Salford’s Working Class Movement Library has great treat for you to while away a cold and gloomy old January evening
On Thursday 14 January at 7.30pm they invite you to join from the comfort of your settee poet Oliver James Lomax for a New Year feast of delicacies as he reads for us poems from his new collection, The Dandelion Clock.
They first met Oliver when he came and sat in their reading room and read the first hand accounts of the Peterloo Massacre that we hold in our precious collection.
The result was this poem, which they found so extraordinary that they have reproduced it on the anniversary of Peterloo every year since.
Since then Oliver has become a great friend to the Library, including reading on our hall stairs for us as part of the evening opening for Museums at Night. He even helped them put together the Bones of Paine skeleton for its first outing on the day of the 200th anniversary of Peterloo, getting himself thoroughly drenched in the process. And out of that experience came another magnificent poem – The Bones of Thomas Paine.
This event is free but Oliver has kindly suggested that participants might want to send the Library a donation… Find out more about Oliver and his work at https://oliverjameslomax.
This event will be live-streamed – details to follow.
