Malika Booker (bio below) will be tutor for a Zoom poetry workshop on Saturday 7 November at 10.30-12.30.
The fee for this workshop is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once David has confirmed your place payment can be made using the PayPal button below:
Workshop Payment £20
Malika Booker
Photo credit: Siro Micheroli
Malika Booker is a British poet and theatre maker of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. And the founder of the writers collective, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her pamphlet Breadfruit, (flippedeye, 2007) received a Poetry Society recommendation and her poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She is published with the Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shirein The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3:Your Family: Your Body (2017) and her poem Nine Nights, first published in The Poetry Review in autumn 2016, was shortlisted for Best Single Poem in the 2017 Forward Prize.
Malika received her MA from Goldsmiths University and has recently begun a PhD at the University of Newcastle. She was the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds University, the first British poet to be a fellow at Cave Canem and the inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2020 Booker received a Cholmondeley Award for outstanding contribution to poetry.
Malika hosts and curates New Caribbean Voices, Peepal Tree Press’s literary podcast, and is currently a poetry Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Our first ever Zoom workshop will be with Anthony Anaxagorou, (bio below), the subject is ‘Editing Poetry: Thinking Beyond the Stanza’. It takes place on Saturday 31 October and runs from 10.30-12.30.
The fee for this workshop is a special introductory price of £10. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once David has confirmed your place payment can be made using the PayPal button below:
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.
His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.
He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.
His forthcoming book How to Write It will be published on 15 October. It covers technical aspects of poetry & prose + looks at the British education system, the publishing industry, race & class, prize culture, magazine submissions, manuscripts, internet along with self-publishing, live events, agents & ways to sustain a career as a writer in the 21st century. You can order a copy below:
The Reemergence Prize is now closed. Thank you and good luck to everyone who entered.
As you all know we have been unable to stage any events at the Whitworth since February and this situation is likely to continue into the new year, so we thought if we can’t see you all in person we could instead invite you to write some new work, and with this in mind we are opening up a themed prize that will be judged by the Poets & Players team (all entries will be judged anonymously). This prize isn’t to replace our annual competition, for which we have already lined up an excellent judge (to open towards the end of the year). But in the meantime why not give this one a go, there’s a modest entry fee of £2 per poem (3 for £5) and we would really love to read your interpretations of our theme.
THEME: REEMERGENCE
PRIZE: £300
CLOSING DATE: 16 NOVEMBER 2020
The subject is REEMERGENCE (reemerge/reemerging) and you may interpret this in any way you wish. The winning poet will receive a payment of £300 plus the opportunity to read their poem at a Poets & Players event (date to be confirmed). Please find below an Entry Form together with the rules.
The winner will be informed by Wednesday 16 December 2020 and will be invited to read at an event in 2021 (date to be confirmed). If you have not been notified by 16 December 2020, we are afraid you have not been successful.
RULES AND OTHER INFORMATION
The Prize is open to anyone over the age of 16, except for members of the Poets & Players committee.
Poems must be in English, typewritten in single space, font size 12. Please begin each poem on a new page but multiple entries should be contained in a single document.
Poems are to be written on the theme ‘reemergence’ (reemerge/reemerging), but can be in any style or form. All submissions must be the author’s own original work. They should not have appeared anywhere before, online or in print. Please do not submit poems that are currently under consideration elsewhere.
Maximum line length for individual poems is 40 lines (excluding title). Please do not include photographs or illustrations.
No changes can be made to poems once submitted and we regret that we are unable to provide feedback or make any refunds.
You may submit as many poems as you wish, accompanied by the appropriate payment and Entry Form/s.
Please note that all entries must reach us by Monday 16 November 2020, 12 midnight (GMT). Entries arriving after this date will not be considered.
ALL entries must be accompanied by a completed Entry Form (see the link below):
ENTER BY EMAIL
ALL entries must be accompanied by a completed Entry Form (see the link below):
Please email the completed Prize Entry Form and poems to reemergence2020@gmail.com. All email entries will be acknowledged.
Please ensure that all poems are sent as a single attachment and not in the body of the email. Please use your name as the title of the document (poems and Entry Form can be in the same document but must be on separate pages). If you are submitting more than one poem you should include them all in the same attachment but please ensure pages are numbered and start each poem on a new page. Single spaced and font size 12. Please save documents as doc or docx.
You may enter as many poems as you wish but please ensure you add all poem titles to the Entry Form/s.
