Poetry in the House

Contact: shantaacharya@btinternet.com, 020 8341 7799

With Tiffany Atkinson, Nick Drake, and Maria Jastrzebska.

Tiffany Atkinson is a senior lecturer in English at Aberystwyth University. She was winner of the Ottakar's and Faber National Poetry Competition (2000) and the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition (2001). Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second collection, Catulla et al (Bloodaxe 2011) was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. She is the poetry editor for The New Welsh Review.

Nick Drake's first collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was selected for the Next Generation Poets in 2004. He is also a screenwriter; his screenplay for the Australian film, Romulus, My Father, won Best Film at the Australian Film Awards; he is currently adapting White Mughals by William Dalrymple. His stage work includes To Reach the Clouds, an adaptation of Philippe Petit's book about his walk between the Twin Towers, and Success, a play for the National Theatre's Connections project. In 2010 he travelled to the Arctic at the invitation of Cape Farewell, and was subsequently commissioned to write the texts and poems for High Arctic, an installation by United Visual Artists at the National Maritime Museum (2011). The poems from that voyage are gathered in his most recent collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012). www.nickfdrake.com

Maria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw and came to England as a child. At The Library of Memories (Waterloo Press, 2013) is her third full-length collection. She co-translated Elsewhere by Iztok Osojnik with Ana Jelnikar (Pighog Press, 2011). Following a Wellcome Trust award her drama, Dementia Diaries, toured nationally in 2011 with Lewes Live Literature. Her work is widely anthologised from The Virago Book of Wicked Verse to This Line Is Not For Turning, Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press 2011). She lives in Brighton.

Poetry in the House is organised and hosted by Shanta Acharya

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 8:00pm