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The Faber Academy Poetry Evening

Faber Academy

£10.00

Description

Friday 20th May, 7pm. Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott host poetry readings with writers from the Faber Academy.

 

Detailed Description

Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield, and currently lives in Willesden where he works in a secondary school. His first collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. In 2008 he won the South Bank Show / Arts Council Decibel Award.

Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). She won this year’s Costa Book of the Year Award for her latest collection, Of Mutability (2010).

Jo and Daljit will host an evening of poetry reading with writers from the Faber Academy.

http://www.faberacademy.co.uk

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