In this online event, Deryn Rees-Jones will read from her new poetry book Hôtel Amour alongside guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon who will read their own work.
A sequel to her T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Erato, Hôtel Amour sees Deryn Rees-Jones returning to ongoing preoccupations: the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry’s place in a hostile world.
The event is free, but please register for the Zoom link via Eventbrite.
About the poets
Deryn Rees-Jones is a poet, editor and critic. She has received various awards for her work, including an Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley award. Her collections. Burying the Wren and Erato were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool.
Menna Elfyn is an award winning Welsh language poet and playwright who has published fifteen collections of poetry, novels for children, radio, stage and television plays as well as documentaries. Her forthcoming collection Parch (Bloodaxe Books) is a hybrid collection in English translation along with new poems.
Olivia McCannon is a writer and translator. Born on Merseyside, she has lived in Paris, London and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Exactly My Own Length (Carcanet), won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Her collection The Lives of Z was published this year (2025) by Pavilion Poetry.
