St Mungo's Mirrorball Showcase 8

An evening showcasing some of the best poetry across the UK with poets Sarah Howe, Cheryl Follon and Samuel Tongue.

Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has performed her work at festivals internationally and on BBC Radio 3 & 4. Having previously held fellowships at Cambridge University and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, she is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at University College London.

Cheryl Follon's most recent collection Santiago, published by Bloodaxe Books, is made up of 85 short prose poems that delight in the thing itself. These are simple and communicative poems, looking at the world from new angles and in a surprising way and one that hopefully delights. Previous to this, she has published two collections, also with Bloodaxe Books. She teaches in a further education college in Glasgow and a good deal of her free time is spent travelling.

Samuel Tongue is a widely published poet and poetry editor of the Glasgow Review of Books. He won a Scottish New Writers Award in 2013 and has collaborated with a wide range of artists and writers. He is also a judge for the Scottish Poetry Library's Poetry by Heart competition.