Next
Buzzwords Sunday, October 6th
7pm - workshop led by Brenda Read-Brown
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poets: Rachael Clyne and Brenda Read-Brown
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
RACHAEL CLYNE, from Glastonbury, is a
psychotherapist & has published self-help books as well as poetry. She is
well known on the poetry circuit. Her prizewinning collection, Singing at the Bone Tree, is published
by Indigo Dreams. Her work
appears in anthologies & journals
including:
Tears in the Fence, Prole, The Rialto, Under
the Radar, The Interpreters House, Obsessed with Pipework, Lighthouse &
Acumen. Her pamphlet, Girl
Golem is published by 4Word
press
‘These thought
provoking and deftly crafted poems are a playful and powerful examination of
identity, sexuality, heritage and family dynamics’. Julia Webb
In 2001, BRENDA READ-BROWN gave up a secure career as a
project manager to be a poet; it seemed a good idea at the time. Since then
she’s won many poetry slams, and performed her poetry on Radio 4, and in Texas
, Denmark , the House of Lords, the middle of the Atlantic , lots of festivals,
and any number of low dives. She is the current Gloucestershire Poet Laureate,
and has published two collections of her poems: Arbitrary edges (2013),
and Like love (2018). She’s also a prizewinning playwright. So far, she
seems to be getting away with it all, but she’s sure she’ll be found out some
day soon.
“The poems in Like love are uncluttered. They are
simple, profound, and immensely touching. There is great empathy at work
here, an empathy without which no real poems can exist. Read-Brown
deserves a far wider readership than hitherto, and one hopes with this collection
she will find it."
Brian Patten
