International Women’s Poetry Reading: Shanta Acharya, Jane Duran, Mimi Khalvati, Jean Sprackland

Readings from Shanta Acharya, who is the author of nine books and founder of Poetry in the House; Sasha Dugdale, who translates plays for theatre companies; Jane Duran who won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1995; Mimi Khalvati, who is the founder of The Poetry School where she teaches; and Jean Sprackland, who won the Portico Prize for Non Fiction in 2012 and the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.