Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture, tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe.
Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm
Entertain your dark side with poet Louise Warren, who will be reading from her new book ‘Poison’, a collection of poems that explores the chemical, the botanical and the medicinal – all deadly. Hear stories of unfortunate foragers, embittered spouses, exploited workers, professional poisoners, and more.
From Arsenic to Strychnine, Belladonna to Venom. Discover what goes into poison and how they are used or misused. Hear about their effects on the body and cause of death.
This talk and poetry reading will be illuminating, macabre, engaging, informative and theatrical!
Copies of the book will be on sale for you to dip into later.
What’s your favourite poison?
Louise Warren is a poet and writer.
Her first collection A Child’s Last Picture of the Zoo won the Cinnamon Press debut poetry competition and was published in 2012. A pamphlet In the scullery with John Keats also published by Cinnamon 2016. In 2018 she won first prize in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition with her poem The Marshes which appears in her pamphlet John Dust illustrated by John Duffin published by V.Press in 2019. Sometime, in a Churchyard, is a collaboration with the artist Charlotte Harker published by Paekakariki Press October 2022.
Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.
The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.
