Saturday, August 9, 2025

Next Buzzwords Sunday 14th September

 

 Next Buzzwords Sunday September 14th

 

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 *Please note change of guest poet*

7pm Workshop lead by Zoe Brooks

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Zoe Brooks

 

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

Zoe Brooks has been widely published in print and online magazines. Zoe’s poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Wagtail: The Roma Women’s Poetry Anthology (Butcher’s Dog) and Contemporary Surrealist and Magic Realist Poetry (Lamar University Press).

 

Her long poem Fool's Paradise won the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition award for best poetry ebook 2013. Her collection Owl Unbound was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in October 2020 and Fool’s Paradise was published as a print book by Black Eyes Publishing in 2022. Her third collection provisionally called Something In Nothing will be published by Indigo Dreams in 2026.

 

Zoe is a director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, leading on the Festival’s year-round online programme.