I am sharing this early to give our poets in Brent a chance to write a poem, ot choose a favourite poem, to share alongside published poets at an Open Mic on Thursday 5th March.
From Poetry in Wembley: Roots
Join us for a festival of Poetry at Wembley Library with poets, Jane Clarke and Jessica Mookherjee followed by Open Mic.
Local poets bring and read your own poems or poems you love to share.
Irish poet Jane Clarke reads from her latest collection A Change in the Air which was shortlisted for both the T S Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2023. Her moving poetry of people and place explores our kinship with each other and the natural world.
“Her verse attends so closely to the land and the people of her rural homeland that it makes us attend more closely to our own”. Ron Charles, Book Critic at the Washington Post.
Jessica Mookherjee is a British poet of Bengali heritage and grew up in Wales and London, now lives in Kent. She has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies and was twice highly commended for best single poem in the Forward Prize 2017 and 2021.
Author of 3 full collections from Nine Arches Press, her second collection , Tigress, was shortlisted for the Ledbury Prize in 202.
This event is funded by “Love Where You Live” Project and Star Books
Free: Tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-wembley-roots-tickets-1979854864195
Booking recoemmended.
As an encouragement here is a video of poetry written by Brent Children as part of the 2020 Borough of Culture. Covid put paid to plans for a huge poetry slam so some of the poems were shared on YouTube instead:
