Four London Poets

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Come and enjoy an embarrassment of riches. Four poets (two born-and-bred Londoners; two welcome adoptees) who offer work which is variously witty, romantic, insightful, informed, mature and, most of all, communicative. All for your delight on a Saturday night at no cost whatsoever.

In more detail we offer:

Rosemary Norman's first full collection, Threats and Promises (Iron Press), was published in 1991 and her second, Italics (Shoestring Press), in 2010. Between came two pamphlets, Life on Mars and The Song of the Nobird (both Hearing Eye). Individual poems have appeared in prestigious magazines such as The Rialto, Ambit, Blade, Iron and Poetry London Newsletter. One poem, Lullaby, has had a career of its own, widely anthologised and set for GCSE. Rosemary works with video artist Stuart Pound using poems as soundtrack and/or image and some of their work can be viewed on her Vimeo page. In 2007 she won second prize in the National Poetry Competition for her poem The Hairdresser from Beirut.

Valeria Melchioretto is an award-winning poet who moved to London to study Drama and Fine Art. Back then the word austerity was in little use. Whilst working for a charitable organisation she has had the privilege to meet many published and aspiring poets on a daily basis who have come to shape both the capital's poetry establishment and anti-establishment. She has published two volumes of poetry: 'Podding Peas' (Hearing Eye) and 'The End of Limbo' (Salt) and has read at most London venues including the South Bank Centre and Buckingham Palace. She has represented Switzerland at the Poetry Olympics in 2012. She also publishes short stories, literary criticisms and has just finished her first novel.

Dónall Dempsey came to London in the mid-1980's, leaving behind a fledgling career as a performance poet in Ireland where he had performed on RTE with John Cooper Clarke and Paul Durcan, and had been Ireland's first poet in residence at a secondary school in Galway. He is guest host of PoetryJam in Richmond and
regular host of two monthly poetry nights in Guildford. He has recently read at the Edinburgh Fringe, the St Clementin Biennial Bilingual Festival in France, Fermoy International Festival, Cork, O'Bheal, Cork, the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Rhythm & Muse, Kingston, and the New Delhi Poetry Festival. His two collections are 'Being Dragged Across the Carpet by the Cat' and 'The Smell of Purple.'

Michael Wyndham was born in Hammersmith and bred in Acton/White City under the gothic shadow of Wormwood Scrubs. His work has included being a pest controller, chiefly in a misguided attempt to be Williams S. Burroughs, but in fighting the rats of the city's underbelly, he hoped to gain valuable insight into life as a poet. He is a regular on the London circuit, being featured at venues such as the Poetry Café and Torriano. He was runner-up in the Frogmore Press poetry competition and has recently been published by International Times, The Recusant, South Bank Poetry, Ariadne's Thread, Inclement and the Genius Floored anthology. He is currently working towards his first collection.

Contact:
07702 587777, grambuch@aol.com

Entry: Free

Time: 8:00pm