Join us for Arts Night Out Northampton as we present poet, Connolly Ryan. He will be reading from his newly released poetry collection, Velocity at Rest, published by Meat For Tea.

"Connolly Ryan’s new poetry collection, Velocity at Rest, is just what its title suggests: poems which paradoxically push forth with the speed of wit and muti-tasking language to the breaking point, before the words, whipped to their limits and leaving the reader amazed, laughing, stunned, and whirled about with their incessant and jocular wordplay, for a moment come to rest in a world reminiscent of St. Francis’s letters to the world and Mary Oliver’s pilgrim-like meditations. What a collection this is, where every poem invites you to step in and then stop and ask yourself what it all means—your family, your home, your memories and traumas and pent-up angers and, yes, those rest points only a mother and wife and family can offer, as you trod on your journey to wherever you are going, but resting too to listen to the trees and the snowflakes covering you in their resplendent beauty. Very seldom have I come across a book of poems that has satisfied the spiritual hunger in me like these.”

-Paul Mariani, Author of Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman,and William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked