7pm - workshop
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poets: James Sheard and Deborah Alma
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
James Sheard is the author of Hotel Mastbosch (2003), Scattering
Eva (2005), Dammtor (2010) and The Abandoned
Settlements (2017). When away from his writing desk, he
assists Emergency Poet Deborah
Alma as poetic medic, ambulance driver and dispenser of poemcetamols.
Jim’s work has received the Ictus Prize and been named Poetry Book
Society’s Pamphlet Choice as well as Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
It has also been shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best
First Collection and the Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry. He
is currently in his 11th year of teaching at Keele University.
Deborah
Alma has an MA in Creative Writing, taught Writing Poetry at Worcester
University and works with people with dementia and in hospice care. She is also
Emergency Poet prescribing poetry from her vintage ambulance. She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry
anthology, The Everyday Poet- Poems
to live by ( both published by Michael O’Mara), and her True Tales of the Countryside is
published by The Emma Press. Her first full collection will be published by
Nine Arches Press in April 2018. She lives with her partner the poet James
Sheard on a hillside in Powys, Wales.
