Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers is a writer, editor and live literature producer. Born 1983 in South London, he currently lives in the East End. In Spring 2008 he was the first ever Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute. His books include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and, as editor, the anthologies Generation Txt and City State: New London Poetry (Penned in the Margins, 2006 & 2009). In September 2009 Radio 4 broadcast his documentary about the poet Barry MacSweeney. He is Director of the live literature producer and small press Penned in the Margins, and co-Director of London Word Festival. Tom has performed his work across London and at festivals in Berlin, Newcastle and Dublin.
News
Transcript - the Macedonia Issue
Word Express writers Aleksandra Dimitrova, Elizabeta Bakovska and Jovica
Ivanovski feature in Literature Across Frontiers's trilingual review of
writing in translation.
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival
18th - 24th October 2010
poets
Netalie Braun (Israel),
Gokçenur Çelebioğlu (Turkey),
Ivan Hristov(Bulgaria),
Ana Ristovic (Serbia) and
Anat Zekharia (Israel) to collaborate and perform in Tel Aviv.
Found in Translation
"I'm happy you didn't take me for another germ"
Two poems by Karen Karslyan
"when bees burn they become soft like red velvet, brittle as the naked
pupils of blue eyes"
Poems by Vassilis Amanatidis