A terrific line-up of poets, musicians and prose writers, orchestrated by the indomitable Peter Mortimer, appeared at Iron Press’s 40th birthday knees up in Cullercoats last weekend. This was a fantastic celebration of all that Iron Press has achieved with imaginative programming, audiences fortified by much homemade cake and good company and events in great venues. Poetry highlights for me were Kevin Cadwallender, Valerie Laws, S.J. Litherland, Pauline Plummer and the irrepressible Ian McMillan. Now there are so many more new poetry books to read and so little shelf space.
Sue Dymoke was a poet, Associate Professor in Education at Nottingham Trent University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. What They Left Behind, her third full poetry collection was published by Shoestring Press in 2018. A posthumous collection, What to do Next, was published by Shoestring Press in 2023, when there was a memorial celebration of her life in University Hall, Nottingham. Sue's memorial video can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDDSW_HOEc&t=60s This website is maintained in her memory by her civil partner, David Belbin, but will not be updated.
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