OCTOBER
Thursday 18 October - 8pm
PIGHOG PRESS NIGHT
With readings from Lorna Thorpe, Ellen De Vries and Hugh Dunkerley.
Shakespeare's Head, Spring Street, Brighton
£5/£4 (Friends of THE SOUTH £4/£3)
lLorna Thorpe’s debut poetry pamphlet Dancing to Motown was the Poetry Book Society’s pamphlet choice for autumn 2005. Her short stories have been shortlisted for awards and published in magazines and anthologies. She is a freelance writer and lives in Brighton.
Ellen De Vries was born in Belfast to a Northern Irish mother and a Dutch father. She has lived in many countries including Morocco, Yemen, the Czech Republic, and Romania. She now lives and works as a writer in Brighton. Since returning to England, she has read on BBC radio, set up Mouth Cabaret during the Brighton Fringe Festival, worked at the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival and spent lots of time working with The South Literature Network.
Hugh Dunkerley has published one pamphlet collection, Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press) and had poems in a variety of magazines and anthologies both here and in North America. A selection of his work will be appearing next month in Oxford Poets 2007 (Carcanet). He teaches creative writing at the University of Chichester and is the West Sussex Poet Laureate.
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