Poet Colette Bryce.
Celebrated Derry poet Colette Bryce is to return to her home town later this month to take part in the latest leg of the Writers Return series.
Along with another of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated poets, Leontia Flynn, she will be joined by Qatari poet Maryam Al Subaiey to read poems about journeys and discuss how their international travels with the British Council have inspired and informed their writing.
The even, being held in the Verbal Arts Centret on 19 September, is part of the British Council Writers Return live event series.
Working with their network of international writers, the British Council’s Literature Department has programmed a series of evenings which will allow writers recently returned from their travels with the British Council to share new work inspired by their trips abroad: talking about where they’ve been; where they’re going; and how it informs their writing.
Born in Derry in 1970, Colette Bryce lived in London for many years before moving to Scotland in 2002 where she held the fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee.
She moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 2005 when she was appointed to the North East Literary Fellowship.
She now divides her time between there and London in her work as a freelance writer and editor.
She has received several awards for her books including the Aldeburgh Prize and the Strong Award, and for individual poems she has won both the National Poetry Competition (2003) and the Academi Cardiff International (2007).
She teaches for various organisations including the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and the University of Newcastle and is the editor of Poetry London.
Her poem ‘The Full Indian Rope Trick’ was voted the favourite National Poetry Competition winning poem in 2008 in a poll to celebrate 30 years of the National Poetry Competition.
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