Five London Poets: TONIGHT, Friday May 4th

The Clare Hall Literary Society presents:

Five London Poets

Friday May 4th, 7.30 for 8.00pm (bar open at 7.30) Anthony Low Building, Clare Hall Collections & pamphlets will be on sale at the reading.

Simon Barraclough: from Yorkshire, a London Writer's Competition winner, published in such magazines as Poetry Review, The Manhattan Review, Time Out and the anthologies Graphic Poetry and In The Criminal's Cabinet. Debut collection forthcoming from Salt.

Isobel Dixon: South African poet, living in Cambridge and working in London as a literary agent. Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize (SA) for her collection Weather Eye and with a new collection 'A Fold in the Map', forthcoming from Salt this autumn. Also featured on Clive James' website and Poetry International.

Luke Heeley: from Lincolnshire, now London-based. Eric Gregory Award winner, published in the TLS, The Wolf and The Red Wheelbarrow, and the anthologies Reactions 4 (pen&inc press) and Phoenix New Writing (Heaventree Press).

Liane Strauss: prize-winning American poet, now teaching Poetry and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London and City Lit. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the 2007 Best New Poets Anthology (US), commended in the National Poetry Competition (UK) and published in Poetry Review, Hudson Review and Iowa Review.

Roisin Tierney: a Dubliner now living in Spain. Won a Bridport Prize in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Strokestown Prize in 2006. Published widely including The Virago Book of Christmas and Poems for a Better Future (Oxfam).