jo shapcott & adrian blamires
at the Artsbar
Thursday 10th December 2009 7:30 pm
Jo Shapcott Her Book:
Poems 1988-1998, collects poems from Electroplating the Baby (1988),
Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998).
Winner of the Commonwealth and Forward Prizes and the National Poetry Competition twice, Jo is president of
the Poetry Society and teaches on the MA at RHUL. Of
Mutability, will be published by Faber and Faber next summer.
Adrian Blamires debut collection, The Effect of Coastal
Processes (Two Rivers Press, 2005) was a Waterstone's ‘Best New Poetry’ selection and the title poem
was read on Radio 4's Poetry Please. Adrian teaches English in a sixth form college in Basingstoke. He attended
the Thin Raft, poetry workshop during the 1990s and a second Two Rivers collection is due in 2010.
Reading Entrance £5
Artsbar Café
Wellington Road, Wokingham, RG40 2AN
0118 977 5886
(2 minutes from Wokingham Station)