Wordplay 2006

Salt Poetry Reading

With Peter Abbs and Ian Gregson

Saturday 9 September 2006

3pm (Doors open 2.55pm)

Clickimin Leisure Complex: Multi-Function Room

Admission Free


Peter Abbs has written and lectured widely on the nature of creativity and the poetics of culture. In 2004 he was Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, Arkansas. He is the Poetry Editor of Resurgence and Editor of Earth Songs. He has published six volumes of poetry including Icons of Time, Personae and Love After Sappho.

Ian Gregson has written for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and published poems and reviews in The London Review of Books, the TLS and Poetry Review, amongst others. His critical books are Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism; The Male Image: Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry; Postmodern Literature and Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction.