Poetry Centre Stage: Hollie McNish and Anthony Anaxagorou (ONLINE)
Performers for this event
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Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry. In 2022 he founded Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. His third poetry collection Heritage Aesthetics published by Granta on 3 November 2022 was a New Statesmen and Financial Times book of the year.
Event Details
We’re delighted to make space in our Saturday evening main event for two of the most talented poets and performers at work in the UK today, Hollie McNish and Anthony
Event Details
We’re delighted to make space in our Saturday evening main event for two of the most talented poets and performers at work in the UK today, Hollie McNish and Anthony Anaxagorou. McNish has taken the poetry world by storm with a series of poetic memoirs published by Picador, and a performance style that is second to none. Few poets have McNish’s ability to captivate an audience, and if you haven’t had the pleasure, you shouldn’t miss out. Anaxagorou’s second collection, After the Formalities, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, while his third, Heritage Aesthetics, was one of the finest collections of the year, a deepening of his inquisitive, essayistic style with dreamlike surrealism, ambitious imaginative leaps. Like his co-main-eventer, Anaxagorou is an enthralling performer, and we can’t wait to see them both live on StAnza’s centre stage.
Hollie McNish is based between Cambridge and Glasgow and has published five collections of poetry and memoir. She is also a theatre-maker, and her poetry has been translated into six languages. Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. In 2012, he co-founded Out-Spoken, an ongoing live poetry and music night and later poetry press, and in 2022 he founded Propel Magazine, a literary journal for poets yet to publish a first collection.
Includes a 15-minute interval.
Location
Digital (online)
