Get ready for our upcoming member’s meeting on the 15th of July at the Royal Wells Hotel – as usual – starting at 8pm. We’ll have an open mic and will be joined by the wonderful Ali Lewis, who will be reading for us alongside our open mic session (poems of 40 lines or fewer). As always, entry is free for Kent & Sussex Poetry Society members, and £3 on the door for others.
Ali Lewis is a writer and academic – Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter University. He is the author of Absence (Cheerio, February 2024) and Hotel (Verve, 2020). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2018, and his poems and short stories have appeared in magazines including The Times Literary Supplement,The New Statesman, Poetry London, Poetry Review, PN Review, and The London Magazine. He has been shortlisted or highly commended in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, the Ginkgo Prize, the Rialto Nature and Place Prize, the Jane Martin Prize, the Pat Kavanagh Award, and the Poetry Book Fair competition.
You can read a few of his poems on his website here https://www.alilewispoet.com/poems.
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