The Pomegranate London: Issue 11 Launch
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The Pomegranate London: Issue 11 Launch
Join the magazine’s editor, contributors and guests at Westminster Music Library on Wednesday 4th Nov for an evening exploring the interplay of literature, opera and jazz, with live readings and musical improvisation.
The Pomegranate London returns to celebrate the launch of Issue 11 of its independent art and literary magazine, featuring short stories, poems and essays on artists and their work.
Soprano Harriet Cameron and jazz pianist and composer Marco Marconi present a collaborative performance bringing operatic repertoire into dialogue with jazz, exploring the musical possibilities between the two traditions.
The launch will feature readings by four distinguished poets: Mary Mulholland, Janet Sutherland, Miranda Peake and Joseph Long, whose work appears in the new issue.
The evening will also include two new initiatives launching in January 2027: the annual Poetry Plays competition, with its £1,000 prize, and The Pomegranate Lab, a network bringing artists together across creative disciplines.
Copies of Issue 11 will be available to purchase, and there will be an opportunity to meet the magazine’s team and contributors. Whether a regular reader of The Pomegranate London or curious about contemporary writing, opera, jazz and the visual arts, everyone is welcome!
Poet Janet Sutherland is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023), which explores her great-great-grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840s with his friend Mr Gutch, a Queen’s Messenger. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2018. She has an MA in American Poetry and lives in Lewes, East Sussex. Website: https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/
Joseph Long lives and works on the Medway as a father and Engineer, writing poetry between shifts. He has a passion for works which reflect working class life & culture. His work has appeared in Stand, The Dawntreader and other publications; in 2025, he was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlongpoetry/
Miranda Peake is a London-based poet and visual artist. Her poems have been published in Ambit, And Other Poems, Banshee, Bare Fiction, Oxford Poetry, Magma, The Moth, Under the Radar and The Rialto. In 2014 she won the Mslexia Poetry Competition and her pamphlet, Yellow was published in 2019 with Live Canon. She has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway University and is the owner of Chener Books in South-East London. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirandapeake/
Mary Mulholland is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in magazines like Magma, Poetry News, Under the Radar, Stand, Mslexia, and Aesthetica. She is the author of two pamphlets, 'what the sheep taught me' and 'the elimination game'. Mulholland founded Red Door Poets and is co-founder and editor of The Alchemy Spoon. Mulholland has a debut collection forthcoming from Nine Arches in 2026. Website: https://marymulholland.co.uk/
Soprano and Performer Harriet Cameron studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Harriet was awarded the ‘Most Promising Young Singer’ prize at the Somerset Song Prize and was a finalist in the Ashburnham English Song Competition with Siyuan. Alongside her singing career, she is a passionate actor and director, a member of the National Youth Theatre, and recently directed Margarida Gonçalves’s opera for the Tête-à-Tête Festival. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haz.performs/
Jazz Pianist and Composer Marco Marconi is an accomplished classically trained, internationally performing jazz pianist and composer, appearing throughout the UK and Europe as a soloist and with his trio. Signed to 33Jazz, his albums include Nordik, Trialogue and New Roads. His distinctive skill as a composer has earned a reputation on the British festival circuit, the Fazioli Concert Hall in Venice and the London Jazz Club scene. Website: https://www.marcomarconi.com/
ABOUT THE POMEGRANATE LONDON The Pomegranate London is an independent art and literary magazine exploring the work and lives of artists through poetry, short stories, essays and conversations. Published in print and digital formats, it brings together writers and artists from different disciplines, celebrating the many ways in which art and literature intersect. https://www.thepomegranatelondon.com
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