The nineteenth in our Friday lunchtime reading series with Barbara Barnes, Iulia David, Nicky Kippax and Glyn Maxwell.

Iulia David is a Romanian-born London-based poet who graduated from the MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School and Newcastle University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming, among others, in Poetry Ireland Review, Ambit, The Rialto, Magma, Under the Radar, The Scores and Crossing Lines: An Anthology of Immigrant Poetry. She won a special commendation in the 2017 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition (EAL). You can read more of her work at https://fox.horse/.

Nicky Kippax has recently been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Ginkgo Prize, the Live Canon International Poetry Prize and the Bath Fiction Prize. Her work can be found in many anthologies and publications including the latest issue of The Rialto and Poetry News. She lives in York where she runs a family bakery and is editing her first collection.

Barbara Barnes is a Canadian born, London based actress and poet. Her poems have appeared in Poetry London, Ambit, Under the Radar, The Brixton Review of Books, Magma,The Alchemy Spoon, Perverse, and Butcher’s Dog, as well as anthologies including ‘For the Silent’ (Indigo Dreams) and the upcoming ‘Cry of the Poor’ (Culture Matters). She is a graduate of the MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School and Newcastle University.

Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, novelist, librettist and critic. His volumes of poetry include How the Hell Are You, The Breakage, Hide Now, and Pluto, all of which were shortlisted for either the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His Selected Poems, One Thousand Nights and Counting, was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2011. On Poetry, a guidebook for the general reader, was published by Oberon in 2012. The Spectator called it ‘a modern classic’ and The Guardian’s Adam Newey described it as ‘the best book about poetry I’ve ever read.’