Please do not include your name or other identifying information on the same page as the poem/s. All poems will be judged anonymously.
Closing date is 16 November 2020 (entries may be submitted up to 12 midnight (GMT) on this date).
Entry fee is £2 per poem or 3 poems for £5. Payment to be made by PayPal. IMPORTANT please include the PayPal reference number on the Entry Form.
Single poem £2
Three poems £5
CHECKLIST: Completed Entry Form including PayPal reference; poems on separate sheets (with no identifying information).
COPYRIGHT
The winner retains copyright of their poem, however, we would hope to receive permission to make a video recording of the winner reading at the awards ceremony for our website, and to publish the winning poem on our website and/or in the Whitworth Art Gallery.
Each year Poets & Players commission poets to write on a subject that we think is relevant that year and also that has potential to produce a variety of responses. This year we invited poets David Wheatley, Mary Jean Chan, Jane Burn and Isaiah Hull to write on the theme ‘Altered Nature’. The commissioned poets produced a wonderful range of poems and we are grateful for their work.
As the Covid-19 situation escalated it was clear that the poets and our audience wouldn’t be able to gather as usual at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. The date for our event was today, World Poetry Day, and although we can’t all be together in person we are pleased to be able to share the poems with you online along with a couple of readings kindly provided by the poets. Here are the poems:
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published four collections of poetry with Gallery Press and, more recently, The President of Planet Earth with Carcanet. He has also edited the poetry of Samuel Beckett for Faber and Faber, and written an academic study, Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave, 2015). He has reviewed widely for the TLS, Guardian, LRB and other journals, and lives with his family in rural Aberdeenshire.
MARY JEAN CHAN
Note: this poem was written before the arrival of Covid-19 in the UK.
Altered Nature
The birds had their tongues tied to silver strings as they hung mid-air in silence. I was kneeling on the wet earth, crying out. A disembodied voice informed me that nectar was being slowly harvested from their throats, that this was the only way. Heat from their flailing bodies pressed my eyes into my skull. I tried to hold myself together in the dream but could not. Once awake, I could not feel tender. The brutality of all architecture stunned me wherever I looked. What were we – as a species – doing? I finally summoned the will to write Life on my to-do list but kept postponing the task. I had been dreaming of the dying, because I could not ignore the news from home, country not so far from the heart. This viral uncertainty keeping me afraid of intimacy. I did not want to touch what others had touched, feared any public surface. Even the air was menacing, invisible droplets omnipresent. A persistent cough soon developed, as if to taunt me. My father, a rheumatologist, texts to say he is well, reminds me that he went through the SARS epidemic and never took a day off work. I have inherited this stubborn, Calvinist ethic. Today, I return to where breath feels possible. My therapist asks me: What do you want? I think to myself: mother’s gaze / straight gaze
/male gaze / white gaze… I am ashamed to confess that I want to be reborn as the brother, the beloved son, the future patriarch. I want to see this torso in a different light, beam on it a kinder gaze as I wait for something to give. I read a poet’s words: Mostly,
we do not fail to go on living. There is fire on the streets of a city I still love and fire in the earth’s lungs as the hour ticks on. Had I simply imagined this intimate scene: the mother lying prostrate at the feet of her child, begging for a miracle, or was it the other way around…
Mary Jean Chan is a London-based poet from Hong Kong. She is an editor of Oxford Poetry and a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University. She came Second in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, and won the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her collection’s title poem. Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019). Her collection Flèche won the Costa Poetry Prize 2019.
JANE BURN
The Fortingall Yew
I was here before your modern Gods. Before the chanted faith of congregations I was my own psalm – young and green I held my plush against cathedrals of ascetic sky, let the wind use
the stave of my branches to write its own hymns. Once I was a seed, fallen and stripped of my fat, red flesh. I felt the call of soil and broke my nut-brown shell, cast tiny threads to moor my beginning.
