Join us for a live podcast recording with award-winning poet Rose Condo and Director of the National Poetry Centre Nick Barley.
Have a Kind Word With Yourself is a podcast that explores how we can keep kind, creative and connected. Now in Season 2, in this podcast series host Rose Condo speaks with fellow creatives about their work and some of the things that help to keep them well along the way. In every episode she uses the letters in the word KIND to frame her conversations.
For this live recording, Rose will speak with Nick Barley, Director of the National Poetry Centre. The event will include a Q&A with the audience.
Rose Condo is an award-winning Canadian performance poet. Based in Manchester, she has performed throughout the UK and internationally. She runs workshops for people of all ages, exploring wellbeing through creative writing. Her poetry and her solo shows have been published by Flapjack Press.
www.rosecondo.net @rose_condo_poet
Nick Barley is the founding Director of the National Poetry Centre in Leeds – a new organisation to support and champion poetry across the UK. He is also a Professor in Practice at Durham University, working on Readerbank – a multidisciplinary research project into reading and the imagination. He was Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival from 2009-2023 and a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation from 2018-2024. He was a judge of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and was the chair of the judges for the 2017 International Booker Prize.
Saturday 16 May
4pm-5pm
Amped, 29 Zetland Street, HD1 2RA
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