Brit Lit: New Writing from the UK and Ireland
October 17, 2002 at 7:00 pm
Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College, 150 E. 25th St. at Lexington Ave., New York City. FREE. The panel discussion is sponsored by Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Rattapallax, Council for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), and Poets House.
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Paul Muldoon has been awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award in 1991, the T. S. Eliot Award for The Annals of Chile in 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1996, and, most recently, the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for his New Selected Poems. He is president of the Poetry Society. In May 1999, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and -following James Fenton- is the 42nd poet to hold this honorary position which involves giving three lectures a year for a period of five years. He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. With Robert Crawford he edited The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland. Since 1945, and two further collections of poetry, The Universal Home Doctorand Travelling Songs, will be published by Faber & Faber in 2002. It was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall, 1993. He writes for radio, television and film, is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, and his first novel, Little Green Man, was published by Penguin in 2001. He has published nine volumes of poetry including Killing Time (Faber & Faber, 1999) and Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2001).

Glyn Maxwell received the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize, which the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him in 1997. He is author of The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995, The Breakage, and Time's Fool. He is Poetry Editor of the New Republic.

Mimi Khalvati, born in Tehran and grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended the Drama Centre, London. She worked as a director at the Theatre Workshop, Tehran, translating from English into Farsi and devising new plays. She co-founded the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, running poetry workshops and courses in London. Her previous Carcanet collections include In White Ink (1991) and Mirrorwork (1995).

Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in London. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art. In 2004 she was selected as one of the Next Generation Poets. Her second collection, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was a Book of the Year in The Independent and Times Literary Supplement. It won an Arts Council of England Writers' Award, a New London Writers' Award, and a poem from the book was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. A Spanish/English bilingual edition is forthcoming from Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, Mexico City. Her first collection was Heart of a Deer (Enitharmon, 1998). Seren publish her third collection, The Huntress, in spring 2005. She is Poetry Editor of Poetry London and co-edited Tying the Song, the first Poetry School anthology. "A blazing new arrival" Boyd Tonkin - The Independent.