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Oxfam's flagship London book and music store presents its inaugural Poetry Reading Evening
SIX POETS FOR OXFAM
Duhig, Petit, Lumsden, Harsent, Khalvati, Swift
Wednesday July 21 2004, 7PM-9PM
Oxfam Books and Music, 91 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4RB (nearest tube Baker Street)
Admission free, donations gratefully accepted
In celebration of the unprecedented success of Oxfam's second-hand bookshop in Marylebone and in recognition of our diverse customer base, Oxfam Books and Music presents an evening in the company of six of the best and most entertaining poets in the UK. Representing a wide spectrum of voices, these poets share literary excellence and an ability to communicate with their audience, both on the page and in public readings. Join them for a sparkling summer evening of poetry, conversation, and wine.
The host for the evening, and first reader, will be Todd Swift. Now based in London having moved from Montreal to Europe in 1997, Todd is the author or editor of seven books of poetry, such as the highly popular 100 Poets Against the War, from Salt, Cambridge. He is the poetry editor of online magazine nthposition.
Mimi Khalvati has had five collections published by Carcanet, including Selected Poems in 2000 and most recently, The Chine. She is the founder and Coordinator of The Poetry School and co-editor of its second anthology of new writing, Entering the Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003).
David Harsent has published nine collections of poetry. His most recent book, Marriage (Faber, 2002) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize. He wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain and is currently working (also with Birtwistle) on a new opera.
Roddy Lumsden was born in Scotland. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 1997) was shortlisted for Forward and Saltire prizes. In 1999 he was "poet-in-residence" to the music industry and co-wrote The Message, a Poetry Society book on poetry and pop music. His latest book is Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004), out this July.
Pascale Petit's second collection, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. It won an Arts Council of England Writers' Award and a New London Writers' Award. She was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales, and is poetry editor of Poetry London. In 2004 she was selected by Mslexia magazine as one of the best ten women poets to emerge in the last decade; and was recently selected as one of the 20 "Next Generation Poets".
Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for 15 years in London, Yorkshire and Northern Ireland before becoming a freelance writer in 1994. Among the competitions he has won is the Poetry Society of Great Britain's National Poetry competition, which he has won twice. His first book, The Bradford Count (Bloodaxe, 1991), was chosen for the 'New Generation Poets'. His second, The Mersey Goldfish, (Bloodaxe, 1994), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and his third, Nominies (Bloodaxe, 1998), gained him an Arts Council Writer's Award. In 2001, Duhig also received a Cholmondeley Award.
Please contact Martin Penny to reserve seats: oxfammarylebone@hotmail Tel: 020 7487 3570.
All proceeds go to Oxfam Registered Charity No 202918
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