YORK writer, musician and storyteller Miles Salter hosts an evening of music and poetry at The Basement, City Screen, on September 6.
Headlining the 8pm event will be Sheffield poet Helen Mort, who has enjoyed a strong profile on the national poetry scene in recent years, appearing on BBC television and helping to judge the Booker prize.
Her first collection, Division Street, won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S.Eliot Prize. Her second collection, No Map Could Show Them, was published in 2016.
Salter's creative work has encompassed writing, music, storytelling and work in education and on this occasion he will be performing some of his songs and poems, joined by King Courgette and Leather'O percussionist Billy Hickling. He has published two collections of poetry with Valley Press, The Border in 2011 and Animals in 2013, and a third collection, Fix, is pencilled in for 2019.
Salter believes combining songs and poems is very effective: "The music takes you somewhere the poetry can't, and the poetry takes you somewhere the music can't," he reasons.
Tickets cost £5 at thebasement.co.uk or on 0871 902 5747 or £6 on the door.
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