A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler - Online Book Launch

Join Carcanet to celebrate the launch of A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler, with an online reading hosted by John McAuliffe. The event will feature poetry readings, a discussion and audience Q&A.

The registration fee is redeemable against the cost of the book.

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West’s greatest music in A History of Western Music. Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. From John Coltrane to Annie Lennox, from opera to bebop and all the jingles and melodies in between, A History of Western Music is a portrait of the vast range of meaning and memory that music creates and contains in one’s life.

About the speakers:

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. He lives in San Francisco.

John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing.