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Poetry in the Pub
Wednesday 29th September 7:30 for 8:00 pm, in The Six Bells
After her success last year, this year’s ‘Poetry in the Pub’ will be hosted by Clare Best.
Clare Best has always lived closely with words: she has been a bookbinder, a bookseller and an editor. She teaches creative writing at Brighton University and the Open University. Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies. Treasure Ground (HappenStance, 2009) brings together poems from a unique residency at Woodlands Organic Farm on the Lincolnshire Fens. Spoil, her first full collection, is about love and loss, female identity and the female body. ‘Exquisitely honed, sensuous poems… honest, unsentimental, resonant’ – Catherine Smith.
Robert Seatter has published two collections: On the Beach with Chet Baker and Travelling to the Fish Orchards (both from Seren); a third collection will follow in late 2010. Before that, he was also selected for inclusion in Anvil New Poets 3 (2000).
He has won many awards and nominations for his poetry including National Poetry Competition, London Poetry, Forward Poetry Prize, Tabla, and Housman Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in varied publications and magazines, as well as on TV and radio and even the London buses.
He lives in London where he works for the BBC, following earlier careers in publishing, acting and teaching.
‘A confident and accessible voice’ - Oxford Poetry
Janet Sutherland was raised on a dairy farm in Wiltshire, lived twenty years in London and now lives in Lewes. Her second collection Hangman’s Acre was published by Shearsman Books in 2009 of which David Morley said in Poetry Review “Elizabeth Bishop’s attentiveness of voice hangs over this whole collection”. Her work has appeared in many magazines including Poetry Review and Poetry Wales and anthologies including The Virago Book of Love Poetry ed. Wendy Mulford 1990 and The New British Poetry 1968-88 (1988) ed. Gillian Allnutt, Fred D’Aguiar, Ken Edwards, Eric Mottram. Paladin Poetry. She has read widely at venues in Brighton and London and the Ledbury Poetry Festival
John O’Donoghue is the author of two pamphlets, Letter To Lord Rochester (Waterloo Press 2004) and The Beach Generation (Pighog Press 2007). Brunch Poems was published by Waterloo Press in 2009. His memoir, Sectioned: A Life Interrupted was published by John Murray in Spring 2009.
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