What lies below the sand?

Join us for a wonderful evening of poetry on time with Matt Bryden, Tiffany Tondut, Konstandinos Mahoney and Sue Wallace-Haddad.

Matt Bryden is a poet and teacher living in Somerset, where he runs the Somerset Young Poets competition. His pamphlet Night Porter won the 2010 Templar prize while his first collection Boxing the Compass was nominated for the Crashaw prize 2013. More recently, he won the Charroux Memoir prize in 2019 and the William Soutar Prize in 2019. His project Lost and Found, which views the Lost Property Office at Bristol Temple Meads as an entrance to the Greek Underworld, won a 2018 Literature Matters award from the Royal Society of Literature. He has published in journals including Poetry Ireland, Stand and Modern Poetry in Translation and has read in many places including the Latitude Festival, the Dylan Thomas centre and the John Hewitt festival in Armagh. In 2018, he created a free interactive online Poetry Map, featuring over sixty of his own poems, to prepare students for the Unseen Poem question at GCSE. He has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths. mattbryden.co.uk

Tiffany Tondut: Cambridge-raised, Tiffany now lives in Sutton with her husband and daughter. She has a Masters in Poetry from Kingston Uni and taught Performance Poetry at The City Lit, having performed for the Festival of Britain and for radio. Her work has featured in Magma, The Rialto and Poetry News amongst other publications and commissions. She has been a winner in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize (2015) and the Poetry Archive's Word View competition, 2020. She is the founding publisher of poetry press Laudanum.

Konstandinos (Dino) Mahoney is a London poet of Greek-English-Irish heritage. He won publication of his collection, Tutti Frutti, in a Sentinel Publication Poetry Book Competition and is a winner of the Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition. Recent poems appear in: Perverse, Butcher's Dog, High Window, Tentacular, Live Canon 154 Sonnet anthology and London Grip. He teaches Creative Writing at Hong Kong University and is rep for Barnes and Chiswick Stanza. He is also part of DINO and the DIAMONDS a group that performs his poems as songs. dinomahoney.co.uk

Sue Wallace-Shaddad lives in Suffolk following an international career with the British Council. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London. She writes poetry reviews and is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society. Sue has read at different venues including Poetry in Aldeburgh in 2020. Her short collection, A City Waking Up, was published by Dempsey and Windle in 2020. She was shortlisted for the Plough Prize in 2021. Her poems have appeared in London Grip, Brittle Star, Fenland Poetry Journal, Ink Sweat and Tears, Poetry Space, Artemis and other anthologies and magazines.