Next Buzzwords Sunday 9th February

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday February 9th

 

 Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

7pm Workshop lead by Angela France

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet John Greening

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

John Greening is a Bridport, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner, author of over twenty collections, notably The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, ed. Gardner) and From the East (Renard Press, 2024). He has edited Matthew Arnold, Edmund Blunden, Geoffrey Grigson, Iain Crichton Smith and most recently U.A.Fanthorpe. As well as several critical studies and translations, there have been anthologies such as Contraflow: Lines of Englishness co-edited with Kevin Gardner (a Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2023). A book of linked essays, photographs and poems, A High Calling, appears from Renard in 2025 when his versions of Rilke's complete New Poems are also due from Baylor UP. 

John will be reading from his new U.A.Fanthorpe Selected, Not My Best Side, and from his own 2023 Selected Poems.

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday January 12th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday January 12th

 

 Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

7pm Workshop lead by Duncan Forbes

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Duncan Forbes

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Duncan Forbes’s poems have been published by Faber, Secker and Enitharmon, who produced a Selected Poems in 2009, drawn from five previous collections. He has won a Gregory Award, Stephen Spender Prizes, Hawthorden Fellowship and TLS/Blackwells prize. His most recent collection of poems is Under the Sun (2024).

He read English and has taught for many years, including a stint as an RLF fellow at Worcester University. Now retired, he lives in Cheltenham and is married with two grown-up children.