Next Buzzwords Sunday February 2nd
7pm -
workshop led by Jonathan Edwards
8pm -
open mic and guest readings
Guest
Poet: Jonathan Edwards
Upstairs
at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5,
unwaged £3
Jonathan
Edwards's first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa
Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award, and was
shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second
collection, Gen (Seren, 2018),
also received the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award, and in 2019 his
poem about Newport Bridge was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single
Poem. He has read his poems on BBC radio and television and at festivals around
the world, recorded them for the Poetry Archive and led workshops in schools,
universities and prisons. Jonathan is the editor of Poetry Wales, a
Literature Wales Mentor of emerging poets, and a Gladstone's Library
Writer-in-Residence for 2020. He lives in Crosskeys, South Wales.
