7pm - workshop led by Ross Cogan
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poets: Ross Cogan and Alison Brackenbury
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
Alison
Brackenbury’s tenth collection is ‘Aunt Margaret’s Pudding’, (HappenStance
Press, 2018). Its poems were one of the ingredients of a recent Radio 4
programme and were featured in ‘Pick of the Week’. ‘Gallop’, her Selected
Poems, will be published by Carcanet in February 2019.
Ross Cogan has published
two collections, Stalin’s Desk and The Book I Never Wrote, with Oversteps;
a third, Bragr, was published by Seren
in July 2018. His verse play, Achyncourt,
was performed in Cheltenham and Wantage and broadcast on local radio. works as a writer/researcher,
as well as being a Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. A Gregory Award
winner, he has won the Exeter, Frogmore, Cannon Sonnet and Staple Prizes, and been
placed in others. His poetry has appeared
in The Guardian, Poetry London, PN Review, and a number of other journals.
