by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2016 | recent events
Photo of Peter Daniels by David Green Peter Daniels has won poetry competitions including the Arvon, Ledbury and TLS, and published pamphlets with Smith/Doorstop, Vennel Press and HappenStance. His first collection Counting Eggs appeared from Mulfran Press (Cardiff)...
by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2016 | recent events
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...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 17, 2016 | recent events
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...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2015 | recent events
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...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2015 | recent events
Jemima Foxtrot was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Spoken Word Fellowship 2015. She has performed extensively across the UK at venues and festivals including Latitude Festival, Colchester Arts Centre and Nuffield Theatre. She recently...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 13, 2015 | recent events
Preti Taneja began writing fiction in 2010, inspired by her work as a reporter, filmmaker and activist in the field of human rights. She has worked with people fleeing conflict in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Rwanda and Kenya among other places and her...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 12, 2015 | recent events
Tiffany Atkinson is a poet, literary critic, and long-time creative writing teacher in universities, schools and community writing groups. Her poetry is published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection Kink and Particle (Seren,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2015 | recent events
Born in London in 1971, Adam Horovitz moved with his parents to Stroud, Gloucestershire the same year. He has been active as a poet since the 1990s but has been writing since childhood. He released his first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, in 2004 and a...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 10, 2015 | recent events
. . . .Both pamphlets can now be purchased from the Ink Sweat & Tears shop: http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?page_id=5711 This event is the pamphlet launch for the joint winners, Jay Bernard and Jonathan Morley, of the 2014 Cafe Writers Commission held...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Holly Hopkins lives and works in London. Her debut pamphlet, Soon Every House Will Have One, won the 2014 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. Holly is an assistant...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Julian Stannard is the author of Rina’s War (Peterloo, 2001), The Red Zone (Peterloo, 2007), The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon, 2011) and The Street of Perfect Love (Worple, 2014). A new book – Hotel Magnificent – is...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Jon McGregor writes novels and short stories. His recent books include a short story collection, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, and his third novel, Even the Dogs, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literature Award in 2012. He is...
