Health Hireth Bristol Book Launch @Tonic

The in-person book launch for Health Hireth will take place at Rough Trade, Bristol on Wednesday 6th September at 7:00pm, with a headline set from Taran Spalding-Jenkin reading from their new book, and support from the wonderful local poets Tom Denbigh and Helen Sheppard.

Taran would be delighted to see you there to help celebrate their exciting new work, enjoy brand new work from the local poetry scene, dance, and eat cake.

You can buy tickets here from DICE or on the door. A limited number of discounted early bird tickets are still available, and a number of books will be available to purchase from Taran at the event or online from Broken Sleep Books.

More details for the event which is being jointly run with the rest of the team at Tonic:

Tonic, Bristol's Music & Poetry Party, is all about sumptuous spoken word and magical music-making. The oak-smoked vocals of Taran Spalding-Jenkin, whether singing a spellbinding shanty or whisking you away with his spoken word, join us on Wednesday 6th September for another wonderful night at Rough Trade Bristol.

Each month, Team Tonic rocks in our beautiful city, inspiring brand new writing, welcome creative discussion and promote some of the best and brightest music & spoken word talent in the South West and further afield.

Come join this brimming community of writers, art-lovers and all-round gorgeous folk.

HEADLINER

Taran Spalding-Jenkin

Taran Spalding-Jenkin is a poet, performer, translator and native Kernewek speaker with a background in drama and folk tradition. Their work explores the spaces between identities, disability, queerness, and hireth – the longing for a lost home or one which has never existed. Taran is a co-runner of Bristol’s music and poetry party Tonic, a bilingual workshop leader, and has won awards from Gorsedh Kernow for poetry and for BBC radio project A Shanty For Cornish Youth, including the Awen Medal for Creativity.