The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue

Launch of a new collection of poetry by Maria Jastrzebska

 

Thursday 1 November, 7pm for 7.30pm start
Latest Music Bar
14 - 17 Manchester Street
Brighton BN2 1TF
FREE

You are warmly invited:
With a little Country and some Latin from Brighton’s best loved, one and only Qukulele band Maria Jastrzębska launches her new collection The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue (Liquorice Fish/Cinnamon Press)

Free entry, pay bar, books for sale (cash only) and a free choc brownie for those wearing cowboy/girl hats…
   
See you there!

For any of you too far to travel to Brighton The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue is now available to buy here.


Poet, editor and translator, Maria Jastrzębska was born in Warsaw, Poland and came to England as a child. She is the co-founder of Queer Writing South and South Pole and co-edited Queer in Brighton (New Writing South 2014) with Anthony Luvera. Her poetry features in the British Library project Poetry Between Two Worlds and her drama Dementia Diaries toured nationally to sell-out audiences with Lewes Live Literature. Her poetry collections include Syrena (Redbeck Press, 2004), I’ll Be Back Before You Know It (Pighog Press 2009), Everyday Angels (Waterloo Press, 2009), and At the Library of Memories (Waterloo Press, 2013).
Cedry z Walpole Park – The Cedars of Walpole Park, a selection of her poems translated into Polish by Anna Błasiak, Wioletta Grzegorzewska and Paweł Gawroński was published in a bilingual collection by K.I.T, Stowarzyszenie Żywych Poetów in their series Faktoria (Poland 2015). Her translations of Justyna Bargielska’s selected poems The Great Plan B were published by Smokestack Press in November 2017.








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