Jill Abram presents Stablemates: Conversation and poetry with Henry Normal, Rosie Garland and Jackie Hagan of Flapjack Press.

Jill Abram presents Stablemates: Conversation and poetry with Henry Normal, Rosie Garland and Jackie Hagan of Flapjack Press.

Readings start promptly at 7pm

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over 20 years. In the meanwhile he was making comedy for TV and film, including The Royle Family, Mighty Boosh, Gavin & Stacey and the Oscar-nominated Philomena. Earlier this year he was honoured with a BAFTA Special Award but Henry has retired from all that and returned to his first love – poetry!

Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. She also performs twisted cabaret as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. She was described by Apples and Snakes as one of the country’s finest performance poets. As In Judy is her sixth poetry collection and goes behind the scenes in her life and mind.

Jackie Hagan’s first solo show Some People Have Too Many Legs, written while she was in hospital having her leg lopped off, won the Saboteur award for Best Spoken Word Show. Her second, Jumble Soul, is about to premier at Contact Theatre, Manchester. She is one of three inaugural Jerwood Compton Fellows for making a significant contribution to the poetry community.

Flapjack Press explores the synergy between performance and the page.

Stablemates is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England