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Elaine Feinstein is a prolific poet, novelist, playwright, biographer and translator with more than fifteen collections to her name she has also published biographies on Ted Hughes, Anna Akhmatova and Pushkin.

Helen Dunmore launches her beautiful new collection The Malarky in Bristol. Author of eleven novels and three collections of short stories, her poem The Malarky won the National Poetry Competition in 2010. Poet and critic Dennis O’Driscoll has published nine books of poetry, he will read from his new collection Dear Life.

Bristol Poetry Festival 2012