Please join Claudine Toutoungi, Rebecca Watts and Matt Howard for an evening of poetry as part of the Cambridge Writing Centre's Three Poets series!

Tickets are free, and all are welcome - reserve a place here.

Claudine Toutoungi is a poet and playwright. She was born in Warwickshire, studied English and French at Trinity College, Oxford and has worked as an actor, a BBC radio drama producer, English teacher, and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for Newnham and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Carcanet published her debut poetry collection Smoothie in 2017. This was followed by Two Tongues (2020), which won the Ledbury Prize for Second Collection. Her third collection, Emotional Support Horse, was published in late 2024. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish and her live poetry contributions to festivals include Tongue Fu, Poetry East and appearances on BBC Radio 4. Her plays for theatre include Bit Part and Slipping (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and her many audio dramas for BBC Radio 4 include Deliverers, The Inheritors and The Voice in my Ear. She lives in Cambridge.

Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge, where she works as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and freelance writer, editor and tutor. A selection of her poetry was included in New Poetries VI (2015). Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Her second collection, Red Gloves, was published in 2020 and won a Gladstone's Library Writers-in-Residence Award.  Her third collection, The Face in the Well, was published in January 2025.