Poetry in the Crypt

Open Mic Event

Contact: nmattson@sampo.plus.com

Midway between Angel and Highbury & Islington tube stations. Buses 4, 19, 30 and 43. On arrival, please watch for signs directing you to the entrance to the crypt.

Anne Berkeley grew up in Lincolnshire & lives in Cambridge. Her first pamphlet was The Buoyancy Aid and Other Poems (Flarestack, 1997), and her work was included in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet). She won the TLS prize in 2000 and was an Arvon prizewinner in 2004. She edited Rebecca Elson's posthumous collection A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet, 2001) and is currently editor of Seam. She also performs with the poetry group Joy of Six. Her first full collection, The Men from Praga, is published by Salt (2009).

C. L. Dallat comes from Ballycastle, in the Antrim Glens, but has lived in London since 1974. He writes on Irish fiction and drama for a range of literary journals and has been a regular panellist on Radio 4's Saturday Review. His poem 'Love on a Rock' won the 2006 Strokestown International Poetry Competition; he has also won prizes in many other major competitions. He has published two collections: Morning Star (Lagan Press, 1998) and The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff, 2009).

Siriol Troup is a London-based poet and translator. She read German and French at Oxford University and later returned there to teach French literature. Her poems have won top prizes in several competitions. Her first poetry pamphlet, Moss, was a winner of the Poetry Monthly Open Booklet competition 2002, and her first full collection, Drowning up the Blue End, came out with bluechrome in 2004. Her second book, Beneath the Rime, has just been published by Shearsman (2009).

Poets from the floor welcome

Proceeds will support work with orphans and HIV+ women in Igatpuri, India

Price: £4.00 / £3.00

Time: 7:30 p.m.