Wednesday 24 November, 7pm
Aubin & Wills 188 Westbourne Grove W11 2RH
Nearest tube: Westbourne Park / Notting Hill Gate

Free entry, refreshments provided

Please RSVP to info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk

Tim Dooley has taught in and near London since 1974. He has reviewed poetry for the TLS. and has worked as a creative writing tutor for Arvon, Writers’ Inc and The Poetry School. His first collection The Interrupted Dream was published by Anvil in 1985. This was followed by The Secret Ministry (2001) and Tenderness (2004), both winners in the Poetry Business pamphlet competition. Tenderness was also a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. His latest collection is Imagined Rooms(Salt).

“Dooley deals with whatever comes – news, memories, encounters, dreams: nothing is out of bounds” – Philip Gross

George Ttoouli is an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme. He co-founded the Heaventree Press in 2002 and has worked in the education team at the Poetry Society. He’s now mostly skint, in Coventry. He co-edits poetry blogzine Gists & Piths. In 2004 he received a Jerwood-Arvon Young Writing Apprenticeship to work on a novel, which he still hasn’t abandoned. Static Exile is his debut collection of poetry, published by Penned in the Margins in 2010.
http://gistsandpiths.blogspot.com

“I don’t expect poetry to make me laugh my ass off, but this totally got me” – China Mieville

Hannah Walker is a performance poet, visual artist, project manager and serial apologist. She studied literature at UEA and a poetry MA in Newcastle and was short listed for the Bridport in 2009.  She has worked as an editor and education facilitator and is working towards her first collection You interrupt my brain sweetheart.  She has performed at events, festivals and residencies around the country including Latitude, Truck, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Shunt.  Hannah is a socialiser, experimentor and maker of nests.
http://www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk

“Hannah Walker is a new breed of poet – smart and sharp on the page but with a natural ability to communicate her work beautifully in performance.  I could listen to her for hours” – Luke Wright

Julia Bird grew up in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She works for the Poetry School and as a freelance live literature producer. Her debut collection, Hannah and the Monk, was published by Salt in 2008.
http://juliabird.wordpress.com

“Hannah and the Monk is a first collection that bristles with lust for life” – Annie Freud