Overview

This event celebrates ten years of Pavilion Poetry, one of the most successful small poetry presses in the UK, with a remarkable record of publishing prize-winning, international poets. 

An off-shoot of Liverpool University Press, Pavilion poetry is edited by Deryn-Rees Jones, herself a prize-winning poet and joint Director of the Centre for New and International Writing at Liverpool University. 

Hannah Copley’s recently published second collection is Lapwing. A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation, it explores restlessness, addiction, and ecological and personal grief. Hannah is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Westminster University, and a poetry editor at Stand magazine. 

Alice Hiller published her debut collection, bird of winter, in 2021 and it was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward first collection prize and the John Pollard prize. This book explores how creativity can open up paths to redemption, beyond childhood hurt and abuse, and beyond society’s silencings. Alice has founded Voicing Our Silencings to resource poets responding to difficult materials: http://voicingoursilences.com 

This event is supported by Pavilion Poetry.