Wednesday 14 December, 7pm
Aubin & Wills, 188 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RH
Nearest tube: Westbourne Park / Notting Hill Gate
Free entry; refreshments provided
Please RSVP to info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk
Luke Wrightis a poet and broadcaster. His poetry has been published in The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Big Issue and many other magazines. His books are published by Nasty Little Press; the latest, The Vile Ascent of Lucien Gore and What The People Did, is a long poem about voter apathy and government duplicity. He has written and toured numerous poetry stage shows, including Luke Wright’s Cynical Ballads (‘Timely, patriotic, touching and consistently funny’ – The Scotsman). A documentary he made with filmmaker Zara Hayes, The Seven Ages of Love (Channel 4), was nominated for a Grierson Award. Luke hosts and co-programmes the Poetry Arena at Latitude Festival and also co-curates The Norwich Poetry Club. He lives in Bungay, Suffolk with his wife and son.
lukewright.co.uk
Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US in 1965. Since moving to London in 1987, she has been the organiser of the Terrible Beauty reading series at the Troubadour Coffee House, Reviews Editor of Poetry London magazine, and from 2000 to 2007, Programme Coordinator for The Poetry School. She currently works as a freelance tutor in creative writing. Her publications include Fun House (Slow Dancer Press, 1994) Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998), which was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize, Barnard’s Star (Enitharman, 2004) and Fetch (Salt Publishing, 2007). Her latest collection is The City with Horns (Salt Publishing, 2011). Her writing encompasses a wide range of ideas and subjects, but she is particularly interested in the relationship between poetry and visual art, specifically contemporary art. She has run a number of site-specific writing workshops which are concerned with poetry and place.
tamaryoseloff.com
James Brookes was born in 1986 and has lived in Sussex for most of the last 20 years. He studied at the University of Warwick and has been Senior Student Editor, then a Contributing Editor of The Warwick Review. His work has appeared in various places, including Poetry Review, Horizon Review, the Swedish journal Signum and on a church pew in Taunton, Somerset. In 2009 he received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. He was awarded a Hawthornden International Writing Fellowship in 2010. The English Sweats was published by Pighog Press in 2010.
jamesbrookes.org.uk
Claire Trévien‘s writing has been published in a variety of literary magazines including Under The Radar, Poetry Salzburg Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Warwick Review, Nth Position, and Fuselit. She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews, a website promoting independent presses. Her debut pamphlet, Low-Tide Lottery, was released this year from Salt Publishing. She is currently in the third year of a PhD at Warwick University.
clairetrevien.co.uk