Around me, you raised up homes of daub as I raised myself, wattled a crown upon my own head. You traded wildflowers for crop, fingered the earth for twisted bulbs of ore, coddled them in flame
and cast an Age of Metal in the crucible’s molten eye. You learned to make better blades. I saw the tombs you built, how you blessed each cist with hoards of wealth. You turned your skill to iron
and streams ran with rust – put keen axe to wood, went from scraping shallow lines with simple ard to deeply wounding plough, swelled the acres with grain, bent the gentle animals to your will. You saw yourselves
as flowers, plunged your cloth in mordant baths, stole the bright of madder, woad and weld, blossomed with posies of gold and jewels. You fell in love with wheels and I have watched these circles orbit
like planets in galaxies of smoke, just as I have watched the moon turning on the axle of night. I have seen too much of your war. The air has carried strange birds who blot a shadow across the light. This land
has known blood. Is full of ghosts. Now is our permanent autumn of plastic leaves. They fall wherever people are. This is the Age of Nylon and its fruit seems to come with polyester pith. For aeons past I watched
you people spread, swell as I have from sapling to bough. I watched you wither, saw your skin corrupt, warped as my own bark. I saw you die yet I used no trick to stay evergreen. No chemical cream, so magic soap
has granted me this long-lived gift. I stay strong with only basic need – my underground veins seek a little rain, my flora as allowance of sun. Here I remain, rooted into your bones, anchorite still, warding this church
that has grown at my eroded side. I sense the tilt of your standing stones, graved with faded sentiment and half-forgotten names. The weather around me has started to speak in unforgiving tongues. I am wedded to time –
I wear its eternity of rings, though I cleft beneath the weight of years. Each splinter of me has drunk your poison in and hankered for clean air. My needles lift like tiny fingers. I point them into the unknown.
Jane Burnlives with her family for eight months of the year in a self-sustained wooden cottage on the Northumberland border which they fully restored using almost wholly reclaimed or recycled materials. Her love of nature is reflected in her poems which have been published in many magazines including Poethead, The Rialto, Iota Poetry, Under the Radar, Crannog, Strix and Butcher’s Dog to name a few. Her work has appeared in anthologies from The Emma Press, Valley Press, Seren, Fairacre Press and Beautiful Dragons. Her poems have been placed, shortlisted and longlisted in thirty-eight national and international poetry competitions and have been nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prize.
ISAIAH HULL
Altered Nature
A beehive of queens is never peaceful No yellow equals black is regal Regicidal She might sting you many times While listening to gasoline Waiting for the match to fall I recall you Skinning me a tangerine That was all Citric acid Neck and neck Nazarene with Indigos in inky fashion Nectar on my nose Honey on my honesty i didn’t panic You can’t end me with wicker man in cinematics She stings my phone on my way home Hands in holes about to close I lost a friend in you so now revenge is due? Send him through she says I knew I’d end up here I say ‘so you have chosen fear Over growing?, don’t you dare! I held you dear How come your poison won’t compare Hocum, mares, woe comes paired!’ In holding cells the wax implodes in air How are you coping? Scared I lost my vision overnight and woke impaired New orders from Her Majesty are ‘Poke him where the poem wears!’
Isaiah Hullis a noir writer from Old Trafford, exploring and challenging the extremities of self with image, word and soul whether on page or stage.
We are pleased to reveal the names of the winners and commended poets chosen by judge Sinéad Morrissey.
Winners
First Prize:– – Rob Miles, ‘Moon’ Second Prize:-.. Natalie Rees, ‘Little House’ Third Prize:– –Luke Allan, ‘Lemon ode’
Commended Poets
Rod Whitworth, ‘Winter 1947, Our Yard’ Ken Evans, ‘The Mortification of the Flesh’ Susie Wilson, ‘Paper Chase’ Connor Owen, ‘Birdwatcher’
First Prize: Rob Miles for his poem ‘Moon’
Rob Miles is from Devon and lives in West Yorkshire. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. Rob has won or been runner up in various international journal and festival competitions. Some of Rob’s first places include the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, and the Gingko/Resurgence Ecopoetry Prize, judged by Jo Shapcott and Imtiaz Dharker.
Moon
Some bad amateur maths pins it at blinking distance. A hackneyed backlight design for antlers. Salty ghost sucking crustily on the veins of a tree.
Chimneys giving it the finger get met by nothing so tough in its serenity. There’s no face on this pick-pocketed fossil, but a face
swallowing a face because no final face has ever been achieved. It will take much more than a few kitchen windows to explain. Stare
hard enough through a kettle’s breath and the aura off its rocky iridescence is sticky tape going rogue: ambiguous attachments, clear
commitment issues, now you see it, now… Found on baby blue, welcome back as that nightmare button thought lost in a cot. Singular mother
of all mothers of pearl. Floating speck on the retina of the world. Eclipses fixed with a quick once over at the opticians. Slingshot
chalk. Ancient castle moat igniter. Tide-teaser. Sliced extrusion of seaside rock, blank at both ends but all the way through saying moon.
