![]() ![]() Togther with Melanie Mauthner, she co-edited Waterwords (BLUpress, 2008), a collection of poems written to celebrate the Brockwell Lido’s 70th birthday. She received a BA and an Msc in Russian Studies from Hull University and the LSE, and published three novels and two poetry collections with Hearing Eye: Sayling the Babel (2006) and Reaching Peckham (2009). Hylda taught English as a Foreign Language in London and Spain, table tennis to young Londoners, and founded and lived in a community on the South Yorkshire Moors. She was also the resident ‘Elizabethan minstrel’ in the Elizabethan Rooms, Kensington. ![]() She began singing and performing in the coffee bars of 1950s Soho, with the City Ramblers Skiffle Group in Soho’s Skiffle Cellar, and subsequently on TV and radio. The love child of itinerant, communist market traders, says her biography, Hylda was educated at A.S. As the founder and indefatigable host of Fourth Friday, she connected up the creative energies of poets and musicians she was also a brilliant performer of her own wonderfully inventive poetry and songs. We were very sad to hear of the death of Hylda Sims, a stalwart of Poetry Café programming for 15 years and of the wider poetry scene for decades more. Hylda Sims (centre) performing in The Poetry Café, London, with her beloved post-skiffle and blues group, City Ramblers Revival. ![]()
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