Friday, October 7, 2011, 7pm, FREE
Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
EC1R 3GA
60 Farringdon Road
EC1R 3GA
An evening of poetry at the Free Word
Centre
Arvon and The Poetry
Business present an evening of poetry to launch the debut collections
of two Arvon/Jerwood 2009 mentees, Maitreyabandhu and Carole
Bromley. They will be joined by their mentor Mimi Khalvati.
Mimi Khalvati has published six collections
of poetry with Carcanet Press and her most recent book, The Meanest
Flower, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the
Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her work has been translated
into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 200.
Maitreyabandhu has won the
Keats-Shelley Prize, The Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and
The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet competition 2010. The Bond is
his winning pamphlet.
Carole Bromley has two pamphlets with
Smith/Doorstop (Unscheduled Halt, 2005, and Skylight, 2009). She has won first
prizes, in The Bridport and Yorkshire Open. A Guided Tour of the
Icehouse is her first full collection.
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