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JUN 27

Post Atomic Glossaries: Poetry launch

27 June 2024, London

Peace Poet Antony Owen joins us in the Friends House Library for the launch of his latest compilation Post Atomic Glossaries. We will hear from Antony and explore the intersections between poetry and peace work.

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Antony Owen is a writer from Coventry with an avid interest in the psychological and physical affects of conflict. In World War II his grandmother was forcibly displaced with her children following the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry. As a child/adolescent growing up in the 1980's where nuclear war tensions were high and weapons were proliferated to nearly four times what they are today (55,000 nuclear weapons) this had a profound affect on his interest in modern conflicts. Since 2009 Owen has had nine volumes of poetry published by many presses internationally and his work is widely translated. His 2017 book The Nagasaki Elder (VPress) was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry and he was also a winner of the Museum of Military Medicine Poetry Award in 2018. He has met survivors in Hiroshima, Dresden and Coventry and has a passion for peace education and the role poetry and arts has to play in raising awareness of the consequences that conflict has on people in both the immediate and longer term.

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Date & time

Start: 18:00 on 27 June 2024

Finish: 20:00 on 27 June 2024

Location

Friends House
173 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BJ
United Kingdom

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