Next Buzzwords
Sunday June 11th
Upstairs at the
Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Workshop lead
by Janet Sutherland 7pm
Open mic and
readings 8pm
Guest poet Janet Sutherland
pay on
the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Janet Sutherland
grew up on a dairy farm, she is the author of five poetry collections,
most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023). Her previous
collections all from Shearsman
are Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and
Burning the Heartwood (2006).
The Messenger House, a hybrid collection, is about her
great-great-grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840’s with his
friend Mr Gutch, a Queen’s Messenger. Her poems are widely anthologised
and published in magazines such as New Statesman, The Spectator
and The North. A
critical essay on the poet Charles Reznikoff appeared as an afterword
to two new editions of his work, Holocaust, in the UK (Five Leaves
Publishing, 2009) and USA (Black Sparrow
Press, 2007). She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and
received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018.
She has an MA in American Poetry and lives in Lewes, East Sussex.
https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/