Thursday 19 February – 7.00 pm
Keats House
10 Keats Grove, London NW3 2RR
Join us on 19 February 2015 at Keats House in Hampstead for an evening of poetry celebrating the Next Generation Poets 2014.
The event will feature performances from Daljit Nagra and Jane Yeh from the Next Generation Poets 2014. They will be joined on the night by special guests Pascale Petit, from the 2004 List, and London based up-and-coming poet, Alex MacDonald.
Tickets £6 (inc. complimentary drink)
Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield, and currently lives in London where he works as a teacher. His first collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. In 2008 he won the South Bank Show/Arts Council Decibel Award. His second collection, Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize in 2011. His last collection is Ramayana A Retelling, a tale over two thousand years old, which will be touring during 2014 and 2015.
Jane Yeh was born in America and educated at Harvard University. Her chapbook, Teen Spies, was published in 2003 by Metre Editions. Her first full-length collection, Marabou, was published by Carcanet in 2005 and shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh Festival poetry prizes. Her second collection, The Ninjas, was published by Carcanet in 2012. She has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in London and lectures in Creative Writing at the Open University.
Pascale Petit was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She has published six collections of poetry, four of which have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, most recently Fauverie (2014). She has received three awards from Arts Council England and two from the Society of Authors, and her poems have been translated into eighteen languages.
Alex MacDonald lives and works in London. He has poems published, or forthcoming, in Poetry London, 3:AM, The Quietus and Clinic. He hosted a series of readings at the V&A Museum on independent poetry publishers and was recently the Digital Poet in Residence for the Poetry School.
