On Monday 15th May, Ruth will be reading at Coffee-House Poetry at The Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5. Anne-Marie Fyfe, the Coffee-House Poetry organiser writes: Looking forward to welcoming you all back after our Easter/Spring Break to Summer 2017 with a classic Troubadour Poetry Monday, May 15th, see right, showcasing eight great poets. Read more at www.coffeehousepoetry.org
The latest edition of The High Window, Issue 5 Spring 2017, includes five poems by Ruth Sharman: After the Fire Eve Speak Tinnitus Leaving Waiting for the Perseid Meteors The High Window: Issue 5 Spring 2017
Interlitq: You refer in some of your poems to your childhood in India. Do you feel you need to travel to exotic places to gain a sense of wonderment? Ruth Sharman: I do feel a sense of wonderment – largely second hand – through my father’s experience of remote regions like the Amazon Rainforest and [...]
Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Martin Malone in the current issue (64) of The Interpreter's House. You were right: it was never just about butterflies. Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman. Templar Poetry. 78pp; £10.00, ISBN 978-1-911132-10-3. Five years on from my own – somewhat callow – Straid success, it’s a pleasantly humbling experience to encounter the [...]
Ruth will be reading her poetry at Words and Ears at The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon on Thursday 26th January. More details at www.dawngorman.co.uk
Ian Pople Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger (Templar Poetry, £10) Ruth Sharman’s Scarlet Tiger comes some time after her first collection, Birth of the Owl Butterflies; its title poem a second place winner in the Arvon Poetry Competition. In this book too, there are poems about butterflies and Sharman’s father. Indeed the interest in, near obsession with, butterflies is [...]
Tuesday 22 November sees the London launch of Ruth Sharman's Scarlet Tiger at Keats House in Hampstead. Admission is free for this Templar Poetry Live event. Ruth will be reading poems from Scarlet Tiger and Michael Brown will read from his pamphlet, Locations for a Soul. For more details and to register, click here.
On Wednesday evening, 16th November, at Topping and Company, Bath, Ruth Sharman will be reading from her second full length collection of poems, Scarlet Tiger, published by Templar Poetry.Doors open at 7.45 p.m.Click here for more details.
Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman, published by Templar Poetry, will be launched at the Derwent Poetry Festival, 4th - 6th November 2016, at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.Ruth will be reading poems from the collection on Saturday 5th November at 5.15 p.m.
Templar Poetry have announced that Ruth Sharman is the winner of this year's Straid Award for a full collection of poetry. 'We are delighted to announce that Ruth Sharman is the winner of this year's Straid Award for a full collection of poetry. Her first full-length collection was published by Picador, and the title poem 'Birth [...]
