Reading with Tony Curtis

Back Room Poets present a poetry reading

featuring Tony Curtis

with John Daniel, Louise Larchbourne, Gina Wilson and Merryn Williams

Thursday 12th October, 2017 at 7:30 pm

at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore (34 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AA)

Admission: £ 4.00 (BRP Members £ 2.00)

The Pity of War

Back Room Poets & Members of the University Church Choir in


The Pity of War
Reflections, memories & experiences of war and its aftermath.

In support of Parkinson's UK Oxford branch and the Endeavour Fund for wounded soldiers.
Devised by Jenyth Worsley with Louise Larchbourne, Elizabeth Birchall, Mark Leech, Inge Milfull, David Olsen, Merryn Williams, Gina Wilson and Felix Leach, Julia Hollander, Lucy Matheson, Katie McMullin (Harp), Peter McMullin.

Guest Reader: Paul Mayhew Archer

Venue: University Church of St Mary the Virgin
High Street, Oxford. OX1 4BJ

Time: 7:30pm Friday 17 March, 2017

Entry: £ 15.00 Concessions £10.00
at door, or from www.ticketsoxford.com

Reading with Kieron Winn, 3 February

Back Room Poets present a poetry reading with Kieron Winn, reading from his collection The Mortal Man.
Time: Friday 3rd February, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Venue:  Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AA.
Admission: £ 4.00 (BRP Members £ 2.00)

Clive James on Kieron Winn's work:

‘The level of craft in these poems is a delight. Meticulous balancing means that a seemingly straightforward line rides on a wave of its own music, and the stanza jump (it needs a name: the hitch-kick?) has redoubled force when a line is succeeded only after a deep pause for breath. Larkin, of course, was a master of that manoeuvre, but Winn’s version of it is all his, and particularly seductive in its timing, like a pause and glide in a well-danced tango.’

Kieron Winn will be reading with Back Room Poets members Rip Bulkeley, David Olsen, Sarah Watkinson and Pat Winslow

New BRP anthology published!

The Back Room Poets latest anthology is Infinite Riches In a Little Room and was launched on 2 December 2016.
Published by the Albion Beatnik Bookstore's press, it presents a selection of the work of members' past and present, from between 1999 when the group was formed, to 2016. It covers a wide variety of styles. Many of the poems have previously been published in magazines and members' collections, or have been shortlisted or won prizes in competitions, while others represent original work. Our distinguished editor Merryn Williams was the founding editor of editor of The Interpreter's House magazine.