Poets from the floor welcome.
The radical political voice of Dinah Livingstone annually rings out on May Day at Torriano. She will be reading new works and from her tenth collection Embodiment.
Dinah Livingstone had a rural childhood in in the West of England and has lived in Camden Town, London, since 1966. She has received three Arts Council Writer's Awards for her poetry. She is also a translator (from Spanish, French, German and Italian) with a special interest in Latin American poetry and prose. She has been a reader at Torriano Meeting House since the mid 1980s.
She ran the Camden Voices Poetry Group for twenty years, taught many of our contemporary poets and her Poetry Handbook for Readers and Writers (Macmillan 1993) is dedicated to them.
'Not only is she an excellent wordsmith but her poetry resonates beyond the merely personal to comment on the wider social and political issues of our time... but she uses a crow's wing rather than a sledgehammer to make her point... ' -- Morning Star
