Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 8.30pm
Ram Jam Club
Kingston
Featuring guest poet Allison
McVety
Winner of The Poetry Business Book and
Pamphlet Competition 2006, Allison’s collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay
(Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize.
Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The Times and PN Review,
have been broadcast on BBC radio and appear in the Forward anthologies 2007 and
2008 and in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011. Her second collection, Miming
Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in 2010 and her poem, To the
Lighthouse, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition.
With music from singer-songwriter and
accordionist Hannah Rose Tristram.
Singer, dancer and musician, Hannah Rose
has been touring internationally with world music choirs Village Harmony and
Northern Harmony from the age of ten. She is a talented mult-instrumentalist,
working and playing as an accordionist, flautist, singer and poet.
She has led regular groups
including The Breath of Life Singers in West Sussex, the World Music Chorus and
The Wilful Choir in London. Hannah also runs Kripalu Yoga workshops and is
available for one-to-one yoga tuition.
Plus open mic and the chance to submit
poems and lyrics to the forthcoming R&M anthology
Email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk
to book a floorspot or for more information.
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