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Poetry open mic night to celebrate the annual Cork-Coventry Twin Cities Poetry Exchange! Featuring: -sets from our two guest poets, Victoria Kennefick and Dean Browne
-open mic
-'meet the poets' Q&A
Hosted by Coventry poets Andrea Mbarushimana and Emilie Lauren Jones.
Open mic: limited number of slots, sign up on the night.
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DEAN BROWNE:
Dean Browne was a recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021 and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Banshee, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, PN Review, Southword, Stinging Fly, and elsewhere.
VICTORIA KENNEFICK:
Victoria Kennefick's debut poetry collection 'Eat or We Both Starve' (Carcanet, 2021) won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022 and was awarded the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year 2022. Most recently, it has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. In 2021, it was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Book Award. It was a book of the year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The White Review. Victoria is the current poet in residence at the Yeats Society Sligo.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Royal Oak, 22 Earlsdon Street,Coventry, United Kingdom