Poets' Directory Live! Virtual Stanza Reading

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Join us for the 2nd Poets' Directory Live! Poetry Society virtual stanza reading

Join us for the 2nd Poets&#x27; Directory Live! Poetry Society virtual stanza reading on September 17th at 19:00 with readings from Naush Sabah, Martha Sprackland, Casey Bailey, Michael Conley and Victoria Kennefick.Naush Sabah is a writer, editor, and educator from the West Midlands. She is Editor and Publishing Director at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University, and a trustee at Poetry London. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the TLS, The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. Her debut double micro-pamphlet box set Heredity/ASTYNOME was published with Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack last year and her pamphlet Litanies is forthcoming with Guillemot Press.Victoria Kennefick&#x27;s first collection, Eat or We Both Starve, was published in March 2021 by Carcanet Press. Her pamphlet, White Whale (Southword Editions, 2015), won the Munster Literature Centre Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition and the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Poetry News, Prelude, Copper Nickel, The Irish Times, Ambit, bath magg, Banshee and elsewhere. A recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, she has also received bursaries from Kerry County Council and Words Ireland. Casey Bailey is a writer, performer and educator, born and raised in Nechells, Birmingham, UK. Casey is the Birmingham Poet Laureate 2020 - 2022 and the Greater Birmingham Future Face of Arts and Culture 2020.

Casey’s second full poetry collection Please Do Not Touch was published by Burning Eye in 2021. His first full collection Adjusted was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2018. Casey has had his poetry published in a number of anthologies and journals including Poetry Birmingham Literature Journal and anthologies published by Emma Press and Verve Poetry Press. 
A number of organisations have commissioned pieces from Casey, including the BBC, Symphony Hall, West Midlands Combined Authority and Birmingham City Council, and he has performed his poetry in Edinburgh, London, Liverpool, Birmingham, France, India and many other places.Michael Conley is a poetry and prose writer from Manchester, UK. His poetry has appeared in magazines including Rialto, Magma, Butcher&#x27;s Dog, Strix and Interpreters House, and his first pamphlet, Aquarium, was published by Flarestack. His work has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. His prose work has been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, and his collection of short stories, &#x27;Flare and Falter&#x27;, was published by Splice in 2019 and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. His latest pamphlet &#x27;These are not my Dreams and Anyway Nothing here is Purple&#x27; was released in 2021 with Nine Pens Press.
Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator from the north of England. She was co-founder–editor of Cake magazine, and is a co-founding editor of multilingual arts zine La Errante and the independent publishing house Offord Road Books. She has published translations from the Spanish of poems by Ana Gorría (Ciclo, Debacle Ediciones, 2020), Gladys Mendía (PTC/Ledbury, 2020), and Verónica Viola Fisher (Arc/Edge Hill, forthcoming 2021) In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Peirene–Stevns Translation Prize (fiction). Following two pamphlets, Glass As Broken Glass (Rack, 2017) and Milk Tooth (Rough Trade Books, 2018), Martha&#x27;s debut collection of poems, Citadel (LUP, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Award and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize.

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