"WHY WE WRITE POETRY"

"A celebration of poetry and poets"

How passionate are you about poetry? Want to hear more? Come to:

Wimbledon Library

Wednesday 21st January evening 6 till 8 pm - FREE!

Poetry readings, Question & Answer session with the public and
discussion!
The following top poets will read from their works:

1) Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas, is a highly published
poet in her own right. As well as doing lecture tours of the USA
promoting her own poetry along with her father's poetry and teaching
in Universities, she is an Honorary Fellow of Swansea University.
2) Russell Thompson, poet, performer and teacher, is a comedian and
poet of the Edinburgh Festival and Literary Festivals around the
country. He appeared with John Hegley and Simon Armitage on radio. He
works for Apples and Snakes.
3) Alec Linstead is a long-standing professional actor and film
performer of regional and national theatre and TV as well as award
winning poet.
4) Patrick McManus has put Raynes Park on the world poetry map,
particularly on the Internet and his poems have recently been
rendered in art film and in song.
5) Marianne Zeck does performance arts for LB Merton and teaches
therapeutic strategies for contemporary life. She is engaged on new
poems in response to now in the London melting pot.
6) Ann Vaughan-Williams is a widely published poet and organiser of
poetry events, performance reader of Anglo-Saxon poetry and teacher
of Creative Writing, currently editor of The Long Poems Magazine, a
new literary poetry magazine out in January.
7) Lesley Rootham is a passionately engaged and poignant poet, who is
experienced in tough work with children on poetry programmes in
Merton primary schools and is a long standing esteemed member of our
group.
8) Rosanne Gomez' poetry engages with Sri Lankan survival of tsunami,
literal and political.
9) Paul Roden is an American poet and university teacher. He makes a
sublime Avocado dip.
10) Keith Drake is well known locally and wider afield for his
rhyming verse rich in comic satire and period savvy; his double act
with his wife Suzanne represents the deeper troughs of relationship
between the sexes.

It's free and there's food and drink too - so why not come along and
meet the poets!