PBLJ presents an evening of poetry at the BMI

PBLJ presents an evening of poetry with Camille Ralphs, Graeme Richardson, and Ian Duhig. This is a FREE EVENT courtesy of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, in partnership with the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University. The event will take place at the Sullivan Hall, at Birmingham & Midland Institute, and will include wine, refreshments and nibbles. Book here and come along.

Arrive from 6 pm; readings will start at 6.30 pm.

Ian Duhig FRSL became a full-time writer after working with homeless people for fifteen years. He has since then published nine collections of poetry, held fellowships including at Trinity College Dublin, won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and his New and Selected Poems was awarded the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. A Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has worked on a wide range of collaborations ranging from Pre-Baroque music to jazz-rock, film and visual art to social projects including with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and Refugee Action Bradford. His new book, An Arbitrary Light Bulb, is the Poetry Book Society Winter Choice.

Graeme Richardson grew up in Nottinghamshire, and now lives and work in Germany. A former Chaplain and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, he also served as a Parish Priest in Hertfordshire and Birmingham. Over the last twenty years, his writing has featured in various publications including The Guardian and The Times, and he has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement since 2010. A first pamphlet, Hang Time, was published in 2006; his second pamphlet, Last of the Coalmine Choirboys, is available now from New Walk Editions. For the last few years he has also been the Poetry Critic of The Sunday Times.

Camille Ralphs is a poet, critic and editor. She is the author of After You Were, I Am (Faber, 2024)Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including the New York Review of Books, the Poetry Review, The Spectator and the London Magazine, and she has released three pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award; uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020); and Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press, forthcoming 2023). She writes critically for publications including the Telegraph, the Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books, produces a regular column for Poetry London and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. She is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement.

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