Poetry with Roy Marshall and Tony Challis
Monday, 19th June, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
At Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2D
Book tickets via Five Leaves: Poetry with Roy Marshall, supported by Tony Challis – Five Leaves Bookshop
Roy Marshall wanted to be a writer as a child and young man but became distracted for about twenty years during which time he found himself variously employed as a delivery driver, gardener and coronary care nurse, amongst other occupations. Since leaving nursing he has worked in adult education, both in community and as a part time university lecturer.
Roy’s first full collection The Sun Bathers (Shoestring Press , 2013) was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy award. A second collection, The Great Animator, was published by Shoestring Press in 2017. Roy’s versions of poems by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, After Montale, were published in 2019, also Shoestring Press
Roy’s reading will be supported by Tony Challis:
Tony has had a long writing life and has been writing poetry since the 1980s. His poems have been published in various anthologies, he had a poem commended in a national poetry competition, and his prose has appeared in Late Outbursts (2014) and in Desire, Love, Identity (2019) both published by Bold Strokes. In 2018 Nottingham Writers’ Studio made him their Poet of the Year. For some years, Tony facilitated a Rainbow LGBT Writing Group in Nottingham Writers’ Studio. Tony is Chair of Nottingham Poetry Society, is keen on performing his poetry at spoken word events, and is keen to share his substantial body of poetry with the world.