Poetry reading at The Corner House

I'm reading at The Corner House Arts Centre this evening in Surbiton on the theme of remembrance. Doors open at 7.30 and the poetry readings begin at 8.00.

There is a £4.00 entry fee and I think that includes cheese and biscuits.

Leonard Cohen

'There is a crack in everything

that's how the light gets in.'

and a recent article / interview from the New Yorker

The Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2016

I was at The Troubadour for the announcement of The Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2016 last night. We heard the prize winning and commended poems as well as judges reports from Jane Yeh and Glyn Maxwell.

Some of the poems that really stood out for me in the evening included

Balloons by Betty Thompson, from Co. Wexford, Ireland

Ode to an Octopus by Catherine Temma Davidson, from London

Writing Him Out by Elizabeth Parker, from Bristol

and Flight,by Giles Goodland, also from London


You can read the Glyn Maxwell's and Jane Yeh's report and read the winning poems here.