Black Eyes Publishing UK is pleased to announce the online (via Zoom) launch of Derek Dohren's Second Poetry Collection, 'Wasp in My Cockpit'. The event will be hosted by Josephine Lay of 'Black Eyes', with feature readings from invited guests, Z D Dicks & Suz Winspear, and a limited open-mic.
This is a Ticketed Event, get your free ticket here, https://helmtickets.com/events/6638/derek-dohrens-wasp-in-my-cockpit-poetry-collection-launch
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Pre-order signed copies of 'Wasp in My Cockpit' from, https://www.derekdohren.com/apps/webstore/
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Z D Dicks holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. He often works with other poets locally and nationally to create events and to work on poetry projects.
In 2016 he founded the Gloucestershire Poetry Society and the Gloucester Poetry Festival. He is the current Gloucestershire Poet Laureate and still runs the Gloucester Poetry Festival.
He has had his work accepted by many publications including Sarasvati, Obsessed with Pipework, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Words from the Wild, Outlaw Poetry, Fresh Air Poetry, I am not a silent poet, As it Ought to Be, Nymphs, Dreich Ink, Sweat & Tears and Stride (plus many more).
He currently has three collections ‘Malcontent’ and ‘Intimate Nature’ with Black Eyes publishing UK (2019) and ‘Vexed’ with Hedgehog Poetry Press (2020).
Helen Ivory described his work as ‘muscular language’ and was himself delineated as ‘a gothic Seamus Heaney’ by Anna Saunders.
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Poet, writer and performer, Suz Winspear works in a Victorian museum, lives in a disused church, and loves the darker side of things. She was Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2016-17, and her collection 'The Awkward People ' was published in 2017.
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Derek Dohren has been performing his poetry on the spoken word circuit in England’s south-west since October 2017. He has been described as “quirky and surreal”; as “a shark basking in a sea of words”; and as a poet who enjoys rooting out “affectation and pomposity”. More prosaically he is a bus driver, the latest profession from which he draws artistic inspiration.
His first poetry collection, ‘Everything Rhymes with Orange’
was published by Black Eyes Publishing UK in July 2019.
His authorised biography of former Liverpool FC player and manager Roy Evans, 'Ghost on the Wall' was published by Mainstream Publishing in 2004.
His semi-autobiographical account of a broken life being rebuilt in the charming shadow of Granada’s Alhambra Palace, beautifully illustrated by artist Natasha Phillips, 'The Cats on the River Darro' was published in 2012.
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