MARCH
Thursday 6th March 8pm
HIDDEN RIVER
Joogleberry Playhouse, Brighton
Donation of £3 recommended
Stephanie Norgate’s poetry credits include: Fireclay (1999 Smith/Doorstop, a prize winning pamphlet in the Poetry Business Competition) and a selection of poems in Oxford Poets 2000 (eds. Constantine, D., Lee, H. & O’Donoghue, B.) – PBS Recommendation. Individual poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines; and she has also published a full length collection, Calling From the Hidden River. She’s worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and now lectures at the University of Chichester where she runs the MA in Creative Writing.
Maggie Sawkins spent her childhood in Leigh Park, a large council housing estate north of Portsmouth. She began writing poetry at the age of nine after being inspired by her head teacher. Her first poems were published in Hampshire Poets when she was seventeen. In 2004 Maggie co-founded the popular Tongues & Grooves Poetry and Music Club in Southsea where she now lives with her husband, younger daughter and a growing menagerie. Flarestack published a pamphlet collection, Charcot’s Pet, in 2003. The Zig Zag Woman (Two Ravens Press) is her first full collection.
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