My Invertebrate Afternoon - poetry reading

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Join poet Simon Zonenblick for My Invertebrate Afternoon, a celebration of all things creepy and crawly! The event launches Simon's full-length poetry collection, An Invertebrate Fable (Brambleby Books 2022), a collection featuring ten sequences of poems together with full colour photographs,  as the centre piece of an afternoon of poetry and prose. 

Taking in a wide cast of characters, from butterflies, dragonflies and beetles, to slugs and snails, slowly marching millipedes and scuttling centipedes, Simon's poems traverse the English countryside, its hedges and roads sides, woodlands, grasslands, dunes, ponds and rivers, as well as more domesticated or urban habitats, in search and in praise of these slippery creatures.   Simon will also be reading from his earlier pamphlet, Little Creatures and sundry other poems, published and unpublished, on invertebrate themes, as well as poems and pieces by authors past…