The second in a series of four Adventures in Poetry events during 2025, with four Nottingham-based poets reading with a specially invited guest of their own choosing. The poets will read, chat, and answer questions from the audience.

Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He edited the magazine Equofinality from 1981-1994, and began the pamphlet series Equipage, which now lists up to 120 titles. He has published poetry with Salt and Carcanet. Between 1992 and 2002 he was co-organiser of the annual Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry. He has also edited essay collections on contemporary fiction, avant-garde art, fiction of the 1940s, and Australian poetry. He was a recipient of the Cholmondely Award for Poetry in 2020.

Andrew Duncan has lived in Nottingham since 2005, and has been publishing poetry since the late ’70s. Books include Threads of Iron, Skeleton Looking at Chinese Pictures, Anxiety Before Entering a Room, The Imaginary in Geometry, Savage Survivals, and a selected poems, On the Margins of Great Empires (Shearsman, 2017). From the same publisher are Zerodrifter (translations from the poetry of Thomas Kling, 2018), and a collection of new poems, With Feathers on Glass (2023).

Tickets are £4.50, £3.00 to students but free to members of Nottingham Poetry Society

Refreshments included.

Adventures in Poetry is grateful for the financial support of the Nottingham Poetry Society

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