What's On
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| Venue | West Bridgford Library |
Headline Event
Join us at West Bridgford Library for an evening of wonderful poetry, as acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker shares her desert island poems in conversation with the Library Director of Bromley House Library Clare Brown, before reading from her own award-winning work.
“If there were to be a World Laureate, then for me the
role could only be filled by Imtiaz Dharker.” Carol Ann Duffy
About Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her seven collections include Over the Moon and the latest Shadow Reader, with poems featured on radio, television, the London Underground and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings and scripts and directs video films, many of them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India.
About Clare Brown
Clare Brown’s professional background is in arts management, initially working in theatre before becoming Director of the Poetry Book Society (PBS) in 1996. Running the PBS enabled her to develop her passion for reading poetry, started in childhood, particularly when organising the annual TS Eliot Prize readings and award ceremony. She left the organisation and moved to Nottingham in 2003. She has two novels published with Bloomsbury in the UK and one with Hachette in France, and freelanced for several years as a writer, consultant and workshop leader until joining Inspire Libraries’ Culture team in 2016. She has been Library Director of Bromley House Library since September 2022.
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Book now for £10
Places are limited, so booking is highly advised.
For any enquiries
- By phone
- 01623 677 200
- By email
- ask@inspireculture.org.uk
