Events coming up at Saul Hay Gallery

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​Join us on Thursday 19th March from 6.30pm for this special poetry reading event. Out Four Poets will be introduced by fellow poet Ian Sople.

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Chad Campbell is the author of two books of poetry: Nectarine (Signal Editions, 2021), and Laws & Locks (Signal Editions, 2015), and the pamphlet, Euphonia (Anstruther Press, 2017). His poetry has been published and anthologized in North America and the UK, most recently in Carcanet New Poetries VIII. Chad was born in Waterloo, earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Manchester. He currently lives in Halifax, UK, where he is the co-lead of Creative Writing at the University of Leeds’ Lifelong Learning Centre. His third collection, Cold Country, is due out in 2027.

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Patrick Wright’s poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Wales, The North, and The London Magazine. His debut poetry collection, Full Sight of Her, was published by Eyewear (2020). His second collection, Exit Strategy, was published by Broken Sleep (2025). He is also the author of a pamphlet, Nullaby (Eyewear, 2017). His poems have twice been
nominated for the Bridport Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is an Associate Lecturer and Honorary Associate at the Open University, teaching English Literature and Creative Writing, and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Patrick was born and lives in Manchester.

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Simon Haworth is a poet based in Manchester where he has worked as a tutor and lecturer in Adult & Continuing Education as well as in Higher Education, teaching a range of courses in Poetry & Creative Writing, History of Music, Art History and Comparative Mythology. He received a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester after previously studying Classics and then pursuing editorial and journalistic work. His poems and reviews have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals in the UK, Ireland and the United States. He is presently putting together a first collection of poetry.

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Steve Kendall has a strong record of magazine publication, and his work has appeared widely – in Rialto, Magma, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog and 14, for example. He is a highly engaging performer of his own work. Following a successful career, working to widen access to higher education in the UK, Steve is now completing a PhD at Newcastle University,
researching the impact of the Morden Tower poetry reading series. He is developing a poetry collection, entitled Seventeen Towers and Seven Gates, structured around the towers, gates and bridges of Newcastle’s Town Walls and historic defences.

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Ian Pople's Spillway: New and Selected Poems is published by Carcanet.