Oxfam Poetry Night

Featuring Frances Leviston, Chris Jones, Helen Mort, and Ben Wilkinson.

Refreshments available at adjacent Lounge Bar (some drinks discounted).

FRANCES LEVISTON (1982-) read English at Oxford, and has an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. A pamphlet of her work, Lighter, was published in 2004 and her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and her collection, Public Dream, published by Picador (2007), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

CHRIS JONES won an Eric Gregory Award in 1996. From 1997 to 1999 he was writer in residence at Nottingham Prison. His pamphlet Hard on the Knuckle was published in 1993 – and he has put together a sequence of poems (At the End of the Road, a River) exploring the course of the Don through Sheffield. A full-length collection, The Safe House, was published in 2007.

HELEN MORT’s  pamphlet, The Shape of Every Box, was published in 2007, the year she won an Eric Gregory Award. A 5-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, Helen’s work has been published in Poetry London, The Rialto, Dreamcatcher and the Times Educational Supplement. She was winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize in 2008 and is currently working on a new pamphlet and accompanying poetry show, A Pint for the Ghost.

BEN WILKINSON (1985-) has had poems published in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Magma, Stand and the Times Literary Supplement. His first pamphlet of poems, The Sparks, was published last year as part of Tall-Lighthouse's Pilot series, showcasing the best poets under 30 yet to publish a collection.

Entry: £2.50 donation on the door and free poetry CD;

Time: 6:30pm