt Birch
Matt Birch has run Skylark, a small bookshop and gallery in The Needlemakers, since 2006. In creative terms, he has had two exhibitions of his photography, in IO, Brighton and The Foundry Gallery, Lewes. He is also a songwriter and keyboardist with the band IBEX. He will read from Meridian: A Walk From Sussex to Yorkshire, his first book, published by The Frogmore Press. In July 2021, he set out to walk along the Greenwich Meridian, a route determined by an abstract concept rather than natural features and completed in stages over four seasons. Reflecting the rhythm of a long walk, his colour photographs of the Weald, London, the Fens and Lincolnshire Wolds, are matched with short pieces of writing: writing that meanders through history, politics, nature, literature, music, etymology, prose and poetry. A personal and whimsical exploration of the places encountered between two little-known coastal towns.
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