The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Elaine Randell, Robert Hampson and Joanne Ashcroft , on Tuesday 18^th March, from 7.30at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-sixth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.

Joanne Ashcroft is currently undertaking creative writing practice-led research at Edge Hill University investigating the idea of ‘multi-voice lyric’in contemporary innovative poetry. She is a member of the Poetry and Poetics Research Group at Edge Hill. She was joint winner of the inaugural Rhiannon Evans Poetry Scholarship 2010. From Parts Becoming Whole (The Knives Forks Spoons Press, 2011) is her first book of poetry. Joanne was winner of Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize 2012, and her pamphlet Maps and Love Songs for Mina Loyis available from Seren. She teaches poetry part time at Edge Hill University.

Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the Poetic Practice pathway of the MA in Creative Writing. In the 1970s he co-edited Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards. In 2001, Stride published Assembled Fugitives: Selected Poems 1973-1998. His recent publications include a second edition of Seaport(Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and Reworked Disasters (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2013), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize (2013).

Elaine Randell was born in 1951 in south London, and has been living close to Romney Marsh, Kent for over thirty years. Living with her husband, three daughters, two English Setter dogs and a herd of rare breed sheep and other livestock, she works as a social worker and psychotherapist. Her Selected Poems represents thirty-five years of work as poet, glimpses in time, concerns, loves, gardening and other preoccupations. Her Selected Poems 1970-2005 (2006) and Faulty Mothering (2010) are both available from Shearsman.