POETRY CLUB
KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF &
RICHARD SCOTT
POETRY CLUB:
KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF & RICHARD SCOTT
22nd May
Running Time:
MARIO BANUSHI
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KAREN MCCARTHY WOOLF
Karen McCarthy Woolf was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. She was born in London to English and Jamaican parents. Karen’s radio credits include Night Shift, a reworking of Homer’s Odyssey for R4 Book of the Week; Miss Birdie’s Letter, a music/poetry travelogue for R3 Between the Ears; and a collaborative adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando which was a BBC Drama of the Week. She is currently working at the Promise Institute for International Human Rights Law as a Fulbright Scholar, co-presenting R4’s Poetry Please, lecturing in China and collaborating with various techno music producers for events across London. Top Doll is her debut novel
TOP DOLL
''Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound. '' Bernardine Evaristo
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, at least one Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few--in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
RICHARD SCOTT
“With his electric Soho, Richard Scott has arrived like a lightning bolt in our midst. In poetry that moves so fast we ' re left breathless, this is protean, irreverent, urgent work.” Sinéad Morrissey, T. S. Eliot Prize judge
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His debut collection Soho was shortlisted for The TS Eliot Prize, The Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and The Polari First Book Prize among other awards He is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
THAT BROKE INTO SHINING CRYSTALS
“Richard Scott's Soho is the most gripping portrayal of queer lives I've read so far ” Daljit Nagra, Guardian
Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.
Trauma and vulnerability - violation and its aftershock - are explored within a framework of self-determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott's second collection. In three distinct yet interlocking parts, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still-life paintings, controlled arrangements in which time is frozen. In 'Coy', the lexicon of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' is repurposed to enact the collapse of language under the strain of description, punctuated by scalding direct statement In the luminous title sequence, crystals and gemstones evoke themes of fracture and fixative, demonstrating Scott's power as a poet who casts an uncompromising but ultimately uplifting light.
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