Three new poets to share work at language club

THREE Devon poets will be introduced to Britain's Ocean City at the next Plymouth Language Club - and one of the city's key writers will wave goodbye.

- WILLIAM TELFORD

Charles Hadfield, Philip Ruthen and Maggie Sullivan will be travelling to Plymouth for the event on Friday, July 12, at Rockets and Rascals, on the Barbican, from 6.45pm.

They will be joined on the bill by the Language Club's own Norman Jope, officially launching his latest collection Lands of Lost Content, and another Plymouth stalwart: Matthew Carbery, who is soon to leave Plymouth and will be giving a farewell musical performance.

Matthew is a poet, author, musician, teacher and magazine editor whose critical book Phenomenology and The Late Twentieth Century American Long Poem was published in 2019.

His poetry has been published in Tears in the Fence, Blackbox Manifold, Dead King magazine and Clutter amongst others.

Norman said: "Matthew will be providing the music again on this occasion. He's shortly to leave Plymouth for a new job on Merseyside, although not, as far as we know. as a football manager."