Poetry Night

Doors 7:30pm

Planned order of poetry nights:

• Guest poet reads

• Open mic for people to either read their own material or read from published material available to hand in the shop (or brought from home) - hosted by Ellora Sutton

• Guest poet closes

No tickets - please just turn up and enjoy, but we ask that everyone pay a nominal £2 fee which we charge for all events.

For poetry nights, the shop and bar will be open to all. Contact ellorawrites@gmail.com and gary@goldfinch-books.com for more information.

Julian Stannard is a Reader in English and Creative Writing.

He has a PhD from the University of East Anglia and before coming to the University of Winchester, where he teaches English and Creative Writing, he taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa. He taught English Literature at the University of Suffolk , 1994-2002.

His work has been represented in the Faber Anthology First Pressings (1998) and the Oxford Poets/Carcanet Anthology (2004), and he writes for the Guardian, TLS, PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review and Nuova Corrente (Italy). He has read at festivals and literary venues throughout Europe and the United States and he was awarded Crabbe Memorial Prize  1996-9, The Troubadour Prize in 2010 and The Prize for Comedic Writing , Norwich Cafe Poets  (2017)

His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry (USA) and twice for the  Forward Prize (UK).