WORD WEAVERS
Friday 5th May: 7.30pm – Poetry and Music
This is the sixth Word Weavers event and their fabulous combination of poetry and music has attracted an expanding group of admiring followers.
Enjoy inspirational, entertaining words from award-winning poet Andrew Rudd, punctuated with musical interludes from virtuoso violinist Daniel Axworthy.
Joining Andrew and Daniel will be guest poet Sarah-Clare Conlon.
Andrew Rudd is a former Cheshire Poet Laureate and has twice won the Cheshire Prize for Literature. A Frodsham resident and former creative writing tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University, he has published poetry collections including Nowhere Else but Here (2012), One Cloud Away from the Sky (2007) and his lockdown project of woodland poems Hob Hey (2022). He is currently Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Cathedral.
Daniel Axworthy is a versatile, sensitive violinist, who is equally at home wowing audiences on the classical concert platform, on stage with bands and in the recording studio producing commercial and movie sound tracks. He also boasts another string to his bowing arm – Daniel has just won two gold medals at the World Arm-Wrestling Championship!
Sarah-Clare Conlon has poetry pamphlets with Contraband (cache-cache, a Poetry Book Society Selection) and Invisible Hand (Using Language, described as “sonic joy” by Helen Mort and “scintillating” by Philip Terry), and a prose collection, Marine Drive, with Broken Sleep.
Apprentice Poet in Residence for Ilkley Literature Festival 2022, she was inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Manchester’s Victoria Baths 2019-21 and Saul Hay Gallery in 2023.
Place: Frodsham Community Centre. Licensed bar.
Time: Friday 5th May, 7.30pm
Tickets: £10.00
Daniel Axworthy and Andrew Rudd
