Name: POETRY ALIGHT 60 WITH HEADLINER PAUL McDONALD
Start: 2025-11-11T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-11T21:45:00+00:00
Location: Duke of York Lichfield

POETRY ALIGHT 60 WITH HEADLINER PAUL McDONALD

There is no admission charge, but we'd be grateful if you would buy raffle tickets please, with a chance to win poetry books. This enables us to give headliners money towards travel expenses.
3 min slots can be booked on the night.
Hosted by Gary Longden.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme. He is the author of over twenty books, which cover fiction, poetry, and scholarship. His creative work has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes including the Amerlyst Poetry Prize, the Bedford Prize, the Bridport Prize, the John Clare Poetry Prize, the Liverpool Poetry Prize, the Ottakars/Faber and Faber Poetry Competition, the Pushcart Prize (nomination), the Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize, the Sentinel Poetry Prize, and the Sentinel Short Story Prize. His most recent books are, Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Comic (2020) and Sixty Poems (2023)