THURSDAY 10th MARCH, 2016

Cardiff Poetry Experiment

Doors open at 7pm, readings promptly at 7:30pm
Free admission, accompanied by discussions
refreshments available for purchase

Waterloo Teahouse

Wyndham Arcade,

Cardiff City Centre,

CF10 1FH

(enter opposite Central Library)

Featuring:

SANDEEP PARMAR
author of Eidolon and The Marble Orchard
 

TOM JENKS
author of Spruce, Items, and The Tome of Commencement
 

CAROL WATTS
author of many weathers wildly comes, Sundog, and Occasionals
 

Sandeep Parmar  has published two books of poetry: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon, and scholarly works on modernist women writers Nancy Cunard, Hope Mirrlees and Mina Loy. Her edition of Mirrlees's poetry appeared from Carcanet in 2011 and she's currently editing the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). She teaches in the English department at the University of Liverpool where she is Co-Director of the Centre for New and International Writing. Her poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Poetry Review and the Times Higher Education.

Tom Jenks' most recent book is Spruce (Blart Books). He co-organises The Other Room reading series, administers the avant objects imprint zimZalla and is completing a PhD at Edge Hill University. More at http://zshboo.org 


Carol Watts lives in London. She is Professor of Literature and Poetics at Birkbeck. Recent poetry includes the collections many weathers wildly comes (Spiralbound/Susakpress 2015), Sundog (Veer Books, 2013) and Occasionals (Reality Street Editions, 2011). 56, a collection with George Szirtes, will be published by Arc this year. She is currently working on a project for vinyl called T.R.E.E. with the sound artist Will Montgomery, made from creaking trees and rare earths.

Cardiff Poetry Experiment is supported by Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy.