Hosted by Lisa Kelly
Poets from the floor welcome
Caroline Smith has been published extensively, appearing in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Stand Magazine, Agenda, Acumen and anthologies, including ' Staying Alive', Bloodaxe. She has given readings around the world, collaborated in musical theatre and had her poetry set to music. She has read at Barnard College, New York, Michigan University, The British School at Rome, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Harvard Square, Cardiff, Ledbury and Aldeburgh Poetry Festivals and Dove Cottage for the Wordsworth Trust.
Jennifer Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong. She studied English at Oxford University and earned an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has a creative writing PhD on Chinese diaspora poetry at Oxford Brookes University.
Wong is the author of the poetry collections 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020), which was the PBS Spring 2020 Wild Card Choice; Goldfish (Chameleon Press, 2013); and Summer Cicadas (Chameleon Press 2006).
