Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John's College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pavilion-poetry-launch-readings-tickets-313264581797?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John's College) and is funded by St John's College and a grant from the Judith E Wilson Fund.
The Pavilion Poetry Imprint of Liverpool University Press, edited by poet Deryn Rees-Jones, publishes three books a year in collaboration with the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. Constantly surprising and risk-taking, in recent years Pavilion poets have won and been shortlisted for all the major UK awards, including the T. S. Eliot Prize, Costa and Forward Prizes. The list includes poets such as Bhanu Kapil, Nuar Alsadir, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Mona Arshi. We are proud to launch this year’s Pavilion poets, Jemma Borg, Anita Pati, Denise Saul.
Jemma Borg won the inaugural Ginkgo Prize in 2018 and The Rialto/RSPB Nature and Place Competition in 2017. Her first collection The Illuminated World (Eyewear, 2014) won the Fledgling Award and the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry. She was a zoologist and evolutionary geneticist before working in scientific research management in the voluntary sector and in science publishing. Wilder (Pavilion, 2022) is her second collection. Selima Hill said of her first collection: 'Jemma is a poet to watch and wonder at'.
Anita Pati's debut poetry pamphlet Dodo Provocateur won The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition (2019) and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets. She has been a Jerwood/Arvon mentee, an Aldeburgh Eight participant, a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and a joint winner of the inaugural Women Poets' Prize (2018/20). Hiding to Nothing (Pavilion Poetry, 2022) is her first collection and was described by Fiona Benson as 'humane, fierce and original'.
Denise Saul is the author of two pamphlets. White Narcissi (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and House of Blue (Rack Press) was a PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. She is the recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and Fellow of The Complete Works. The Room Between Us (Pavilion Poetry, 2022) is her first collection and a PBS Recommendation for Summer 2022. Mona Arshi called it an 'achingly tender debut'.
6pm Drinks and refreshments in the Divinity School
