Launch event...

CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse

The new CB1 Poetry website will be online soon, but meanwhile here is a preview of the Michaelhouse programme for 2007-2008. Our poster to advertise the series is reproduced below (please click the image for a larger version).

Acclaimed novelist and award winning poet Tobias Hill has agreed to become a patron of CB1 Poetry, and is headlining the launch event on Tuesday 9th October. We've secured a fantastic line-up of readings with well-known guest poets, all at 8pm on the second Tuesday of the month:

Tue 9 Oct : Tobias Hill (CB1 Poetry Patron; PBS Next Generation poet, Times Young Writer of the Year shortlisted)

Tue 13 Nov : Michael Laskey (Aldeburgh Poetry Festival founder, Smiths Knoll founder/co-editor)

Tue 11 Dec : Esther Morgan, Joanne Limberg & Helen Ivory (Eric Gregory Award winners, Aldeburgh best first collection / Forward prize shortlist / Poetry Archive Editor)

Tue 8 Jan : Matthew Hollis (Wordsworth trust writer in residence, F&F editor, Whitbread Prize & Guardian First Book Award shortlisted)

Tue 12 Feb : Frances Leviston (Eric Gregory Award, PBS Bulletin pamphlet choice)

Tue 11 Mar : Matthew Caley (Forward Best First Collection nominee, Poetry Café writer in residence)

Tue 8 Apr : Pat Borthwick (Hawthornden Fellow, Blue Nose Poet of Year, 2007 Templar competition)

Tue 13 May : Susan Utting (Peterloo Poetry Prize 2007 winner, Poetry Business prize, Forward Best Single Poem commendation)

Each event will also offer a short open mike floor spot and support readings from rising stars of the Cambridge and UK poetry scene – the launch event features recent Cambridge graduate and Eric Gregory national award winner Helen Mort.

The Michaelhouse offers a beautiful, large and accessible city-centre venue (note free parking by The Backs). Books by the readers will be for sale at each event, and a licensed bar will be open till 11pm.

Our traditional venue at the book-lined CB1 Café is of course irreplaceable, and we will continue to hold Open Mike evenings there, some with guest poets, every fourth Tuesday of the month at 8pm. We hope to see you soon at both venues to hear some amazing poetry.

Michaelhouse Trinity Street Cambridge CB2 1SU
www.michaelhouse.org.uk

CB1 Café 32 Mill Road Cambridge CB1 2AD