Peel Street Poetry | Andrew Barker Book Launch

A special night, as it's a book launch for one of our longest-running stalwarts, Andrew Barker. Time permitting, this will then be followed by an open-mic as usual!

It is the third book of his ongoing poetry collections, titled Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets 204 – 305,

The first two books in the collection Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets, (2016), and Orange Peel: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets 102 - 203, (2021), will be introduced too.

All the collections are named from the bars in Hong Kong where the poems were first performed.

From the blurb:
The poems contained in this third collection are cumulatively more personal, more specifically politically motivated, more revelatory of the time in which they were written and the thoughts and character of the one who constructed them than those preceding. The historically chronological Lockdown Sonnets address the dislocation of the Covid Period as experienced by the author, and his immediate family – a situation that may or may not connect to others’ experience of that time – and many poems deal with the world-wide whirligig of truth and reality being presented as options where even satirical mockery of the situation has become hard to recognize as such.

Free entry and 2-4-1 drinks until 9pm!