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Cardiff Literary Salon | 11 December 2012 | Carrie Etter & Bob Walton


Cardiff Literary Salon Returns on 11th December 2012



Literary Salon

Sherman Cymru plays host to the Cardiff Literary Salon

Tuesday 11 December  - 7.30pm
Special Guest: Carrie Etter
American expat Carrie Etter has published two collections, The Tethers (winner, London New Poetry Award; Seren, 2009) and Divining for Starters (Shearsman, 2011), and edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010). Her poems have recently appeared in New Welsh Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and The Rialto, among other journals.

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