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Poetry Review Winter Launch

POETRY REVIEW WINTER LAUNCH: Everything In Its Season, with Fleur Adcock and Sam Riviere.

Join us to celebrate the launch of the winter issue of Poetry Review 'Everything In Its Season' at The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH from 6.30pm on Wednesday 18th January. There will be readings from Fleur Adcock and Sam Rivere, who both have work featured in this issue of Poetry Review. Tickets available on the door.

Fleur Adcock was born in 1934 in New Zealand, and has lived in London since 1963. After working as a librarian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office she became a full-time freelance writer in 1979. Her first poetry collection, Eye of the Hurricane, was published in New Zealand in 1964, and since then she has written over ten more collections. Her Poems 1960-2000 was published by Bloodaxe, who also published her most recent collection, Dragon Talk, in 2010. Her poetry has received numerous awards, in both the UK and New Zealand, and she won a Cholmondeley Award in 1976. She was awarded an OBE in 1996.

Sam Riviere was born in 1981, and started writing poetry while he was at the Norwich School of Art and Design. He did his Masters degree in poetic practice at Royal Holloway, won the Eric Gregory Award in 2009, and is one of the Faber pamphlet poets. He co-edits the periodical anthology Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives, and is working on a multimedia poetry project called 81 Austerities. Sam’s translation of Mandelstam’s ‘Tristia’ was commended in the Stephen Spender Prize 2011.

Tickets available on the door:
£8 full price
£6 concessions
£4 Poetry Society members