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October Revelations: #poetrymondays at the Troubadour

An evening of poetry readings by Richard Scott, Rebecca Perry, Hannah Sullivan and Lisa Kelly, plus 20 troubadours with new odes to autumn, and something autumnal from singer/guitarist Henry Fajemirokun.

 
Londoner Richard Scott has won both Wasafiri New Writing Prize & 2016 Michael Marks Poetry Award. Soho (Faber, 2018) is his debut collection & he teaches at Faber Academy.
 
Rebecca Perry has worked in theatre in Slovenia & edits online journal Poems in Which. Her first collection Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe, 2015) won the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.
 
Hannah Sullivan studied at Harvard, taught in California & is Assoc. Prof. of English at New College, Oxford. Her first collection Three Poems (Faber 2018) was awarded the TS Eliot Prize.
 
Freelance journalist Lisa Kelly is half-Danish & half-deaf. A Map Towards Fluency (Carcanet, 2019) follows pamphlets Bloodhound in 2012 & Philip Levine’s Good Ear.
 
Plus 20 autumnal odes — reflections on summer’s-end or winter’s coming-in, post-holiday blues, memories of back-to-school, odes to fallen leaves, toast-&-honey, nuts, apples, fireworks — especially written for this October celebration by Troubadour regulars including Digby Howard, Mark Huband, Oliver Comins, Nic Stringer, Tessa Anslow, Dino Mahoney, Karen Littleton, Rachel Donati, Alice Thurling, Mary Muir, Michael Harris, Diana Pooley, Bernadette Reed, Michelle Penn, Tim Richardson, Gillie Robic, Iain Whiteley, Lesley Sharpe, Alex Josephy, Jo Roach & Tim Waller.
Dates and times
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Mon 21 Oct 2019
Where
Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Troubadour Coffee House
263-267 Old Brompton Road
SW5 9JA
London
Pricing
£7