Event
Women and Words
10 Mar 2022
Regular hours
- Thu, 10 Mar
- 19:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
£5 tickets available via eventbrite
Address
- 183-185 Bermondsey Street
- (adjacent to White Cube Bermondsey)
- London
England - SE1 3UW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- C10 Victoria to Canada Water (Stop F Bermondsey Street)
- London Bridge - Borough
A reading by three powerful women poets: Annie Freud, Sue Hubbard and Helen Ivory plus a musical offering from composer and performer Kri
About
Join us at Bermondsey Project Space for an evening of poetry and music celebrating female writers contributions to London's literary landscape.
Doors: 7 PM
Performances: 7.30 PM
Annie Freud is a poet, painter, tutor, translator and editor. She has three collections in print with Picador, of which The Mirabelles was short-listed for the TS Eliot prize. Her fourth collection, Hiddensee (pronounced Hiddenzay) was published in January 2021. She is renowned for her live performances.
Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three novels : Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis), Girl in White (Cinnamon Press), for which she was awarded a major Arts Council Award, and a collection of short stories, Rothko’s Red (Salt). Her latest novel, Rainsongs is published by Duckworth, Mercure de France, Overlook, US and Yelin Press, China. Her fourth novel is due from Pushkin Press and Mercure de France in 2023. The Poetry Society’s only ever Public Art Poet she was commissioned to create London’s largest public art poem at Waterloo.
Helen Ivory is a poet and artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (2019. She edits IS&T and teaches online for the UEA/NCW. Her collage book Hear What the Moon Told Me is published by KFS, and chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City by SurVision. She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian and Spanish for Versopolis. Her New and Selected will appear from MadHat (US) in 2022. She is working on her next collection How to Construct a Witch.
Kri is a singer, performer, producer and composer based in London. Become immersed in her surreal world of experimental vocal music exploring ethereal, sensual and futuristic sounds.