Poetry @ The Print Room - Emily Berry

Emily Berry is a poet, freelance writer and editor. She grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. An Eric Gregory Award winner in 2008, she co-edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives and is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury 2013), a compendium of breakfasts. Her début poetry collection Dear Boy (Faber & Faber, 2013) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was short-listed for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

On December 16^th Emily will be reading at The Print Room for our fourth night in a series of successful poetry evenings along with Daljit Nagra and Maurice Riordan.

Check out her website here:

http://www.emilyberry.co.uk/

And get a sneak peek into the evening by listening to her read from her début collection Dear Boy here:

“Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, dynamic ally. She seems to have complete freedom with form, and will use a poem whenever helpful as a vehicle for escape. A getaway car ... Berry's range is amazing.”

                                                    Kate Kellaway for The Observer