Please join us on Saturday 26 October 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians.

You will find all the information you need regarding visiting the IABF on their website here. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and CDs to sell, please note we are only able to accept cash payments.

You can read about the poets and musicians below:

Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of six collections: There was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square  Window (2009), Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Her awards include first prize in the UK National Poetry Competition and the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Both Through the Square Window and Parallax received the Irish Times Poetry Prize. She was the winner of the TS Eliot Prize in 2013, the Forward Prize in 2017 and was awarded the European Poet of Freedom Award in 2020. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. 

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a writer of both British and Ukrainian heritage. Her debut poetry collection Food for the Dead, published by Jonathan Cape, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2023 and is shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. She is currently an NWCDTP-funded PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University and is based in York.

Tim Tim Cheng

Tim Tim Cheng is a poet from Hong Kong, currently based between Glasgow and London. She is the author of Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023), which was one of the Poetry Society Books of the Year. Her collection The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) is forthcoming in October. She co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (VERVE 2023).  timtimcheng.com

Becky Langan

Photo credit: Colin Cunningham

Becky Langan is a percussive fingerstyle guitarist who employs a combination of techniques that explore the outermost reaches of the acoustic guitar.

In 2016, Becky was a semi-finalist on Sky Arts Guitar Star (Series 2) – a TV show which scoured the UK to discover a world class instrumental guitarist .