Poetry at THE ROOM

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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry from the startling - ISABEL DEL RIO, SALMA LYNCH, MATTHEW CALEY & HANNAH GORDON - hosted by TOM BLAND

£5 entry and drinks for a donation

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Isabel del Rio is a writer, poet and translator. She has been a journalist for several media, including BBC World Service, and a literary and technical translator. Her most recent book “Zero Negative” is a bilingual collection of short stories on the subject of bloodshed. She is about to publish a new poetry collection, and is writing a non-fiction book on language as well as a thriller.

Salma Lynch is an English Lit graduate, whose favourite modules included existentialism (a difficult philosophy to argue against). Her favourite book to dissect was Don DeLillo’s White Noise. She is a self-labelled ‘accidental’ poet, who is a part of the Roundhouse’s 2016 Poetry Collective.

Matthew Caley’s Thirst was nominated for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He’s read at many venues/festivals including The National Portrait Gallery; The Globe Theatre, King’s Place, and Alchemy in Prague. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and his fifth collection Rake is published by Bloodaxe.

Hannah Gordon is a spoken word poet from North West London. She co-hosts a weekly open mic night in Dalston, Spoken Word London. She writes poetry with a certain degree of wit and her performance style is honest. She has featured at several events in London, and performed in Paris and Vancouver. In 2014, she won the Boomtown Festival Slam.

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:30pm