Event overview
With readings from Richard Scott, Abigail Parry and Miriam Nash
Richard Scott’s poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers, The Poetry of Sex (Penguin) and Butt Magazine. His pamphlet ‘Wound’ (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016, his poem ‘crocodile’ won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber 2018), his first book, is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award.
Abigail Parry was a toymaker before completing a doctoral thesis at Goldsmiths on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated, broadcast on BBC and RTÉ Radio, and widely published in journals and anthologies. She has won a number of prizes including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first book, Jinx, (Bloodaxe, 2018), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018.
Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid off the west coast of Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson’s family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House (Bloodaxe, 2017), which won an Eric Gregory Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and was runner-up for an Edwin Morgan Award. Miriam helps children and young people become authors through her work at the Ministry of Stories in East London. http://www.miriamnash.com
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Dec 2018 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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