The Troubadour

Coffee House Poetry Features: Seren Books Editor Amy Wack & Poetry Wales Editor Zoe Skoulding

Programmed Event - 8th February 2010

Doors 8pm
Tickets £7 concessions £6, season tickets 30% off

Seren Books editor Amy Wack & Poetry Wales editor Zoe Skoulding introduce nine of the press's poets and/or magazine's contributors:

- Next Gen poet Pascale Petit - her 5th collection "What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo" (Seren, 2010) will appear in May 2010;

- fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, Patrick McGuinness (forthcoming, "Jilted City", Carcanet);

- Siobhan Campbell ("Cross-Talk", Seren, 2009), prizewinner in Troubadour, National & Mslexia competitions;

- Kathyrn Simmonds – "Sunday at the Skin Launderette" (Seren) won the 2008 Forward First Collection prize;

- Oriel College (Oxford) lecturer James Methven, who won the inaugural Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize with "Precious Asses" (2009);

- Samantha Wynne Rhydderch whose "Not In These Shoes" (Picador) was shortlisted for the 2009 Wales Book of the Year;

- Meirion Jordan – "Moonrise" (Seren) was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward First Collection prize;

- Zoe Skoulding, a Research Fellow at Bangor University - latest collection "Remains of a Future City" (Seren, 2008);

- and Carol Rumens, whose 15th collection, "De Chirico's Threads" is due from Seren in June.

For info, booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries,
t: 020-8354 0660, e: coffpoetry@aol.com w: www.coffeehousepoetry.org or write to Anne-Marie Fyfe, Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON, W4 1ZP

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