by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Liz Berry’s debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Black...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
John Greening has published more than a dozen collections (notably To the War Poets, Carcanet, 2013), and several studies of poetry and poets. His edition of Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War (OUP) appeared in 2015, along with a classical music...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster and in 1992 worked as a volunteer with the Wordsworth Trust, then worked full-time for Cheltenham Arts Festivals. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she also edited four...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Andrew McMillan was born in South Yorkshire in 1988: his debut collection Physical is the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award, it also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize,...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2005 before completing an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he now teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. He was awarded an...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African author of four novels and a short-story collection. The UK and US editions of her novel Nineveh were published in 2016, and Green Lion will arrive in the UK in 2017. Her work has won the Caine Prize for African Writing...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Alvin Pang is a poet, writer and editor from Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, an advisor to the International Poetry Studies Institute, and a founding director of The Literary Centre, Singapore. Listed in the Oxford Companion to...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize. Her most recent novel is Death and the Seaside. Her short...
by Helen Ivory | May 31, 2016 | recent events
Photo – Esther Ling Sarah Perry was born in Essex. She gained a PhD in Creative Writing & the Gothic from Royal Holloway in 2012, having been supervised by Andrew Motion. A winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize & a Royal Holloway doctoral...
by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2016 | recent events
Photo of Isobel Dixon by Jo Kearney Isobel Dixon was born in South Africa where her debut collection Weather Eye won the Olive Schreiner Award. She co-wrote and performed in the multi-media show The Debris Field, about RMS Titanic, and is working on a collaboration...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2016 | recent events
Michael Laskey co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and co-edited fifty issues of the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll between1991 and 2012. His Garlic Press publishes mainly Suffolk-based poets. Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and twice PBS recommended,...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2016 | recent events
We are delighted to welcome the winners and the runner-up of the inaugural Stare’s Nest Fledgling Award for the best debut pamphlet competition for a poet over forty, to Cafe Writers. This year’s judge was our very own Martin Figura, who...
