A short talk by Anthony Anaxagorou, followed by tea and coffee.

A short informal talk by poet, editor, and publisher Anthony Anaxagorou, followed by the chance to meet and ask questions in a relaxed setting. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a poet, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize, along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections.

Anthony is the founder and artistic director of Out-Spoken Live (https://www.outspokenldn.com/), a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press (https://www.outspokenldn.com/about), an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing. The Press has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Small Publisher of the Year in 2024, 2025 and 2026 and for the Michael Marks Publisher Award in 2024 and 2026. Press titles have won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Forward Prizes.

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