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SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Poetry Session featuring Guest Poets.\nAnn Gray’s (Cornwall) collections include At The Gate (Headland, 2008), The Man I Was Promised\n(Headland, 2004), and most recently, a pamphlet, I wish I had more mothers a winner in\nthe Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition 2018. She was Poet in residence at Cambridge\nUniversity Botanic Gardens as part of the Thresholds University Museums Project, curated\nby the Poet Laureate in 2013. Winner of the Ballymaloe poetry prize in 2014, “My Blue Hen”\nwas shortlisted for the Forward Prize for the best single poem in 2015. With David she was\nco -director of the Bodmin Moor Poetry festival.\nDavid Woolley (Cornwall) has published one pamphlet and three full collections, the latest being\nPursued by a Bear (Headland, 2010). A long poem, City of Water , celebrating his home city\nof Plymouth is due in autumn 2022 from Kiss & Bite Letterpress. He has also co-edited\nanthologies of poems in celebration of both Bob Dylan and The Beatles, both published by Seren.\nDavid was in charge of events and festivals at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea for fifteen years.\nHe has more recently been co-director, with Ann, of the Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival in Cornwall.\nTogether Ann and David live and work in Cornwall where Ann has run a care home for people\nwith dementia for more than thirty years. David has worked with Ann at the home for the last ten\nyears. They will read from their joint collection DearLife.\n7pm.  £5.\nTo register, please email melvillecamanager@gmail.com\n
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/organisations/poetry-upstairs/
CATEGORIES:Arts,Community
LOCATION:Penypound, Abergavenny
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