[ONLINE] Nottingham Poetry Festival Presents: Anthony Anaxagorou

Wednesday 18 November 2020

7:00 pm : Online

14+ (Under 16's must be with an adult)

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*All Nottingham Poetry Festival events will be taking place online.*

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere, as well as appearing on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.

His second collection ‘After the Formalities’ published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. It was also selected by both The Telegraph and The Guardian as a poetry book of the year.

He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.

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[ONLINE] Nottingham Poetry Festival Presents: Anthony Anaxagorou

*All Nottingham Poetry Festival events will be taking place online.*

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere, as well as appearing on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.

His second collection ‘After the Formalities’ published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. It was also selected by both The Telegraph and The Guardian as a poetry book of the year.

He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.

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