Poetry And...Women in the Arctic: In partnership with Hercules Editions

Poetry and…. a series of readings at King's College, London, curated by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel, celebrates poetry’s power to connect across boundaries. Free events, free refreshments, and meet the author book-signings

Helen Mort FRSL won the Manchester Young Writer Poetry Prize and was five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award. Her first poetry collection Division Street won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize: her second collection No Map Could Show them featured women alpine climbers. Her new pamphlet The Singing Glacier contains poetry to accompany music by William Carslake, with whom she explored a glacier in Greenland. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. Her BlogSpot `Poetry on the Brain` was one of the Picador `Best Poetry Blogs` choices.

Sara Wheeler, FRSL, travel author and biographer, is an internationally acclaimed author, famous especially for her accounts of polar regions. Her books include Chile: Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, and The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic.

Emma Stibbon RA, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton, is an award-winning artist with an international reputation. Her residencies include the British School in Rome, and an art and science expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Read more about Helen, Sara and Emma on King’s online poetry magazine Wild Court, http://wildcourt.co.uk/poetry-and/

This is a free ticketed event but booking is essential. Wine and soft drinks will be served following the reading.

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