About this Event
Welcome to Medway River Lit: Poetry Republic - Caroline Bird. Join us for an evening filled with captivating performances at Coffee Republic Chatham. Listen to talented poets share their work! Don't miss out on this opportunity to experience the magic of spoken word. See you there!
The final days of the republic are seen out by our festival patron Caroline Bird. Caroline gave an electric performance to kick start the festival last year and it’s only fitting that she returns to see this year’s towards a close by wreaking her special poetic magic from the Poetry Republic stage.
Caroline Bird was born in 1986 and grew up in Leeds before moving to London in 2001. Caroline has had eight books of poetry published by Carcanet. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition (published July 2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Her sixth collection, The Air Year was published in February 2020, and was book of the month in The Telegraph, book of the year in the Guardian, shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and winner of the Forward Prize. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022. Her most recent book Ambush At Still Lake was described by Roger Robinson as a ‘masterful work, in which lies a deep emotional resonance, illuminating the transformative power of love’
Caroline’s achievements as a writer are something we can all look towards and aspire to. We are very lucky to have her as our patron!
Supporting Caroline wil be Kent-based poets, Charlotte Ansell and Sarah Tait.
Doors open at 6pm in order for us to partake of some delicious cake and coffee before the performances!
Caroline Bird
COVER - AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE
CHARLOTTE ANSELL
SARAH TAIT
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Coffee Republic Chatham, 185-187 Military Road, Chatham, United Kingdom
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