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Twenty-four poems for Advent
Reflections on endings of years and of relationships, on lives lived, on beginnings, anxieties, hopes, and an uncertain future – with a dash of humour thrown in!
Sue Vickerman will be signing copies of Adventus at
LIMESTONE BOOKS
The Shambles, Market Place, Settle
Saturday 30th November from 4pm until the Christmas lights switch-on at 5pm
A free pop-in event!
‘Adventus’ – a murder at Christmas, a slash of red dissolving in an illusion of snow; the poet a wandering Orlando figure with a tsunamic sense of insecurity
The Yorkshire Times
Jean will be launching her new collection ‘Speak to the Earth‘ at the Quaker Meeting House, Settle on Friday 8th November at 7.30.
These are searching, restless poems, haunted by both darkness and light, by how we damage the earth and how we are forever connected to it. Their yearning for what is tender within us as well as what is wild is both a surprise and a delight.
Kim Moore
Persuasive and deeply moving
The Yorkshire Times
For Jean Stevens, love, grief, elegy, longing are insuperable states of mind, as natural as the taking of measured breaths
Stevens’ relationship with landscape is existentially-charged, and in Speak to the Earth – a message of love and nourishment to the visible universe – she offers a fitting libation to a natural world which continues to give her comfort in times of retreat and contemplation.
Steve Whitaker

Suki’s manager and minder, Sue Vickerman, and Bel the photographer’s assistant, Mike Kilyon, are organising a number of events in Settle, North Yorkshire, UK in October 2019 to celebrate the culmination of the Suki Project. These events were part of the Three Peaks Arts trail.
There is much to celebrate
- Suki’s blog and all the discussions on it – sukithelifemodel.co.uk
- Suki’s autobiographical trilogy; A Small Life, Two Small Lives and True Life Nude (the latter two parts published by Naked Eye
- two poetry collections; Kunst and Thin Bones Like Wishbones
- online publication of the trilogy in serialised form
- video shorts based on each book in the trilogy
- the Life Room project; a series of video shorts of artists and art rooms where Suki has modelled
- and of course all the art work produced by the innumerable artists who have been inspired by Suki.
More information can be found on Suki’s website here.
David Pendleton is delighted to be opening series lunchtime sporting lectures at the Record Cafe, North Parade, Bradford.
Have a pint, lunch and listen to some talks about our sporting and social history.
Dave will be launching his new Naked Eye published book Kick-off and chatting about how trams helped facilitate Bradford league cricket.
Naked Eye published poet Sue Vickerman is on the big screen in City Park Bradford reading from her Indigo Dreams published collection Thin bones like wishbones . You can see her video here: https://vimeo.com/293009800 .
We are so pleased to announce that David Pendleton will be discussing Women and Sport with Philippa Velija at Ilkley Literature Festival on Sunday 7th October, and talking about his new Naked Eye book Kick-off.
Sue Vickerman (second right) and Jamie Osborn (second left) with other participants at a Poetry Translation Centre workshop in London. (They can be identified as having the similar coloured, distinctive hair!)
We hope to be publishing poetry translations by Sue and Jamie in the not too distant future.

Jean Steven talking about her poetry and people who influenced her to write, at Settle Library.
“Advent starts on 1st December and we’ve a very special treat – an exciting exhibition preview and book launch, as a famous local artist artist joins an exceptional local writer for a one off not to miss event. ‘Adventus’ will be a truly special event. Call us to book for Prosecco and stand up Buffet, ahead of the launch and reveal at 7.30pm on 1st December.” From Hettie’s website.
ADVENTUS AT HETTIE’S is a book & art exhibition launch consisting of 25 poems and 25 original artworks.
Date: Friday 1 December 2017
Time:
7.00 pm: Prosecco & stand-up hot buffet, £8.00, please book: 01756 790949
7.30 pm: Arrive 7.30 for free entry to the poetry reading (with interval to view exhibition). Drinks at the bar. Â
In this season of nostalgia, an ambient evening of listening to new poems and browsing original artworks will open with a welcoming glass of prosecco and warming winter buffet (optional; please book if you will attend from 7pm).
Artist-printmaker HELEN PEYTON heads up a group exhibition with a new series of her hallmark retro-themed prints, ‘Christmas’, which has been taken by the V&A London. Writer SUE VICKERMAN’s twenty-five poems tell of wistfulness for the past  and anxieties about the future – with a dash of humour thrown in – and serve as daily readings from 1st December. Â
Venue…
Hettie’s Cafe Bistro Limited
8 High Street
Skipton
BD23 1JZ
Telephone: 01756 790949
Email: info@hettiescafebistro.co.uk
Website: hettiescafebistro.co.uk
Sue Vickerman’s collection Adventus as been reviewed very enthusiastically and positively. The Yorkshire Times writes
Vickerman achieves a tour de force, a seamless and moving juxtaposition of messianic longing, gathering trepidation and xenophobia in parody
and
a fine body of work.
You can read the full article here.
In an article about Sue’s reading of Adventus at Settle Sessions the Yorkshire Times writes,
she is a well seasoned traveller, with a fine dispassionate eye for apparently insignificant detail, often viewed obliquely.
The full article is available here.
Exhibition & Poetry Book Launch – November 24, 2017, 7:00pm
Our country’s hankering for past times amid current turmoil and fears for the future are represented in this exhibition of Helen Peyton’s retro prints, Phil Moody’s obliquely political artworks and Sue Vickerman’s poems.
More information about this great evening here.
Sue Vickerman read from her Latest poetry collection Adventus at the recent Settle Sessions poetry night held at the Folly in Settle. Jean Stevens read from her pamphlet The Tilt set in Ghana. Winners of a poetry competition for young people held as part of the Tom Twistleton Centenary Festival also read their poems.
You can read all about this very special event here.
There is a review of the evening in the Yorkshire Times here. The reviewer wrote of Sue that,
she is a well seasoned traveller, with a fine dispassionate eye for apparently insignificant detail, often viewed obliquely.
Good poetry is often conceived in hindsight and at several geographical removes, and much of Vickerman’s is written from the perspective of distant, sharply felt, memory.
The figurative bruising remains: her measured rendition of the poem ‘The end of love’ gave visceral and emotional life to the shocking pain of relationship breakdown.
You can buy a copy of Adventus from Berlin Butike here.
True Life Nude, the third installment of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy illustrated with the work of eight Art Nude photographers is now available to read online for free.
You can read it from the beginning here.
Naked Eye will be publishing an illustrated book version in late 2017.
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Two Small Lives the second installment of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy had its UK launch in 2016.
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