Poetry Launch Thursday September 25th, THE SOUTH:
Naomi Foyle's The Night Pavilion
Poet and performer Naomi Foyle presents her first collection, The Night Pavilion from Waterloo Press, supported by Arts Council England, and an Autumn 2008 PBS Recommendation. With a reading by Valeria Melchioretto. And music from Magdalena Reising.

Venue Redroaster Cafe, St James Street, Brighton (North side of street, just off Old Steine)
Price   £5/£4 concessions and Friends of THE SOUTH
Time    Doors 8 pm for an 8.30 pm start

A review courtesy of Survivior's Poetry written by Dave Russell has now been added, this time on Moniza Alvi. Please have a look in the Essays & Reviews section.

Reading at Borders, Brighton 5th June, 6.30 pm
Beryl Fenton will read extracts from her new book alongside the excellence of Bernadette Cremin, Simon Jenner, David Pollard and Alf Wiltshire.

Beryl Fenton
Beryl Fenton’s poetry has a fine ring and polish to it. She engenders a painterly quality on the page, and her highly accessible work resonates with the reader 
Wes Magee  

Bernadette Cremin
…weird and wonderful; Cremin dares to write honestly. Where does she get these images? Her similes are inspired 
Michael Donaghy

Simon Jenner
There is genius in this poetry 
Martin Seymour-Smith

David Pollard
Pollard's intensive, ontological meditations on loss, 'the death of God', creativity and the failure of writing, are quite wonderful and wholly unexpected.

Alf Wiltshire
The linguistic inventiveness - dazzlingly out of synch with impacted trendies - stems from a delight in words, concepts, puns, as they bounce off the business of living.

Reading at Borders, Brighton 5th June, 6.30 pm
Beryl Fenton will read extracts from her new book alongside the excellence of Bernadette Cremin, Simon Jenner, David Pollard and Alf Wiltshire.

Beryl Fenton
Beryl Fenton’s poetry has a fine ring and polish to it. She engenders a painterly quality on the page, and her highly accessible work resonates with the reader 
Wes Magee  

Bernadette Cremin
…weird and wonderful; Cremin dares to write honestly. Where does she get these images? Her similes are inspired 
Michael Donaghy

Simon Jenner
There is genius in this poetry 
Martin Seymour-Smith

David Pollard
Pollard's intensive, ontological meditations on loss, 'the death of God', creativity and the failure of writing, are quite wonderful and wholly unexpected.

Alf Wiltshire
The linguistic inventiveness - dazzlingly out of synch with impacted trendies - stems from a delight in words, concepts, puns, as they bounce off the business of living.

Poetry Society Book Recommendation for Naomi Foyle's The Night Pavilion
Waterloo Press are delighted that Naomi Foyle's collection The Night Pavilion has been chosen as a Poetry Society Book Recommendation. It will be published on August 1st, Lammas Day, as Foyle, has pointed out.

No stranger to the intricacies of pain or the mystery of pleasure, in which both men and women are ‘blindfolded’ and bound - whether in ballads or prose poems - Naomi Foyle writes with elegance and wit, while never pulling any punches.
Maria Jastrzębska

Norman Buller will appear at the Ledbury Festival
Waterloo is delighted that Norman Buller is appearing on July 9th as a featured poet of the Ledbury Festival for his collection Sleeping with Icons. His second collection will follow next year. His pamphlet Travelling Light appeared with Waterloo in 2005 and marked an extraordianrily belated debut.

The language is absolutely exact and economical......and [he] makes the best uses of the characteristic Buller effect of the shorter last line – which I remember imitating while at Cambridge. Wish I could write like that
Thom Gunn

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