Tuesday 28 October – 5.00 pm
University of Liverpool Centre for New & International Writing
School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX
Join us on 28 October 2014 at the University of Liverpool Centre for New & International Writing for an evening of poetry celebrating the Next Generation Poets 2014.
The event will feature performances from Melissa Lee-Houghton and Luke Kennard from the Next Generation Poets 2014. They will be joined by special guests Deryn Rees-Jones – from the 2004 Generation – and Liverpool-based young poet, Seán Hewitt.
Free event with wine reception.
Booking essential via Eventbrite.
Melissa Lee-Houghton was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester in 1982. Her first collection, A Body Made of You, was published by Penned In The Margins in 2011, and Beautiful Girls was published in 2013 and was a PBS Recommendation. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in literary magazines such as Poetry Salzburg, The New Writer, Magma and Tears in the Fence. Her poem, ‘Jim’, was recently included in Starry Rhymes, a chapbook published by Read This Press. She is a regular reviewer for The Short Review.
Luke Kennard is a poet and writer of fiction. He won an Eric Gregory award in 2005 for his first collection of prose poems, The Solex Brothers (Stride Books), and his second collection of poetry,The Harbour Beyond the Movie (Salt, 2007), made him the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. His criticism has appeared in Poetry London and The Times Literary Supplement, and his first fiction publication, Holophin (Penned in the Margins, 2012), won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2013. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham and his latest collection, A Lost Expression, was published by Salt in 2012.
Deryn Rees-Jones has published five collections of poetry, the latest of which, Burying the Wren, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize in 2012. She edited both a collection of essays on Modern Women Poets and an accompanying anthology, and was the judge for the 2010 National Poetry Competition.
Seán Hewitt has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review and PN Review, amongst many others. He is currently working on a pamphlet collection with the support of Arts Council England.
