Dharmavadana (David Penn) and Maria Stasiak with their new collections hosted by Lisa Kelly. Poets from the floor welcome.
Dharmavadana (David Penn) was born in Dartford, Kent, UK and now lives in Norfolk. After careers as an English language teacher, writer/editor in educational publishing, charity shop assistant and librarian and thirty-five years living in London, he moved to the green city of Norwich and concentrates on writing. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Ambit, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prole, The Dawntreader, The Interpreter's House, The North, and Under the Radar, and many anthologies including Watcher of the Skies (Emma Press, 2016) and Voices For the Silent (Indigo Dreams Publications, 2022). From 2013 to 2023 he was poetry editor of the Buddhist arts magazine Urthona. Birdmen and Astronauts (Poetry Salzburg) is his first published pamphlet.
Maria Stasiak grew up in Newfoundland, and now lives and works in London. Her work has been published in magazines including Magma, The Rialto, Brittle Star, Interpreter’s House, Envoi, Urthona, Iota, Poetry Salzburg Review, The North and Shearsman. Her new book is Face It (Shearsman).
