Saturday 31st January, 2pm in person. Event expected to finish by 3pm

£9 is the ticket/event price. Your booking will include a copy of the pamphlet in Landscape With Mines

Anna Bowles is a British humanitarian volunteer who has made six visits to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In Landscape With Mines, her first poetry pamphlet, she draws the reader into the immediacy and struggle of daily life under existential threat, for those resisting the invasion or merely hoping to survive it. These poems are vivid, dramatic, aware and compassionate witness to pain and courage under extreme circumstances.

Reviews
‘Few in the West pay attention to Ukraine, but Anna Bowles really sees it.’
– Kateryna Babkina, winner of the Angelus Award 2021
‘With startling clarity, precise imagery, and dry wit, Bowles’s razor-sharp poems draw on her experiences with soldiers and civilians in Ukraine. Her work reminds us why we read poetry, as she captures that which is too painful or inexplicable to be contained in ordinary language, and strikes right at the core of our complacence.’
– Rosamund Taylor, author of In Her Jaws

‘These staccato, flickering poems skilfully record the vast and tiny harms of invasion, and the resistance it engenders, in fast-paced and hard-to-forget lines. This is a powerful pamphlet, both harsh and caring, full of love and outrage.’
– Judy Brown, author of Crowd Sensations

‘Direct, surreal, haunting: in these closely observed and darkly moving poems, Anna Bowles snatches Russia’s war out of the news and drops it right in front of your heart’s eye.’
– Julian Evans, author of Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War