Poetry Upstairs at The Melville
Centre for the Arts
Pen-Y-Pound, Abergavenny, Wales, NP7 5UD Phone: 01873 853167
2024 Reading Series
Tuesday 25th June 7pm £5
Entry
I will be reading with Abigail Parry and Gareth Writer-Davies. The event is organised by Ric Hool.
Robert
Sheppard [we are told] has been publishing poetry
since 1979, and he has two retrospective collections, Twentieth Century Blues (Salt 2008) and a selected poems History or Sleep (Shearsman 2015). He has
published collaborative work with Bob Cobbing, Patricia Farrell, Pete Clarke.
Robert is also a critic and an editor. Robert Sheppard lives in Liverpool.
Abigail
Parry’s poems have been set to music,
translated into Spanish and Japanese. She has won the Ballymaloe Prize, the
Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, Jinx (Bloodaxe) was shortlisted for the
Forward Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Her
second collection, I Think We're Alone
Now, is also published by Bloodaxe Books.
Gareth Writer-Davies was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2014 and 2017); commended in the Prole Laureate Competition (2015 and 2021) and Prole Laureate for 2017. He is a winner of the Wirral (note!) Festival Poetry Competition (2023) and publications include: Bodies (Indigo Dreams) The Lover's Pinch (Arenig Press). He was a Hawthornden Fellow.
