welcome

from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe

Join us as Troubadour International Poetry Prize winners/commendeds Zoom in from, this year, Britain, Ireland, US, Canada & Australia (see below) along with judges, poets Mona Arshi (Cambridge) & Tom Sleigh (New York), for a celebratory prize-night reading on Tue 26th March at 8pm!

 

classes & courses

  • fri 24 may—sat 13 jul, £280: between the lines #17 – focus on form#2, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • fri 16 feb—sat 6 apr, £280: between the lines #16, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 11 feb—sat 13 apr, £280: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 4 feb—sun 7 apr, £280: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • recent
  • sun 7 jan—sat 9 mar, £280: root & branch: the enchantment of trees: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 5 jan—sat 24 feb, £280: between the lines #15 – focus on form#1, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 15 oct—sat 16 dec, £280: solitary spaces: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series on solitude, with anne-marie fyfe
  • fri 27 oct—sat 16 dec, £280: between the lines #14, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with cahal dallat
  • sun 24 sep—sat 25 nov, £280: the avian eye: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 3 sep—sat 4 nov, £280: home truth: architecture & longing: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe
  • sun 8 oct, 2.30-5pm: land of heart’s desire: wb yeats literary walk with cahal dallat for wb yeats bedford park project
  • sun 23 jul—sat 23 sep: taking a walk: the poetry of footfall: 9-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe

See full details of classes and workshops

readings

  • tue 26 mar, 8pm, free, online, troubadour international poetry prize night with judges mona arshi & tom sleigh, & 2023 prizewinners!

See full details of poetry readings

next event

tue 26 mar, 8pm, free, online, troubadour international poetry prize night with judges mona arshi & tom sleigh, & 2023 prizewinners!

Join us as Troubadour International Poetry Prize winners/commendeds Zoom in from, this year, Britain, Ireland, US, Canada & Australia (see below) along with judges, poets Mona Arshi (Cambridge) & Tom Sleigh (New York), for a celebratory prize-night reading!

  • First Prize, £2,000, Traceries, Jennifer Harrison, Windsor, Victoria, Australia
  • Second Prize, £1000, A child’s Christmas in alcohol, Simon Walsh, Brattleboro VT, USA
  • Third Prize, £500, Zebra haworthia, Jane Wilkinson, Norwich

Commended poems:

  • The King’s Raven, Afra Kingdon, Northam, Devon
  • The Influencer’s Prayer, Anne Casey, Northbridge NSW, Australia
  • Generational Trauma, Bronagh Mallon, Belfast
  • Zulu, Catherine Edmunds, Bishop Auckland, Durham
  • This is also true, Charlotte Salkind, London
  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Deb O’Rourke, Toronto, Canada
  • Sometimes Life, Deveraux Baker, Mendocino CA, USA
  • The Ilium, Diana Valk, Surbiton, Surrey
  • Landscape with inner child, Jane Lovell, Lynton, Devon
  • Dust, Jane Williams, South Launceston, Tasmania
  • hostage situation, Kate Kruimink, Cygnet, Tasmania
  • Five Sleep Potions for Troubled Nights, Leah Larwood, Plumstead, Norfolk
  • my mother, wearing a pencil skirt, in a meadow, Liz McSkeane, Dublin
  • Olly and Pepper are safe, Martyn Crucefix, London
  • Calling on the New House, Mick Wood, London
  • Sharing a Koch with You, Nicky Melville, Edinburgh
  • No More Wind, Peter Ross, Honiton, Devon
  • The House Where Benjamin Zephaniah Didn’t Live, Sallie Durham, Lewes, East Sussex
  • Mary Shelley’s Babies, Stephanie Green, Edinburgh
    plus readings & judges’s comments from this year’s judges
  • Mona Arshi worked as a Human Rights lawyer at Liberty before starting to write poetry: her collection, Small Hands, won the 2015 Forward Prize, her poems have featured in Poems on the Underground, was recently commissioned to write a programme on The Odyssey for BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week & she is Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her latest poetry collection Dear Big Gods (Pavilion Poetry, 2019), was followed by her debut novel, Somebody Loves You, in 2021.
  • Tom Sleigh’s ten poetry collections include House of Fact, House of Ruin, Station Zed &, just published, The King’s Touch (Graywolf, Feb 2022): he is the author of the essay collections The Land between Two Rivers & Interview with a Ghost. A Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College (City University of New York), Tom lives in Brooklyn, & during the last ten years, has also worked as a journalist in Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Kenya, Iraq, & Libya.

free online event, numbers limited, advance booking only,
email info@coffeehousepoetry.org & Zoom link will be forwarded

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