'Black Eyes' is pleased to announce the online (via Zoom) launch of Chloë Jacquet's new poetry book, 'Take It By The Line'.
The Event will be co-hosted by Chloë & Josephine Lay.
As well as readings from Chloë, there will be feature sets from Melanie Branton & Jonny Fluffypunk, plus some limited open-mic slots
For an open-mic slot please email blackeyespublishinguk@yahoo.co.uk

Pre-order your signed copy from, www.chloejpoetry.com

ZOOM:
Topic: 'TAKE IT BY THE LINE' Online Book Launch
Time: September 22, 2020 07:30 PM London

Link will be posted prior to event.

CHLOE JACQUET is a multi-slam winning, multicultural, multifaceted spoken word artist based in Gloucestershire. She was 2017 Oxford Hammer & Tongue slam champion and reached the semi-finals of the National Slam Finals at the Royal Albert Hall in both 2018 and 2019.
With a preference for straight talking and a penchant for rhymes and opinions, Chloë’s poetry is both entertaining and accessible. Her work deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from workplace discrimination and mental health, to the pressures placed on modern men, via her short-term relationship with a biscuit.
Chloë thinks name dropping is really uncool. She has supported artists such as Elvis McGonagall and Hollie McNish.
This her first collection is published by 'Black Eyes'.

MELANIE BRANTON writes and performs poetry. Her first collection of poetry, My Cloth-Eared Heart (2017) is published by Oversteps Books. Her second, Can You See Where I’m Coming From?, was published by Burning Eye in late 2018.
Her poems have been published in a number of print and online journals, including Algebra of Owls, Amaryllis, Atrium, Bare Fiction, Clear Poetry, Clockwise Cat, The Frogmore Papers, The High Window, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Light, Lighten Up Online, Message In A Bottle, Monkey Kettle, Obsessed With Pipework, Prole, Snakeskin, South, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, and The Spectator.
She has performed at WOMAD, the Bristol Harbour Festival and at spoken word and poetry nights all over the UK. Her full-length poetry show (confusingly also called My Cloth-Eared Heart) has been showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe, Wolves Lit Fest and the Barnstaple Fringe.
She came second in the Bristol Poetry Festival Slam in 2014 and 2017 and represented Bristol at the Hammer and Tongue 2016 and the Superheroes of Slam 2017 national finals.

JONNY FLUFFYPUNK is an economic refugee from the London hinterland, Jonny speaks words out loud that fuse bittersweet autobiography, threadbare philosophy and surreal whimsy in an act which has established him as a firm favourite at gigs, festivals, arts centres and housing benefit offices up and down the country.

JOSEPHINE LAY is a published author and poet; her most recent poetry collection is ‘Unravelling’ 2019. She is editor for Black Eyes Publishing UK and heads the Gloucestershire Poetry Society.
Josephine is host at the monthly poetry event ‘Squawkers’ in Cheltenham but currently hosts ‘Crafty Crows’ the GPS monthly Zoom poetry event.
Josephine enjoys hosting and planning events, such as the GPS ‘Raised Voices’ (a celebration of International Women’s Day) held in the fabulous St Mary De Crypt space, in Gloucester, in Feb 2020.
Josephine appreciates both page poetry and performance poetry and attempts to ‘straddle’ the divide, preferring to see all forms of poetry in terms of a poetical range or spectrum.
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