The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Sharon Morris, Burt Kimmelman and Jeremy Hilton, on Wednesday 5th February, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-fifth 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.

Jeremy Hilton is a poet, novelist, and composer of contemporary chamber music. He was born in 1945 near Manchester, and has degrees from Cambridge and Bangor Universities. He worked as a social worker for nearly 30 years. His poems have been published worldwide in magazines and anthologies since the 1960s, and he has published 12 collections with the alternative presses, including Shadow Engineering (Galloping Dog, 1991), Slipstream (Ripostes, 2003) and Lighting Up Time (Troubador, 2007). His first published novel, A Sound Like Angels Weeping, appeared from Brimstone Press in 2013. From 1995 – 2012 he published and edited the radical poetry magazine, Fire, which he co-founded with Chris Ozzard. His String Quartet no.1 was performed in concert in North London in March 2012.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Burt Kimmelman has published eight collections of poetry: Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2013 (BlazeVOX, 2013), The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011), As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007), Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), and Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992).Kimmelman has also published a number of books of literary criticism, including The “Winter Mind”: William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), and scores of essays on medieval, modern, or contemporary poetry. In the 1980s and 1990s he was senior editor of the now-defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. Some interviews of Kimmelman are available online: with Tom Fink in Jacket (text), and with George Spencer at Poetry Thin Air (video). Kimmelman teaches literary and cultural studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Born in west Wales, Sharon Morris is a poet and artist who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she is currently head of the doctoral programme. Her recent artworks include film-poems, and performance readings with video projection. False Spring, her first collection was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood Prize, 2007, and her second collection, Gospel Oak was published by Enitharmon Press in 2013.