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On Wednesday 25 November 2009, The Spectator continues its series of successful poetry evenings showcasing some of the biggest and brightest names in contemporary poetry. The reading will take place in The Spectator Boardroom, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP between 6:30pm and 9pm.

A limited number of tickets are available for this event, where you will join 2009 Forward Poetry Prize winner Don Paterson, Spectator poetry editor and winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Hugo Williams, writer of upcoming film Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky Chris Greenhalgh, and Eric Gregory Award winner Olivia Cole.

We are delighted to announce Frieda Hughes will also be attending the Poetry Evening!

Tickets priced at £46 (inc VAT) per person.
Includes drinks reception and poetry reading.

For overseas bookings please call +44 (0) 207 961 0044

Reserve your place by calling The Spectator events team on 020 7961 0044 quoting reference POETRY10 or email poetry@pressholdings.com.

Don Paterson

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. His first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Landing Light (2003) won both the 2003 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2008, he won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) and was awarded an OBE. His new new poetry collection, Rain, was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).

Hugo Williams

Poet, journalist and travel writer Hugo Williams writes a column in the Times Literary Supplement, and was poetry editor for the New Statesman. His Collected Poems, which brings together work from eight books, was published in 2002. His poetry collection Dear Room (2006), was shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Poetry Award. His latest collection is West End Final (2009), shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).

Chris Greenhalgh

Chris Greenhalgh won a Gregory Award in 1992. He has published three collections with Bloodaxe: Stealing the Mona Lisa (1994), Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt (2000), and The Invention of Zero (2007). His novel Coco and Igor, for which he has written a screenplay, was published by Headline in 2002. He is currently Academic Deputy Head of Sevenoaks School in Kent.

Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole is an award winning poet and journalist who writes for The Spectator and the London Evening Standard specialising in the arts and literature. Her first poetry collection, Restricted View, will be published by Salt this year. In 2003, she won an Eric Gregory award, the Society of Authors’ awards for poets under the age of 30.