Liz Berry at Exeter Community Centre on November 1st 2019 at 7.30pm

As the first of our occasional series of readings, Liz Berry will be performing in the ballroom of the Exeter Community Centre on Friday November 1st at 7.30pm.

Liz Berry was born in the Black Country and now lives in Birmingham. Her first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’ (Guardian) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Her pamphlet The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet choice and the title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018.

Tickets are £10/£8 and available on the door.