Welcome to 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007

Welcome to Tom Chivers' Page

Poet in Residence @ 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007: August 10, 11, 12, 13

Tom Chivers is an energetic writer, editor and promoter of poetry. Born in 1983 and raised in South London, Tom was educated at Oxford University and now runs penned in the margins, the UK’s most exciting live literature producer. He presents a weekly show devoted to poetry and spoken word on London’s avant-garde arts radio station Resonance FM. He is Associate Editor of international literary journal Tears in the Fence and writes a regular column ‘From the Other Side of the Fence’.

Tom’s creative work is published widely in magazines including Fire, Stride, Smoke, Nthposition, The Reader, The Libertine, Isis, X-Magazine and The Wolf. His poems are included in the anthologies automatic-lighthouse (Tall Lighthouse, 2006) and Babylon Burning: 9/11 Five Years On (Nthposition, 2006) and have been translated into Serbian. His poem ‘Eavesdropping’ won Merit at the Nottingham International Poetry Competition 2002.

Tom lives and works in the East End of London, from where he draws inspiration for his poetry. His most recent work is concerned with negotiating new relationships with a fluctuating, unstable city that is continually coming to terms with its multiple and conflicting identities. Reflecting this, his poems are often multivocal and modulate between lyrical, conversational and descriptive registers. Patricia Prime writes in NHI Review, ‘Tom Chivers has a striking, individual voice and a powerful one’. Tom is very much a poet of the urban landscape, but writes compelling of other places. His work also explores his own family history, confronting feelings of love, loss and alienation.

Tom works towards a poetry that is instinctively musical, taking his cue from the likes of TS Eliot, Basil Bunting, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney and Barry MacSweeney, as well as contemporary writers such as Alice Oswald and Kamau Brathwaite. As a regular performer of his work, Tom writes for the ear and aims to harness the sound – as well as the sense – of words in his writing.

Tom’s debut collection of poetry – provisionally titled London Pride, Mother’s Ruin – is forthcoming from Waterways Publishing in 2007.

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3rd London Poetry Festival 2007 August 10, 11, 12 and 13 (Friday-Monday)  Poets in Residence at 3rd London Poetry Festival are: Briony Dennis, Inua Ellams, Juli Jeana, Tom Chivers and Tricia Peak For further info call 07809 682 065 or write to editor at poetsletter dot com

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