Sinéad Morrissey’s comments: It seems almost impossible to write a good poem about the moon these days, and yet this writer has done exactly that. Like a stick of seaside rock, this virtuosic poem offers fresh perspectives on our planet’s most poetry-honoured satellite all the way through, and is full of textured grit and sonic wordplay.
Second Prize: Natalie Rees for her poem ‘Little House’
Natalie Rees is an Irish writer living in Bradford where she runs a Play & Creative Arts Therapy practice. She has been a prizewinner in the Penfro (2018) and Flambard (2017) poetry competitions and has published with various UK magazines. Her debut pamphlet is forthcoming later this year with Calder Valley Press.
Little House
Laura Ingles, with your mousey braids and plaid smocks. With your sister, Mary, who was prettier and towed the puritan line, while you couldn’t help but involve yourself in the entanglements of your late nineteenth-century agrarian community in ways that produced perfect moral outcomes, such as Nellie Olsen in her Quaker best being pulled by her blonde ringlets into a pond because she was too self-aggrandising when deferring to her family’s sweet-shop-cum-hardware-store mercantile lifestyle.
Laura Ingles, I turned the top shelf of my plywood wardrobe into your mid-western attic bedroom, and sneaked up matches to read my Bible by paraffin lamp made out of a used Nutella jar and tea light. I craved your wholesome life, so safe and contained. If only we could all skip around swinging packed lunches in tin pails, wearing starched cotton dresses with white aprons, everything in my eight-year-old life would be okay.
Laura Ingles, I spent Sunday afternoons fantasising your father Charles would step out of the screen into my living room, and pinch my cheek, and call me Half-Pint, his eyes meeting mine with all the twinkle of a man who can hitch a wagon and work a water mill by hand. Who would always happen to be behind the next corner the precise moment I needed a paternal figure to soak my shame into the metallic sweetness of his flannel shirt.
Laura Ingles, even now I classify my personal timeline as life Before Laura and life After Laura.
Sinéad Morrissey’s comments: This poem is composed of four direct addresses to Laura Ingles, with a whole world conjured in between. Funny, wry, self-deprecating and linguistically exuberant, “Little House” offers a re-run of a much-loved television series via unforgettable phrases and capacious syntax.
Third Prize:–Luke Allan for his poem ‘Lemon ode’
Luke Allanis a poet, editor and designer. Former managing editor at Carcanet and PN Review, he is currently poetry editor at Partus Press and the literary journal Pain, and director of Studio Lamont. He studied at UEA and the University of Oxford. His poems are published in the TLS, Oxford Poetry, the anthology New Poetries VII and elsewhere.
Sinéad Morrissey’s comments: A gorgeous concrete poem in the shape of a lemon which conveys this fruit’s sharp, sensuous appeal to our touch, our sight, and our hearing in taut language and fruitful similes. The final comparison to owls is both unexpected and exactly right and seals this poem’s achievements beautifully.
We are pleased to host a workshop with Sinéad Morrissey on Saturday 4 April 2020, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or by using the PayPal button below:
Workshop Payment £20
Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey has published six collections of poetry: 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 the Irish Times Poetry Now Award (2009, 2013) and the T S Eliot Prize (2013). In 2016 she received the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On Balance was awarded the Forward Prize in 2017. She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate (2013-2014) and is currently Director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts at Newcastle University.
A free poetry and music event at the Whitworth Art Gallery on 21 March 2020 (2.30-4.00).
This is our annual commission event; poets David Wheatley, Mary Jean Chan, Isaiah Hull and Jane Burn have been invited to participate in a poetry commission ‘Altered Nature’.
As 21st March is #WorldPoetryDay Manchester City of Literature will be live streaming some of our readings and also holding a short tree planting ceremony immediately after the event which you are all invited to, it will be held just outside in Whitworth Park to celebrate setting down roots for poetry in Manchester. There will also be readings from poets John McAuliffe and Aisha Mirza.
Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
David Wheatley
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published four collections of poetry with Gallery Press and, more recently, The President of Planet Earth with Carcanet. He has also edited the poetry of Samuel Beckett for Faber and Faber, and written an academic study, Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave, 2015). He has reviewed widely for the TLS, Guardian, LRB and other journals, and lives with his family in rural Aberdeenshire.
Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan is a London-based poet from Hong Kong. She is an editor of Oxford Poetry and a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University. She came Second in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, and won the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her collection’s title poem. Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019). Her collection Flèche won the Costa Poetry Prize 2019.
Isaiah Hull
Isaiah Hull is a noir writer from Old Trafford, exploring and challenging the extremities of self with image, word and soul whether on page or stage.
Jane Burn
Jane Burn lives with her family for eight months of the year in a self-sustained wooden cottage on the Northumberland border which they fully restored using almost wholly reclaimed or recycled materials. Her love of nature is reflected in her poems which have been published in many magazines including Poethead, The Rialto, Iota Poetry, Under the Radar, Crannog, Strix and Butcher’s Dog to name a few. Her work has appeared in anthologies from The Emma Press, Valley Press, Seren, Fairacre Press and Beautiful Dragons. Her poems have been placed, shortlisted and longlisted in thirty-eight national and international poetry competitions and have been nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prize.
The Chuva Guitar Duo
The Chuva Guitar Duo was founded in 2018 by Manchester-based guitarists Rafael Onyett and Borna Kuca. The duo studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of the internationally renowned classical guitarist Craig Ogden. Since commencing their studies at the college, the duo have performed across the UK, at venues including the Bury Parish Church, Instituto Cervantes and the Royal Northern College of Music.
Duo Chuva is also part of a larger, established collective that collaborate with professional dancers – the Chuva Collective. The collective offers exciting performances of live music and dance, adding a unique twist to some of the more celebrated works of classical and Latin music.
We are pleased to host a workshop with David Wheatley on Saturday 21 March 2020, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or by using the PayPal button below:
Workshop Payment £20
David Wheatley
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published four collections of poetry with Gallery Press and, more recently, The President of Planet Earth with Carcanet. He has also edited the poetry of Samuel Beckett for Faber and Faber, and written an academic study, Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave, 2015). He has reviewed widely for the TLS, Guardian, LRB and other journals, and lives with his family in rural Aberdeenshire.
Free event at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Saturday 22 February at 2.30-4.00. Everyone welcome. All areas of the Gallery are accessible and there are several parking bays on Denmark Road for disabled visitors.
J O Morgan
J. O. Morgan is the author of six books, each a single, book-length poem. His works have been shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the T.S.Eliot Prize, with his most recent book Assurances (2018) also winning the Costa Award for Poetry. His forthcoming work, The Martian’s Regress (due March 2020) is underpinned by aspects of ecology and migration, as well as the long-term future of the human race.
Maria Stepanova with Sasha Dugdale (translator)
Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and two books of essays. She has been awarded several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her book In Memory of Memory is a book-length study in the field of cultural history. It won Russia’s Big Book Award in 2018 and will be published in English by New Directions in the US and Fitzcarraldo in the UK in 2020. Her collection of poems War of the Beasts and the Animals will be published in English by Bloodaxe in 2020.
Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale has published four collections of poems with Carcanet, most recently Joy in 2017 which was a PBS Choice. The title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016. She is a Russian translator and is currently working on translations of the Russian poet Maria Stepanova to be published by Bloodaxe and Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2020. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and poet-in-residence at St John’s College, Cambridge (2018-2020).
Due to unforeseen circumstances Phil France has had to cancel but we have an excellent replacement:
Caoilfhionn Rose
Caoilfhionn (pronounced Keelin) Rose is a singer, songwriter and producer from Manchester. Emerging from a diverse music scene, she ties together remnants of Manchester’s musical past with its evolving present. She has collaborated with musicians from around the world and is perhaps best known for her work with Vini Reilly of Durutti Column: Collaborating on four songs on The Durutti Column – Chronicle LX:XL album.
Her debut album Awaken was released in October 2018 on Gondwana Records. A deeply collaborative recording, co-produced by Matthew Halsall, Caoilfhionn and members of the band it is a rich tapestry that draws on folk, psychedelia and subtle electronica influences to produce something expansive, fragile and experimental.
We are pleased to host a workshop with J O Morgan on Saturday 22 February 2020, 10.30-12.30 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or by using the PayPal button below:
Workshop Payment £20
J O Morgan
J. O. Morgan is the author of six books, each a single, book-length poem. His works have been shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the T.S.Eliot Prize, with his most recent book Assurances (2018) also winning the Costa Award for Poetry. His forthcoming work, The Martian’s Regress (due March 2020) is underpinned by aspects of ecology and migration, as well as the long-term future of the human race.
Poets & Players 