Roger McGough will host an evening of poetry in Twickenham next month in the culmination of Arts Richmond's 'Identity' Poetry Competition held earlier this year.

Shortlisted poems will be performed at The Exchange in Twickenham on Saturday September 4 and there will be an awards ceremony hosted by McGough.

McGough is an award-winning poet, playwright, broadcaster and children's author from Liverpool, and is known as one of the 'Liverpool Poets'.

The Roger McGough poetry prize is a national poetry competition which welcomed submissions inspired by this year's theme of identity.

Run by Arts Richmond, the competition was judged by McGough back in March at the ETNA Community Centre.

A copy of the Anthology titled 'Identity' will be available to purchase.

The event

Saturday 4 September 2021

3pm to 5pm

The Exchange

Twickenham

TW1 1BE

Find more info on the Arts Richmond website here.

Shortlisted poets and poems

Vera Meister 'The Flamenco Dancer'

Trevor Breedon 'Painting the Town'

Tony Trafford 'Riding Tandem'

Trisha Broomfield 'Voices'

Claudia Court 'Doing Time' and 'No Wonder'

Molly Turley 'I Don't Know Who I Am/I Know Who I am'

SimonTindale 'Soulchord' and 'IZ UIZ?'

Kathleen Bell 'Library Card'

Simon Williams 'Five Guesses' and 'A Russian Woman Folds Towels'

Janet Hatherley 'Ghazal: Through'

Sim Smailes 'Identity Crisis'

Ezekiel Foster-Eardley 'Identity Deficit'

Valerie Purcell 'A Piece of Shrapnel'

Stuart Fortey 'Love in the Electronic Age' and (Self-) Portrait 1503'

Dorinda Ann MacDowell 'Remember Me?'

Livvy Sutherland 'i-land'

Roger Kirkpatrick 'Myers-Briggs 'Psychometric Test (Haiku)'

Sue Proffitt 'The Old House'

PatriciaCammish 'Our Cat Walked Through Their Backyard'

David Mark Williams 'Becoming a Statue in Commemoration of Yourself'

Claire Collison 'The Art of Conversation'

Lara Frankena 'By Grand Army Plaza, the Die Was Cast' and 'Mr and Mrs and Ms

Roger Elkin 'Brad from Joe Soaps Hand Car Wash'

Cindy Vincent 'You Don't Sound Like You're from Essex'

JoeWilliams 'Six Suits', 'People in Shops' and 'Introducing the Band'

David Bleiman 'Reclaim the Name'

Jenny Mitchell 'The Security Guard at Shopmore Says I Am A Thief'.

Mark Totterdell '1998'

Anne Kealy 'Taproot'

Audrey Ardern-Jones 'Ghazal Voices'

David Paterson 'The Earl of Oxford Outed'

Duncan Forbes 'Self Knowledge'

David Pratt 'Bernard'