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Elaine Feinstein surveys the talent in this year?s Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection [...]

Willl Rowe, editor of the Salt Companion to Bill Griffiths writes on his life in today?s Guardian:

He published more than 80 volumes of poetry, but never lived much above the poverty line – and a good deal of his life was spent below it. Years of poor diet no doubt hastened his death. [...]

You are invited to the launch of

Some New Ambush by Carys Davies.

Carys Davies

Sunday 23rd September at 7pm at the Dukes Gallery, Moor Lane, Lancaster.

Drinks, readings and live music from Brodbeck & Castle

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Nicholas Johnson writes on Bill Griffiths in today’s Independent:

Prolific, experimental poet who became fascinated by the dialect and history of north-east England

Bill Griffiths

Brian Bransom Griffiths, poet: born Kingsbury, Middlesex 20 August 1948; died Seaham, Co Durham 13 September 2007.

The poet Bill Griffiths was an extraordinary writer: [...]

Geraldine Monk

Launch Reading The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk Edited by Scott Thurston

The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk

Readings by Scott Thurston, Christine Kennedy, David Kennedy, Harriet Tarlo, Sean Bonney, David Annwn, Frances Presley, Elizabeth James, Chris Goode – & – Geraldine Monk.

Saturday, September 22nd Site Gallery, [...]

The Oxford, Kentish Town

John Hartley Williams & Natalie Williams

Monday 24th September

The Oxford 265 Kentish Town Rd, Kentish Town, London NW5 2AA

8 p.m. onwards

The Ship is availlable now!

The Ship

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A ONE-OFF POETRY READING & LIVE INTERVIEW WITH JOHN KINSELLA

Friday October 5th 2007. Foyles Gallery @ Foyles Bookshop 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London

This exciting event will feature a 20 minute reading followed by a live interview with leading Australian poet and environmental activist John Kinsella. The resulting interview will then [...]

Rupert Loydell reviews David Grubb, Peter Jaeger, Luke Kennard, Tony Lopez and Ethan Paquin on Stride Magazine .

Let’s make no bones about it: I know and have published most of these writers. If you want detached, aloof critical commentary leave now. ?Step away from the review. Turn round slowly and lie down with [...]

Michaelhouse readings CB1

After nearly ten years at CB1 Caf? on Mill Road, CB1 Poetry is embarking on a major new series of city centre guest readings at the Michaelhouse Centre on Trinity Street.

Acclaimed novelist and award winning poet Tobias Hill has agreed to become a patron of CB1 Poetry, [...]

Sarah Crown considers the location and humour in Eleanor Rees and Luke Kennard in today’s Guardian (15 September 2007).

“The coherence provided by the location gives the poems vital integrity.” She says of Andraste’s Hair . “Eleanor Rees’s debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool. Her dense, textured renderings [...]