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Myra Schneider

posted 15 Feb 2012 05:23 by Anthony Wright   [ updated 24 May 2013 07:57 ]

Saturday 30 June 2012, 7.30pm.  £7 entry    

Myra Schneider’s recent collections are Circling The CoreInsisting on Yellow: New and Selected Poems; and Multiplying The Moon  – all Enitharmon – and a narrative poem, Becoming, (SLP 2007). She was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2007. Her prose publications include novels for young readers and books about personal writing, notably Writing My Way Through Cancer, a journal with poems, and with John Killick the resource book, Writing Your Self. She has co-edited anthologies of work by contemporary women poets; is a tutor for The Poetry School; and consultant to the Second Light Network of Women Poets.

Emotionally vulnerable, richly allusive and superbly poised.  Jane Holland, Poetry London.

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