Poetry Club welcomes Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Sullivan and James Conor Patterson, three of the finest poets of their generation, for a spell-binding evening of poetry.

Zaffar Kunial’s second and latest collection of poems, England’s Green, has been shortlisted for this year’s TS Eliot Prize. Earlier in 2022, he received the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes including the TS Eliot Prize. He lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham.

“This is a poet in complete command, close-reading the language (Urdu or English) letter by letter, and only then turning to larger-scale narratives of grief and memory. It’s poetry stronger for knowing poetry’s limits: “Prayer is not the words, but having none and staying.” – Graeme Richardson, Sunday Times

Hannah Sullivan won the prestigious TS Eliot Prize in 2019 with her debut collection, Three Poems. She is an academic who teaches English at New College, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. She will read from her newly published collection Was it For This for the first time on the 9th of February.

“The best first collection I’ve read for a long time: moving, technically adroit, clever in all the right ways, and full of brilliant small-scale effects as well as large achievements.” – Andrew Motion, Guardian

James Conor Patterson’s debut poetry collection bandit country was published by Picador in September 2022 for which he has been 2022 TS Eliot Prize. In 2019 he received an Eric Gregory Award for his work. He is from Newry in the North of Ireland.

“[bandit country] is dynamic and weighted and boasts a technical proficiency that makes an easy for it to be considered a classic” – Caleb Femi, Award-winning Poet and Author