An Evening with Matt Black, with music from Adam White and The Only Michael.

Friday 26 September 7.45pm
£5 (£3 Concessions)
Lantern Theatre
Kenwood Park Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1NF
BOX  OFICE & INFO  LINE: 01144 225 4030

The difficulties of growing up as a unicorn in the modern world, love poems, satirical haikus from Texas and Cleethorpes, poems about snails, swimming and ageing. The poems and fiction in An Evening with Matt Black will be full of surprises, mood-changes and entertainment – serious, sharp, surreal, irritated and funny.

Guitarist Adam White performs with Matt for the love-sequence ‘Careless’ and ‘ The Story of Jonny Donut, Ice-Cream Seller’, the tragic-comic story of a young retired lighthouse-keeper building a new life in a small East Coast resort not unlike Cleethorpes or Skegness. DJ-musician The Only Michael performs with Matt for ‘ The Cooling Towers’ Farewell’, an elegy and celebration of the Tinsley Cooling Towers near Meadowhall which were demolished on August 24th this year.
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Matt Black writes poems for adults and children. His poems for adults are published in magazines such as Envoi, Fatchance, Magma, Obsessed With Pipework, Smith’s Knoll, The Interpreter’s House. He has won awards and commissions, and has toured in Germany, U.S.A., Ireland, Poland and the Czech Republic.

His poems for children are published in‘GoblinInTheFridge’(Upside Down Books) and in anthologies through Macmillan, OUP, Hodder and Stoughton and Scholastic. Of his poetic novella Plot 161 (Spout): “Matt Black’s writing is intense, detailed and deeply original, frisky and funny and sad. It is about knobbly raspberries, stiff rhubarb and sexual fantasy; a prose hymn to the difference between the real person you fancy and how you imagine them, sung from the shed at the bottom of the allotment. Brilliant.”
Ruth Padel

Of ‘Goblin In The Fridge’: “a wonderful book, a fantastic selection – and such diversity… The freshest collection I’ve seen in yonks.”
James Carter