by admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
This event will now be held through ZOOM. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details. Tom Sastry’s debut collection A Man’s House Catches Fire was shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney Prize and Highly...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
This event will be held through Zoom. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details.Jessica Mookherjee is a poet of Bengali origin. She grew up in Wales and now lives in Kent. She has been published in many print and online...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
This event will be held through Zoom. you can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see home page for details. Jackie Wills has spent her working life as a journalist, editor and teacher. She’s a lifetime member of the National Union of Journalists,...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
John McCullough’s first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs won the Polari First Book Prize in 2012 and was a Book of the Year for The Independent as well as a summer read in The Observer. His second, Spacecraft (Penned in the Margins, 2016) was named one of...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
Philip Gross has published over twenty collections of poetry, including The Water Table, which won the T.S.Eliot Prize 2009, and a new collection, Between The Islands, from Bloodaxe in March, 2020. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and his science-based...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor who has recently completed touring Europe, Australia, Brazil and South east Asia with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologist, the author of three full poetry...
by Anne Bailey | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
George Szirtes’s first book of poems, The Slant Door, in 1979 was joint-winner of the Faber Prize. He has published many since then, his collection, Reel, winning the T S Eliot Prize in 2004 for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His latest is Mapping the...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
9th March – Amanthi Harris and S.A. Harris Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt....
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
Zaffar Kunial (headliner and competition judge) Competition winners (support) Published by Faber & Faber, Zaffar Kunial’s debut book — ‘Us’ (2018) — was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Rathbones...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
9th December – Chrissy Williams and Kathy Pimlott Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She edits the online poetry journal PERVERSE. Her first book-length collection BEAR was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Poetry Review called it...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
11th November 2019 – Ink, Sweat & Tears: commission winners Gail Connell & Jo Young UEA MA Scholars – Konstantin Nicholas Rega and Memoona Zahid Gail McConnell is a writer and lecturer from Belfast. Her first poetry pamphlet is Fourteen (Green Bottle...
by Web Admin | Aug 2, 2019 | recent events
14th October – Joint headline Mary Jean Chan and Will Harris Mary Jean Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong, and studied at the universities of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Her debut collection Flèche is a Poetry Society Recommendation, and was recently...
