Time to Write Poetry
26 May 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
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Join award-winning poet and nurse, Romalyn Ante, for a relaxed poetry workshop.
Take some time out to join nurse and poet, Romalyn Ante, for a relaxed poetry workshop.
Romalyn Ante FRSL is an award-winning Filipino-born British nurse, poet, novelist, and editor, based in the Midlands. Romalyn was born and raised in Lipa, Philippines, and migrated to the UK in 2005. She writes in English as her second language. In 2012, she began writing poetry after completing her nursing studies and becoming a registered nurse. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. It was Observer’s Poetry Book of the Month, and was named as one of The Poetry School’s Best Poetry Books of 2020. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024), was awarded the Society of Author's Arthur Welton Award, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her debut novel, The Left-Behind Child, will be published by Chatto in August 2026.
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