Join Beehive Poets for our first 2025 meeting of the year, at 7PM on Friday 3rd January in Bradford City Library. We are absolutely delighted to have a guest appearance by the great Ian Duhig, supported by a reading from the group's very own Bruce Barnes.
Ian Duhig FRSL became a full-time writer after working with homeless people for fifteen years. He has since then published nine collections of poetry, held fellowships including at Trinity College Dublin, won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and his New and Selected Poems was awarded the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. A Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has worked on a wide range of collaborations ranging from Pre-Baroque music to jazz-rock, film and visual art to social projects including with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and Refugee Action Bradford. His new book, ‘An Arbitrary Light Bulb’, is the Poetry Book Society 2024 Winter Choice.
Bruce Barnes has migrated from the Irish Republic, to Leeds, to London, and then in 1996 to Bradford. A previous winner of the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Prize and the Torriano Poetry Competition,his poems have appeared in Pennine Platform, Strix, London Grip, The Rialto, and Poetry Wales. In 2003 The Utistugu Press published the collection ‘Somewhere Else’, and in 2016 he collaborated with the artist Jun Shirasu on an interpretation of the poems of the Japanese socialist poet and journalist Kosuke Shirasu. In 2016 Otley Word Feast published his poetry travelogue ‘Israel-Palestine’. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University.
Having worked with the poetry events groups Blue Nose Poets and Beehive Poets, he believes that the poet, reading to an audience, recreates their poem for that moment in time.
We look forward to seeing you there to welcome in 2025 and Bradford's year as Capital of Culture!
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