POETRY LONDON Autumn 2009 launch reading
This event on 14th October 2009 at 18:30 has past.
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Free entrance, free wine
featuring DON PATERSON, HELEN FARISH, JOHN STAMMERS, JUDY BROWN
DON PATERSON’s first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. God's Gift to Women (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize. His latest collection of poems, Landing Light (2003), won both the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2008, he won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) and was awarded an OBE. His latest books are Best Thoughts, Worst Thoughts: On Art, Sex, Work and Death (2008); and a new poetry collection, Rain (2009), shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
Don Paterson is poetry editor for the London publishers Picador and he reviews for several national newspapers. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
HELEN FARISH’s first collection, Intimates (2005) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
JOHN STAMMERS' third collection, Interior Night, will be published by Picador in summer 2010. He lives in London.
JUDY BROWN was a winner in Templar Poetry’s pamphlet competition for Pillars of Salt (2006). She received the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2005.
Door open 6pm, readings 6.30pm
Disabled access
Entry: Free
Time: 6:30pm
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