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Bristol Poetry Festival Spring 2013 offers up readings from Penelope Shuttle, Deryn Rees-Jones, Pat Simmons and Kapka Kassabova.

Penelope Shuttle’s latest book, Unsent, is drawn from over three decades of published work. Deryn Rees-Jones is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool. Her collection, Burying the Wren, was shortlisted for the 2012 TS Eliot prize. Kapka Kassabova is the author of two UK poetry collections; an award winning travel writer, she regularly contributes for The Guardian, TLS and BBC Radio. Pat Simmons was winner of the 2010 Grey Hen National Poetry Competition.