In this event, James will read poems from ‘Father Myself’ and be in conversation about the collection with writer and fellow UEA lecturer Steve Waters.
In January 2022, local writer and UEA lecturer James McDermott lost his sixty year old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. His father had refused the COVID vaccines.
In ‘Father Myself’, his second collection of poetry from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex life, illness and death; the pandemic; grief; growth; and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.
In this event, James will read poems from ‘Father Myself’ and be in conversation about the collection with writer and fellow UEA lecturer Steve Waters.
This will be followed by an audience Q&A then a book signing.