# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 08:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: A Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows of the public library offers a prosaic starkness, ‘Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness’ somehow transformed via a ‘Leaf-vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings,’ so that in a playground, at the side of the road with cars passing, we are with ‘a local deity of the edgelands.’

And in this newly entered world this poet sees the immiseration of the dispossessed for what it is; tent cities in the underpass and men at traffic lights cleaning windscreens, fit subject for elegy and lament from a poet equal to the task. Baker’s declarative lyricism is a lifeline sustained throughout these 64 psalms. This is not just a poet writing poetry with its usual tricks and epiphanies. Baker has taken Sidney’s advice and looked in his heart to write. In this way the marketplace in town is a vision of the world with poetry in its very bones.

Alan Baker was born and brought up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has lived in Nottingham since 1985, where he runs the poetry publisher Leafe Press and its associated webzine, Litter.

Supported by Maria Taylor and Caroline Stancer.

Caroline Stancer was awarded a Creative Writing MA in 2020 from Nottingham Trent University. She is studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and recently completed a novel. Caroline co-runs the poetry collective and podcast, Dandelions Poetry. Her first poetry pamphlet, Full Body Reclaim, was published by Five Leaves New Poetry

Maria Taylor is a British Cypriot poet who has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes. She has been widely published including poems and reviews in The Guardian, Magma and various anthologies. Her most recent collection is Dressing for the Afterlife (Nine Arches Press).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/nottingham/a-book-of-psalms-poetry-book-launch-with-alan-baker-supported-by-caroline-stancer-and-maria-taylor/200029941471104
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Nottingham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 52.95377
- **long**: -1.15103
- **full address**: 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor being held?
  - **A:** A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor takes place on Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 21 May, 2026 at 08:30 pm at 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor?
  - **A:** A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor is organized by Five Leaves Bookshop.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Nottingham, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If A Book of Psalms, poetry book launch with Alan Baker, supported by Caroline Stancer and Maria Taylor sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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