Event overview
Acclaimed poets Maura Dooley and Abigail Parry read from and discuss their latest collections
Maura Dooley’s most recent collection Five Fifty-Five (Bloodaxe) was published in Spring 2023. She has been short-listed three times for the TSEliot Award and also for the Forward Single Poem Award. With Elhum Shakerifar she published translations of verse by the Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, Negative of a Group Photograph (Bloodaxe/PTC) which received a PEN award and was shortlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize. She is Professor Emerita at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Abigail Parry’s first collection, Jinx, deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume. Jinx was named a book of the year in The New Statesman, the Telegraph and the Morning Star, and has been described as “a party in a bag” (Declan Ryan) and “vaudevillian sleaze” (Stephanie Sy-Quia). Her second collection, I Think We're Alone Now, investigates the idea of intimacy.
This is a free, in person event and there is no need to register in advance.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 31 Jan 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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