Next Buzzwords Sunday 9th November

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday November 9th

 Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 7pm Workshop lead by Anna Saunders

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Anna Saunders

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

 

Anna Saunders is the author of eight books: Communion, Kissing the She Bear (Wild Conversations Press),  Struck (Pindrop Press), Burne Jones and the Fox, Ghosting for Beginners, Feverfew, The Prohibition of Touch, and Eurydice in the Ruined House (all Indigo Dreams).  Fran Lock said of Eurydice in the Ruined House ‘this is a deft and generous work in which to delight’, and Samatar Elmi described it as ‘ a triumph of vision, craft, and execution’. 

Anna has been widely published in journals and holds four Arts Council Awards. She is the co-editor, with Ronnie Goodyer, of the anthology Dear Dylan ( Indigo Dreams). She is the Founding Director of Cheltenham Poetry Festival.  Anna has been described as ‘a poet who surely can do anything’, (The North), ‘a poet of quite remarkable gifts,’ ( Bernard O’Donoghue), and ‘a modern mythmaker’ - Paul Stephenson. 

The American poet Joseph Fasano said of her ‘Anna Saunders' poems reach back to the very origins of who we are, and, in their contact with the ancient things, they transform themselves into freshness, newness, life. Dripping with myth, they sing, they mourn, they celebrate. There is magic in these poems—not the superficial magic of illusion but the deep magic of being.’