Friday 24 August, 1.15pm
Saturday 25 August, 1.15pm
The Walbrook Building
London EC4
Opposite Cannon Street Station
Penned in the Margins presents two pop-up lunchtime poetry events at The Developing City, an exhibition exploring London past, present and future in the heart of the City. Attendance is free and each reading lasts approximately 30 minutes.
Find out more about The Developing City.
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Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins and The Restructure (Salt Publishing, 2005-2012). He has recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive and written a ‘play-in-verse’ Shad Thames, Broken Wharf, which was performed at the London Word Festival and subsequently published by Penned in the Margins in 2010. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London, and teaches for The Poetry School.
“an elegy, an urban bucolic around the river and its Eastern banks”
– Culture Wars on Shad Thames Broken Wharf
Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. He is the author of How to Build a City (Salt Publishing, 2009) and The Terrors (Nine Arches, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. He has edited four anthologies, including City State: New London Poetry and the award-winning Adventures in Form. Former Poet in Residence at the Bishopsgate Institute, he received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He is currently working with climate change organisation Cape Farewell on ADRIFT, a year-long poetry project to explore London’s lost landscapes.
“Dark London history, dredged and interrogated, spits and fizzes with corrosive wit. Tom Chivers understands the risks he risks, the play in a taught rope.”
– Iain Sinclair
Info on the Developing City website
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Siddhartha Bose is a poet, playwright and performer based in Hackney Wick. He grew up in Mumbai and Kolkota, followed by a seven year itch in the US. He is the author of the poetry collection Kalagora (Penned in the Margins, 2010), and his work has appeared in anthologies from Bloodaxe Books and HarperCollins. Dubbed one of the ‘ten rising stars of British poetry’ by The Times, he is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His acclaimed debut one-man play, also called Kalagora, toured from 2010 to 2012, including a month-long run at Edinburgh Fringe. His most recent show was London’s Perverted Children at The Yard Theatre.
“Kalagora bestrides continents and celebrates cities as engines of creativity where dogs talk in hieroglyphs and where a man can be a moth.”
– Ian McMillan
Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. He is the author of How to Build a City (Salt Publishing, 2009) and The Terrors (Nine Arches, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. He has edited four anthologies, including City State: New London Poetry and the award-winning Adventures in Form. Former Poet in Residence at the Bishopsgate Institute, he received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He is currently working with climate change organisation Cape Farewell on ADRIFT, a year-long poetry project to explore London’s lost landscapes.
