July 1st, 2021 – Guest Poet: John Stuart

John Stuart will be our Guest Poet on July 1st. He will be reading from his sequence ‘Drawing on the Natural’ written in collaboration with the artist Norman Steel.
Also, do read transcript of John’s interview with Anthony Watts on our ‘FRP Interview’ page.

May 6th, 2021 – Guest Poet: Moniza Alvi

Moniza was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. She has published several collections of poetry, including Homesick for the Earth (Bloodaxe 2011), versions of the French poet Jules Supervielle.
Three of her books have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: her first The Country at My Shoulder (OUP 1993), Europa (Bloodaxe 2008) and At the Time of Partition (Bloodaxe 2013). Her most recent collection is Blackbird, Bye Bye (Bloodaxe 2018) and a collection Fairoz is in preparation.