Programme

We present a wide range of writers performing a variety of styles – poetry, drama, prose – in an atmosphere that is very friendly. We invite both new work and professional polish. There are open mic opportunities at every meeting.

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Recent events

12th December – George Szirtes, Padrika Tarrant

Born in Hungary in 1948, George Szirtes published his first book of poems, The Slant Door, in 1979. It won the Faber Prize. He has published many since then, winning the T S Eliot Prize in 2004, for which he has been twice shortlisted since, most recently for Bad...

9th May – Moniza Alvi, Dani Redd, Sharlene Teo

Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. Her collections include The Country at My Shoulder (1993), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread poetry prizes and selected for the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ promotion), Europa...

9th November – JL Williams, Sophie Essex, Alison Falconer

      JL Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire (Shearsman, 2011), was inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and a journey to the Aeolian Islands.  Her second collection, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman, 2014), explores the idea of home and where we come...