Examples of previous events
November 30th 2019: Poetry Place writing workshop at Beeston Library 11.30 – 1pm. In this experimental, place-based writing workshop you will try out different ways of creating poetry focused on Beeston. You will draw on a selection of images and written sources from the local history collection, other ‘found’ Beeston-related materials and your own experiences of the town. You will need to bring an open mind, a notebook and a pen. Play with words and share some of your draft poems with other writers from the group in a supportive workshop environment. Booking at: https://tinyurl.com/y4f3z78u For any other enquiries phone 01623 677 200 or email ask@inspireculture.org.uk
October 17th 2019: Slow Dancer Press celebrations. I’ll be reading at The Wheatsheaf, Rathbone Place London with the incomparable John Harvey (editor and publisher) and other Slow Dancer poets at The Wheatsheaf, Rathbone Place W1T 1JB. It’s sure to be a good night so do come along. Capacity is limited so make sure you book a free ticket first at eventbrite. Readings start at 7pm. Readings from 10 Slow Dancer writers including Matthew Caley, Libby Houston, Rebecca Goss and Peter Sansom.
August 1st 2019: I read some poems about Stanley Middleton at the launch event for Poetry and Old Age (Stanley’s selected poems published by Shoestring Press) at Sherwood Library 11.30 – 12.30. This lovely event was followed by the unveiling of a plaque at Stanley’s former home in Caledon Road.
Spring 2019: Poetry and Place: How do three poets write about near and far-flung places? Tuesday April 30th 6.30 – 8pm at Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2DH. Alan Baker, Sue Dymoke and Aly Stoneman read poems about near and far-flung places and talk about the place of place in their poetry. £3 including refreshments. Buy tickets on the door or reserve in the bookshop/by emailing events@fiveleaves.co.uk.
Alan Baker is the editor of Leafe Press. His latest collections are Letters from the Underworld (Red Ceilings) and Riverrun (KFS), a sequence of poems about the river Trent. Sue Dymoke’s third full collection What They Left Behind was published by Shoestring Press in 2018. Aly Stoneman is currently writing about sea-level rise and erosion on the British coast. She is a PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University, sponsored by the AHRC and Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
Sue Dymoke Poetry 