Poetry in the House

Contact: shantaacharya@btinternet.com, 020 8341 7799

Shanta Acharya, Dan Burt, Michael Schmidt and Jane Yeh.

Shanta Acharya is an internationally published poet, writer and literary critic. Born in India, she won a scholarship to Oxford where she completed her DPhil in English before going to Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar. Subsequently, she moved to London and worked in the City as a fund manager before joining London Business School. She has nine books published in fields as diverse as poetry, literary studies and asset management. Her latest collection of poetry, her fifth, is Dreams That Spell The Light (Arc Publications, UK; 2010). www.shantaacharya.com

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia, read English at St. John?s College, Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and business man, his poems have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, TLS, The Financial Times, The New Statesman. Two chapbooks, Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011) were published by Lintott/ Carcanet Press as well as a collaboration, Cold Eye, with artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough Graphics / Lintott Press, 2010). Carcanet published We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose, in May 2012. www.danburtpoetry.com

Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow, where he is convenor of the Creative Writing Programme. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing Director of Carcanet Press, and founder and General Editor of PN Review. He has published collections of poems, most recent Collected Poems (2010), novels, anthologies and volumes of literary history, and two books of translations.

Jane Yeh's first full-length collection, Marabou, was published by Carcanet in 2005 and shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Jerwood Aldeburgh poetry prizes. Her chapbook, Teen Spies, was published in 2003 by Metre Editions. Her new collection, The Ninjas, has just been published by Carcanet. She has been awarded the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a residency at Yaddo. Currently a teacher of creative writing at Kingston University, she also writes on books, theatre, fashion, and sport.

Poetry in the House is organised and hosted by Shanta Acharya

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 8:00pm