Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press

Join us for the launch of two new poetry books The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun by Linda Kemp (Research Fellow at NTU) and State Honey by Andrew Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at NTU), both published by Leafe Press.Complimentary coffee and pastries will be available. Leafe Press will present a dedicated stall featuring poetry books from their own publishing catalogue. This event is also an opportunity to catch Bonington Gallerys exhibitions by Naeem Mohaiemen and John Dean which conclude on the same day.Linda Kemp
Linda Kemps poetry books are: The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun (Leafe Press, 2025), Annunciation Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), Stitch (Contraband, 2020), and Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016).Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor has published four collections of poetry with Shearsman Books. He's published a collection and two pamphlets with Leafe Press. He's written critical books on the poets Adrian Henri and Peter Finch.Leafe Press
Leafe Press [https://www.leafepress.org/] was launched 26 years ago at a reading in Nottingham Central library. Leafe Press has published two pamphlets by Lee Harwood who has now gone on to have a monumental Collected and is regarded as a major figure in 1960s and 70s poetry. Leafe has published several debut collections, including Carrie Etter's debut UK collection, Whether . Carrie is now widely known and published by major publishers. The press has always had an interest in translation and in 2007 published a sequence (in English and French) by the Moroccan poet and dissident Abdellatif Laabi. This was the first UK publication by this major figure who is now published by Carcanet and received the Prix Goncourt, France's biggest literary honour. Alongside that, the press has brought out work by significant poets of the British Poetry Revival, notably Geraldine Monk, Kelvin Corcoran and Frances Presley.