Poetry on the Rise: Readings from Lavinia Singer and Daljit Nagra

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Books on the Rise, 80 Hill Rise, TW10 6UB

What

Culture

When

17 Oct 2024

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Poetry on the Rise: Readings from Lavinia Singer and Daljit Nagra

Join us at Books on the Rise for our ongoing Poetry on the Rise reading series as we return again to bring the best contemporary poetry to Richmond! This time we will be joined by Daljit Nagra (Indiom, 2023) and Lavinia Singer (Artifice, 2023) to read from their latest newly released paperback collections…

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About the Poets:

Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra was born into a working class, Sikh family in London. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, on the Council of the Society of Authors, Advisor to Poetry By Heart, and presents the weekly Poetry Extra on Radio 4 Extra. Nagra's collections have won the Foward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. He lives with his family in Harrow.

Lavinia Singer

Lavinia Singer is the author of the pamphlet Ornaments: A Handbook (If a Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020) and co-editor of Try To Be Better (Prototype, 2019), a creative-critical engagement with the work of W. S. Graham. Her poetry has been awarded the Newdigate Prize, the SMV Heritage Poetry Competition, the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize; shortlisted for the inaugural White Review Poetry Prize, the Margaret Hewson Award for New Writing and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize; and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. She works as an editor of poetry at Faber. Artifice is her first full collection of poetry.

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