Next Buzzwords Sunday February 8th
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
7pm Workshop lead by Alison Brackenbury
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poet Alison Brackenbury
£5 waged, £3 unwaged, pay on the door
Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire, from a long line of skilled servants and farmworkers. She has received two major awards from the Society of Authors and has broadcast frequently on national BBC Radio. Her ten poetry collections are all published by Carcanet Press. ‘Gallop’, her Selected Poems, was published in 2019. Her latest poetry collection is ‘Thorpeness’, published in 2022.
In 2025, Alison published her only prose book, a non-fiction account of her Lincolnshire childhood home. called ‘Village’. Nicola Chester, the Guardian Nature Diarist, described ‘Village’, in a recent review, as
‘a glorious, generous compendium. A selection box of delights and a romp through stories, and revelations, that overlap in layers, like a coloured tissue-paper lantern... full of the most beautiful, poetic language’.
