by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2015 | recent events
Ira Lightman plays with words, the look of them, the sound of them, the dictionary meaning of them, the way that the English language works in comparison with other languages. He also loves to perform, to jump around, whoop, sing and pull faces while adopting strange...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2014 | recent events
Ron Egatz was born in 1966 and lives in Westchester County, New York. He has worked as a freelance graphic designer, IT consultant and commercials director. He runs poetry and fiction workshops with groups and individuals including occasional teaching at Sarah...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2014 | recent events
Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park where he scribbles verse whilst drinking scotch, listening to Johnny Cash and throwing heavy objects at his portable telly. Elvis’ sitcom...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2014 | recent events
Andrew Cowan is the author of five novels, including Pig and, most recently, Worthless Men (both published by Sceptre), and the guidebook The Art of Writing Fiction. He is the Director of the Creative Writing programme at UEA. Extract from Your...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2014 | recent events
Unfortunately our scheduled guest reader and judge of the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition, David Morley, is no longer able to attend February’s meeting. However, we have a wealth of competition winning and commended poets in the building and we will have the...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Allison McVety’s poems have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Poetry Review and Poetry London, have been broadcast on BBC radio and anthologised in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011 and The Best British Poetry 2013. Her first collection The Night Trotsky...
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...
