Reading together on Sunday 17 November at 6.30pm in Woodstock Methodist Church - tickets must be booked in advance through The Woodstock Bookshop and cost £5 each - or buy any of their books from us and have free entry.
David Constantine
David Constantine has published ten books of poetry, two short story collections, a novel and several translations including Goethe's
Faust for Penguin Classics. His most recent poetry collection is
Nine Fathom Deep. He was co-editor of
Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004-2013. This year his collection of short stories,
Tea at the Midland and Other Stories, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award - he is the first English writer to win the award. He is a fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford.
Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale has taken over from David Constantine as editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She has been a translator and consultant for the Royal Court Theatre and other theatre companies - Plasticine, her translation of Vassily Sigarev, won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. She has published two collections of Russian poetry and three collections of her own poems - most recently Red House.
Olivia McCannon
Olivia McCannon's first collection, Exactly My Own Length, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize and won the 2012 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
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