FREE EVENT! WINE AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE LAUNCH OF

ALL THAT LIVES, ‘CSI’ Poetry by Valerie Laws

6TH SEPTEMBER, 6pm, BLACKWELL’S, NEWCASTLE HAYMARKET

· Tenth book, third poetry collection from award-winning UK poet. Sex, death, & pathology poems.

· Science-informed poetry, some exhibited as AV poetry installations in London (Guardian Guide Pick of the Week) and Newcastle exhibitions.

· Already gained Wellcome Trust Arts Award, Northern Writers Award, prizes in National Poetry, Mslexia & Hippocrates competitions.

· ‘Laws’s images are vivid and the language rattles and sparks. … she chooses her subjects carefully, seeking the intense and the pregnant within them and offering the reader something of the ‘real’ experience they contain.’ Poetry Review

‘A poet brings a new vocabulary to pathological realities.’ BMJ