THE MONTHLY Poets’ Cafe is welcoming its latest guest poet, as well as open mic performers, when it returns to South Street Arts Centre on Friday, September 8.
Ellora Sutton, queer poet and creative engagement officer at Jane Austen’s House, is set to take to the stage to share a collection of her works.
Sutton is also the Poet in Residence at Jane Austen’s House and the Petersfield Museum, with her work having been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry News, The North, Oxford Poetry, and The Interpreter’s House.
As well as having won the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award and the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition, she also reviews for Mslexia, a quarterly publication which examines the psychology of writing through prose, poetry, and submission competitions.
Through her poetry, Sutton explores queerness, mental health, nature, history, and art, informed by her work with Jane Austen’s House and elsewhere in her experiences.
Following her recent publication, Antonyms for Burial, being selected for the Poetry Book Society Spring 2023 Pamphlet Choice, she is set to publish her new collection, Artisanal Slush, through Verve, on Thursday, September 21.
The event is open to performers on the night through its open mic sections.
Tickets are £5 each, £4 for readers, available on the door or via: whatsonreading.com
Poets’ Cafe takes place at South Street Arts Centre on Friday, September 8, from 8.30pm, and every second Friday of the month.
