foyles.co.uk — Wednesday 18th March 2020 7pm - 9pm 107 Charing Cross Road Literary Event, Signing, Chargeable Event We are delighted to welcome award-winning publisher Verve Poetry Press for an evening of live poetry to celebrate the publication of two stunning new pamphlets from rising stars of contemporary poetry: Big Sexy Lunch from Roxy Dunn and Hotel from Ali Lewis. Leaf Arbuthnot. Review of Hotel by Ali Lewis (Verve Poetry Press, 2020). By using this website you imply consent to its use of cookies. Ali Lewis is a 28-year-old poet from Nottingham. This striking debut pamphlet from Eric Gregory Award winner Ali Lewis is a book of both close focus and great expansion. With poets such as Luke Kennard, Polarbear, Katrina Naomi, Matt Abbott, Louise Fazackerley and Genevieve Carver already on our list, as well as debutants such as Rupinder Kaur, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Ali Lewis and Hannah Swingler, you really can’t afford to take your eyes off of us! Ali Lewis received an Eric Gregory Award in 2018 and his debut pamphlet Hotel (2020) is out now with Verve.His poems have been published in magazines and anthologies including The London Magazine, Wild Court, Ambit, Poetry Review, and Prototype II. In short, intricate verse, his poems tackle the complexities of modern relationships and city living with great self-deprecation, not a little lightheartedness, and dashes of the surreal. Dunn’s poetry has appeared in The Rialto, Orbis and Ofi Press. Ali Lewis. A collection of her poems is also printed in the anthology Podium Poets #2, published by Nasty Little Press. For the physical pamphlet, please go HERE. We zoom in on a snowflake’s edge and a freckled wrist, and at the same time witness the continents merge and the universe expand into something unknowable. This striking debut pamphlet from Eric Gregory Award winner Ali Lewis is a book of both close focus and great expansion. Description. Magazines and Journals. © 1909 - 2021 The Poetry Society and respective creators • Site by Surface Impression. Hotel is a wonderful debut pamphlet from 2018 Eric Gregory award¬winning poet Ali Lewis. About Hotel Poems Teaching and Freelance CV Contact Publications. Hotel, Verve Poetry Press, 2020. Hotel. In ‘Tagay!’, the titular poetic form of drinking song ‘create[s] a community of support’ between Overseas Filipino Workers, but in ‘Mastering English’, the clichés of … In your poems, we see language creating and reflecting belonging, but also, conversely, separating and alienating. Blood is washed off a car, the earth is packed away, relationships fracture and mend. Goldsmiths Writers' Centre present Poetry with Mimi Khalvati, Ali Lewis and Ella Duffy Mimi Khalvati, born in Tehran, has spent much of her life in England and is a cherished member of the poetry community whose remarkable work as a teacher has been as influential as her fine work as a poet. 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