Tuesday 3 June 2014

Tom Pickard launches hoyoot at Newcastle Lit and Phil


Tom Pickard - hoyoot at the Lit and Phil

Tom Pickard's hoyoot: Collected Poems and Songs, published by Carcanet, will be launched at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle from 7pm on the 26th June with a reading by Tom Pickard. The event, introduced by poet and critic Terry Kelly, is free and everyone is welcome.
Cover of Hoyoot by Tom Pickard
"His ear for rhythm is exceedingly delicate, his syntax strong and terse, and his vocabulary free of fancy work. He seems able to select at will the detail which creates a whole scene or action." - Basil Bunting

For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space. His pen ‘demands / complete autonomy’, and finds it as it explores both harsh and lyrical realities with a northern working-class sensibility. A lifelong counter-cultural figure, Pickard transcends formal and thematic barriers with a lightness of touch that is informed both by anger and by love.

Tom Pickard was born in 1946 in Newcastle. He became friends with the poet Basil Bunting and encouraged his return to writing. In 1963, Pickard founded the Morden Tower readings with international poets such as Allen Ginsberg. Pickard moved to London in 1973 and started writing radio and documentary scripts. His publications include High on the Walls (1968) and Ballad of Jamie Allan (2007), which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.

To order a copy of hoyoot visit the Carcanet website: 
http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847772541

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