Poetry in the House: Acumen magazine

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The launch of the 75th issue of Acumen, a literary journal of new poetry set in a context of essays, articles, memoirs and reviews from large and independent publishers. Readings by Tim Cunningham, Roy Davids, Wendy French, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Alan Murray and Kathleen Quinlan.

Tim Cunningham's poetry is various and fascinating. Author of three volumes of poetry, he grew up in Limerick, moved through Dublin, Trowbridge, London and Delaware before settling in Essex.

Roy Davids' nature poems have a delicacy of perception; his reflective poems show his gift for language and description. His poetry portrays the many-sided nature of Man in a way which involves the reader or listener. He is a collector of autographed letters and miniature bronzes.

Wendy French won the inaugural Hippocrates Prize for poetry and won first prize in the Torbay Open Poetry Competition. She facilitates creative writing in Health Care and in the National Health Community programmes. She combines earthy details with a sense of the intangible in gentle yet urgent poems.

Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York City, has lived in Rome, London, Paris and the British Virgin Islands which she still considers home. Her work has been published world-wide and last year she published her collection 'The Ring'. She is now working on a collection called 'A Boat Called Annalise'.

Alan Murray has worked as a session musician and, more recently, as a lecturer in philosophy at Middlesex University and Goldsmiths, specialising in epistemology and the philosophy of science. He won the 2004 Torbay Poetry Competition and has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He will be reading from, and launching, his new pamphlet from Acumen Occasional Publications.

A ten-poem sampler of Kathleen Quinlan's poetry was long-listed for the 2012 Cinnamon Press Poetry Award. Her childhood on a lake in rural Maine inspired a love of nature. Educated as a social scientist, she often uses poetry to explore social issues. She now teaches and conducts educational research at Oxford University.


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www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk
or call 020 8348 8716

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 8:00pm