Poetry Night – Thursday 26th September 7pm, with Helen Ivory, Martin Figura and Rosie Jackson
To book please Tel 01308 281110 0r book online through Poetry Space
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On September 26th we welcome three award winning poets to the cafe for a wonderful evening of poetry.
£5 admission to cover our costs.
Refreshments available to buy.
The reading will take place in our lovely orangery.
Martin Figura’s collection and show Whistle were shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and won the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show. Shed (Gatehouse Press) and Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine (Cinnamon Press) were both published in 2016. In 2021 he was Salisbury NHS Writer in Residence; the resulting pamphlet My Name is Mercy (Fair Acre Press) won a national NHS award. A second pamphlet from Fair Acre Press Sixteen Sonnets for Care came out in October 2022. His new collection The Remaining Men was published by Cinnamon Press in March 2024.
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her sixth Bloodaxe Books collection Constructing a Witch, is forthcoming in September 2024. She edits Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches creative writing online for the UEA/NCW. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is published by KFS, and chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City by SurVision. She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Croatian and Greek for Versopolis. Wunderkammer: New and Selected Poems (2023) was published in the US by MadHat Press.
Rosie Jackson is a poet and creative writing tutor living in Teignmouth, Devon. Born in Yorkshire, she grew up in the mining Midlands, has degrees from Warwick and York, and taught at various universities including East Anglia, Nottingham Trent and West of England before going free-lance. Widely published, Her latest collection is Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023). Other works include Light Makes it Easy (2022), Aloneness is a Many-headed Bird (with Dawn Gorman, 2020), Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline (with Graham Burchell, 2020), The Glass Mother: A Memoir (2016).
Rosie has won many awards, including Commended in the National Poetry Competition 2022, 1st prize Teignmouth 2021, (joint) 1st prize Hedgehog Press 2020, 1st prize Poetry Space 2019, 1st prize Wells 2018, 1st prize Stanley Spencer Competition 2017. She was a Hawthornden fellow in 2017, nominated for the Pushcart prize in 2021, and is on the team of Poetry Teignmouth.
Kim Moore: ‘There is a restless energy and a searching intelligence at work here – creating startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the historical and the contemporary.’
Moniza Alvi: ‘These are rare, nourishing poems, open and vulnerable, spiritually aware and with an acute sense of beauty and struggle.’
Bel Mooney: ‘She is a rare poet of transcendence who expresses the inexplicable with grace.’