tall-lighthouse at Essex Poetry Festival

Contact: http://www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk/

Four tall-lighthouse poets perform as part of the Essex's Poetry festival's big day of poetry, which will also feature Kathryn Simmonds, Inua Ellams and John Hartley Williams.

David Crystal was born in Prudhoe, Northumberland in 1963 and now lives and works in London. He has worked as literary editor of DOG magazine and his work featured in the Body & Soul exhibition at the ICA. He has had two collections from Two Rivers Press. His new collection from tall-lighthouse is 'wrong horse home'.

Brendan Cleary has published several full-length poetry collections including The Irish Card & Sacrilege from Bloodaxe & stranger in the house from Wrecking Ball Press. Over twenty years he has also published numerous pamphlets from various small presses, his latest being Jackson from Pighog Press. He currently lives in Brighton where he works as a poetry tutor. His second with tall-lighthouse ‘some turbulent weather’ was pubished in June 08.

Alan Buckley was brought up on Merseyside. He moved to Oxford in the eighties to study English Literature and has lived there ever since. He has worked, among other things, as a forklift truck driver a psychotherapist, and as poet in residence at a prison. His tall-lighthouse pamphlet ‘shiver’ was the Poetry Book Society Choice for summer 2009.

Alex Brockhurst, Originally from Cambridge, Alex has lived in Brighton for many years where she has achieved success in the fields of Fine Art, Law & Psychology. Her tall-lighthouse pamphlet ‘black fen’ was published in April 2009.

Price: £5.00 / £3.50

Time: 1:00pm