Round Table with Anthony Anaxagorou
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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
In this round table event, Anthony Anaxagorou will be sharing his own poems and opening discussions with the group. Few poets have wider experience in developing the work of young
Event Details
In this round table event, Anthony Anaxagorou will be sharing his own poems and opening discussions with the group. Few poets have wider experience in developing the work of young and new writers than Anaxagorou, from his founding and hosting of the live literature event and press Out-Spoken, his years of experience as a poetry educator, and most recently, founding the online literary journal Propel Magazine, a platform for poets yet to publish a first collection. This is a unique opportunity to meet with an expert in the field.
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator.
