Yvonne Green, poet in residence, invites you to hear two leading writers read their work

Date: Thursday 31 January 2008

Time: 7.30-9.00pm

Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1

Price: £7 (£5 concessions)

Ruth Fainlight was born in New York but has lived in England since the age of 15. She has published thirteen collections of poems, two collections of short stories, and written opera libretti for Channel 4 and Covent Garden, including THE DANCER HOTOKE, nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1992. She received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and the Hawthornden Award in 1994, and her collection SUGAR-PAPER BLUE was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Award. She has read and taught her work in most parts of the world, and volumes of her poems have been published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian. She has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Leonard Baskin, Judith Rothchild and Ana Maria Pacheco. Her most recent collection of poems is MOON WHEELS, and her translation of Sophocles` Theban Plays will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in the USA next year.

Elaine Feinstein was educated at Newnham College , Cambridge . She has written 14 novels, many radio plays, television dramas, and five biographies. She has been translated into many languages, invited to read her work at International festivals from Adelaide to New York and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at Bellagio in 1998. Her COLLECTED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS (2002) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She has received many awards, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester , and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio. She was given a major Arts

Council award in 2005 to write her new novel, THE RUSSIAN JERUSALEM, which comes out in May 2008.

Her latest book of poems is TALKING TO THE DEAD. She has recently been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.

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