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The Poetry Inquisition

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“Poetry has really rather connived at its own irrelevance.”

Earlier this year, after taking part in the judging of the Forward Prize, Jeremy Paxman made some controversial comments about the state of poetry. Half jokingly, he suggested an “inquisition, in which poets would be called to account for their poetry and appear before a panel of ordinary people to explain why they chose to write about the particular subject they wrote about, and why they chose the particular form and language, idiom, the rest of it.”

So that’s what we’re doing.

The Poetry Inquisition is a night of poetry held to account. Every poet who reads – both open mic guests and the two featured poets – will face probing questions from the audience, and a good-natured but merciless Newsnight-style grilling by a panel of interrogators. The panel will change week to week but, as specified by Paxman, will always contain at least one “ordinary” person.

Come join us at Small White Elephant in Peckham Rye on Wednesday 10 December from 7.30pm! Arrive early to sign up for open mic.

25th February 2015 at 19:30

We're delighted to announce that our featured readers for this Wednesday will be Sarah Howe and John Clegg:

Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983, to an English father and Chinese mother. Her debut pamphlet of poems, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, was published in 2009 and her first full collection, Loop of Jade, is being published in May by Chatto & Windus. Alongside teaching Renaissance literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, she is the founding editor of Prac Crit, a journal of poetry and criticism.

John Clegg was born in 1986. His first collection, Antler, was published by Salt in 2012 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2013. In the same year, he completed a PhD thesis at Durham on the influence of Eastern European poetry and moved south to take up his current position as a bookseller at the London Review Bookshop.

Entry: Non-compulsory donation

Time: 7:30pm

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Small White Elephant

28 Choumert Road, London, se15 4se, GB

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