Words and Ears – 26th January
Ruth will be reading her poetry at Words and Ears at The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon on Thursday 26th January. More details at www.dawngorman.co.uk
Manchester Review: Ian Pople reviews Scarlet Tiger
Ian Pople Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger (Templar Poetry, £10) Ruth Sharman’s Scarlet Tiger comes some time after her first collection, Birth of the Owl Butterflies; its title poem a second place winner in the Arvon Poetry Competition. In this book too, there are poems about butterflies and Sharman’s father. Indeed the interest in, near obsession with, butterflies is [...]
Templar Poetry Live: Ruth Sharman and Michael Brown
Tuesday 22 November sees the London launch of Ruth Sharman's Scarlet Tiger at Keats House in Hampstead. Admission is free for this Templar Poetry Live event. Ruth will be reading poems from Scarlet Tiger and Michael Brown will read from his pamphlet, Locations for a Soul. For more details and to register, click here.
Local Launch for Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman at Topping and Company in Bath
On Wednesday evening, 16th November, at Topping and Company, Bath, Ruth Sharman will be reading from her second full length collection of poems, Scarlet Tiger, published by Templar Poetry.Doors open at 7.45 p.m.Click here for more details.
Derwent Poetry Festival
Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman, published by Templar Poetry, will be launched at the Derwent Poetry Festival, 4th - 6th November 2016, at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.Ruth will be reading poems from the collection on Saturday 5th November at 5.15 p.m.
Templar Poetry Straid Award 2016
Templar Poetry have announced that Ruth Sharman is the winner of this year's Straid Award for a full collection of poetry. 'We are delighted to announce that Ruth Sharman is the winner of this year's Straid Award for a full collection of poetry. Her first full-length collection was published by Picador, and the title poem 'Birth [...]
Angle Issue 8
Angle Issue 8 features two new poems by Ruth Sharman: Morphine and Pyramidal Orchids. You can read more and download Angle here anglepoetry.co.uk/current-issue/
Interlitq
The current issue of The International Literary Quarterly, the on-line literary magazine, features two poems by Ruth Sharman. interlitq.org
Borderlands
In Borderlands, a short film by Jesse Lawrence, Ruth Sharman walks to an unassuming Neolithic Long Barrow, on the way revealing the themes that inform her work. Watch the film on Vimeo here
The Birth Of The Owl Butterflies
The Birth Of The Owl Butterflies They hung in our kitchen for days, a row of brown lanterns that threw no light, merely darkened with their growing load. Pinned to a shelf among the knick-knacks and the cookery books; ripening in the radiator’s heat: six Central American Caligo chrysalids, five thousand miles from their [...]