Next Buzzwords Sunday July 24th

Next Buzzwords Sunday July 24th
Workshop, led by Martyn Crucefix, 7pm
Guest readings and open mic 8pm
Guest poets: Martyn Crucefix, plus readers from the Ruth Stone tribute anthology "Salt on the Wind"

Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
£5 waged, £3 unwaged

Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 7 collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010): “an exceptional ear . . . superbly intelligent . . . urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful.” (Kathryn Maris, Poetry London). His translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as “unlikely to be bettered for very many years” (Magma). His translation of Rilke’s The Sonnets to Orpheus appeared from Enitharmon in 2012. Recent original collections include The Time We Turned (Shearsman, 2014), A Hatfield Mass (Worple Press, 2014) and Daodejing – a new version in English has just been published. The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, forthcoming 2017). Website and blog: http://www.martyncrucefix.comn

Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery produced this anthology of poets responding to Ruth Stone's poetry as a celebration of her work. Don Share said of it "this volume demonstrates poets of every kind can carry forward her influence, her strength, and her memorable wisdom".

Readers for this evening include Chaucer Cameron,  Kathy Alderman, Jean Riley and Angela France