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.’
