Pighog Poetry Launches at Metrodeco Tea Shop, May 22 & 24

Pighog Poetry launches at the Metrodeco tea shop Tuesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 24. See below for program details.

Tuesday 22 May - Hallucinated Horse: New Latin American Poets

Hallucinated Horse is a bilingual sampler of cutting-edge poetry by young poets from across Spanish-speaking America. Featuring a compelling line-up of fat mums, obsessive adolescents, ex-revolutionaries, drugged-up horses and synthetic flowers, Hallucinated Horse was compiled and translated by the brilliant Puerto Rican poet Nicole Delgado and Pighog's Assistant Editor Tom Slingsby, who will be reading from this exciting new volume at Metrodeco on Tuesday 22 May. Free entry

Thursday 24 May - Robert Walton's Debut Pamphlet
Robert Walton will launch his pamphlet Waiting for the Wave in the Pighog Passport Series. Robert, who now lives in Bristol, was a member of the Sussex poetry collective Footwork. Alongside Robert, Irish poet Mary Noonan will be launching her new collection The Fado House, from Dedalus Press which was awarded the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Prize in 2010. Both at Metrodeco on Thursday 24 May. Tickets £10 / £8 concs

Metrodeco is located at 38 Upper St James's Street, Brighton, BN2 1JN. Doors 5.30 for 6.00pm on both nights. Running time is approximately 1 hour each.

For further information, visit www.pighog.co.uk.