Julian Stannard will be reading from his forthcoming collection Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother, and will be joined by award winning poet Peter Robinson at October Books in Portswood, Southampton, on September 30th.
A member of the October Books team said “Julian’s last event with us, for his excellent collection Heat Wave, is one still discussed in the shop some three years later. His latest venture is not to be missed!”
Julian said: “My last book, Heat Wave, was launched by zoom with October Books three years ago. It’s a real pleasure to launch Please Don’t Bomb The Ghost of My Brother in person in my favourite bookshop! This is my ninth collection and I will be very happy to answer questions about the book and I am delighted to share the occasion with my friend and fellow poet Peter Robinson who will also be reading. When I’m not writing poems in Southampton I teach Creative Writing at the University of Winchester.”
Peter Robinson is poetry editor for Two Rivers Press and The Fortnightly Review. The author of aphorisms, a collection of stories, two novels, and various volumes of literary criticism, he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize and the John Florio Prize, as well as two Poetry Book Society Recommendations for some of his collections of poetry and translation, mainly from the Italian. His Collected Poems 1976-2016 was published by Shearsman Books in 2017, and the same firm has recently released The Personal Art: Essays, Reviews & Memoirs (2021), Reports after the Fire: Selected Poems of Pietro De Marchi (2022), and the collection of essays, Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work ed. Tom Phillips (2021). His most recent collection of poetry is Retrieved Attachments (Two Rivers Press, 2023).
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