Poetry in The Lodge – with Rob Hindle

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Poetry In The Lodge with Rob Hindle, Thursday 19th May, 7pm.

SGCT’s exclusive and intimate Poetry In the Lodge evening at The Sexton’s Lodge, Sheffield General Cemetery.

Join us for a poetry reading in our beautiful lodge where you can meet poet, Rob Hindle and discuss his work. Our atmospheric space, The Sexton’s Lodge, has been furnished with original pieces, lighting and antiques from 19th century. It is a small traditional worker’s cottage so tickets are limited to 10 people. Hot and cold drinks, including wine and local craft ales will be available. All bar donations will go towards the work of Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.

Rob Hindle is originally from Rotherham now living in the Loxley Valley on the outskirts of Sheffield. His poetry is drawn from an abiding interest in social history, and much of his writing focuses on the lives of people caught up in dramatic, sometimes violent, events. His collections include The Grail Roads, a reimagining of the Grail story in the trenches of the First World War, chosen as 2018 Book of the Year by The New European; and Yoke and Arrows, a dramatic recounting of the assassination of Lorca in the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War.

More locally, his Flights and Traverses sequence, appearing in The Footing anthology by Longbarrow Press, follows in the traces of historical figures through Sheffield’s past, including the Chartist Thomas Holberry and the gangs of the 1920s. His first collection, Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864, won the inaugural Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 2006. Exploring the personal experiences of ordinary people at a moment of catastrophe, it was described as ‘lyrical and, occasionally, heartbreaking’. Rob will read from ‘Flood’ this evening in the intimate setting of the Sexton’s Lodge at the entrance to the General Cemetery, where a number of the victims of the ‘Great Inundation’ are buried. He will also talk about the ways in which his encounters with history have informed his work.

Tickets are £10 per person. All proceeds go towards the work of Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.