by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Picture by Tereza Cervenova Born and raised in Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong is the author of two poetry collections, including Goldfish and Summer Cicadas published by Chameleon Press. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Young British...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Photo by Dot & Lucy Photography American expatriate Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001 and taught creative writing at Bath Spa University since 2004. She has published three collections, The Tethers (Seren, 2009), Divining for Starters (Shearsman,...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Maitreyabandhu has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, The Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and Ledbury Festival Competition. His pamphlet, The Bond won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition (2010) and was shortlisted for the Michael...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Julia Bird grew up in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She studied at Reading and Sussex Universities and has worked as an arts administrator and literature promoter since graduating. She works part-time for the Poetry School, and as an independent...
by admin | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Kate Fox has been a regular Poet for Radio 4’s Saturday Live since 2007 and popped up on BBC2’s Daily Politics and Chelsea Flower show coverage as well as at gigs all over the country and Radio 4’s Today programme, Radio 3’s The Verb and many...
by admin | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Bobby Parker Bobby born in 1982 and lives in Kidderminster, England. Publications include the critically acclaimed experimental books Ghost Town Music and Comberton, both published by The Knives Forks & Spoons Press. His poetry, artwork and...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Competition Judge Deryn Rees-Jones will announce this year’s winners and will also read from her own work. Deryn Rees-Jones is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool. ‘The Memory Tray’ (Seren, 1995) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Katherine Kilalea was born in South Africa and moved to London in 2005 to study for an M.A. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of One Eye’d Leigh, shortlisted for a Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas...
by admin | Nov 10, 2013 | recent events
’12 Slanted Poems for Christmas’, the new and first anthology from Ink, Sweat & Tears will be launched at The Book Hive on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 6.30pm With readings from George Szirtes, Julia Webb, Bethany W Pope, Moniza Alvi and Andrea...
by admin | Oct 29, 2013 | recent events
Robert Wrigley was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up not far away in Collinsville, a coal mining town. In 1971, with a draft lottery number of 66, he was inducted into the U.S. Army. After four months of training and duties, he filed for discharge on the...
by admin | Oct 10, 2013 | recent events
Matthew Welton was born in Nottingham on 3 September 1969, and lives in Nottingham and teaches creative writing at the University of Nottingham. His publications include The Book of Matthew (Carcanet, 2003) and We needed coffee but we’d got ourselves convinced that he...
by admin | Aug 25, 2013 | recent events
George Szirtes is a T S Eliot Prize-winning poet. George was born in Budapest and came to England with his family at the age of eight. He will read from a new collection, Bad Machine, which focuses on the body, poetry emerging from the sudden deaths of his elderly...
