Next Buzzwords Sunday January 9th
(Pandemic allowing!)
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Workshop lead by Clair Chilvers 7pm
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poets, two of our own Buzzwords people: Clair Chilvers and Belinda Rimmer
pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Belinda Rimmer’s poems appear in print and on-line journals, including: Under the Radar, Ambit, Prole, Acumen, Strix, The Curlew, Confingo, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. In 2018, she came second in the Ambit Poetry Competition, and in 2019 in the Stanza Poetry Competition. Her pamphlet, Touching Sharks in Monaco, was a joint winner of the Indigo-First Pamphlet Competition (published, 2019). She is part of a Stroud Poets Pamphlet (Yew Tree Press, 2021) with poems and the photographs that inspired them. Holding On, her most recent pamphlet, was published in November by New walk Editions. Website belindarimmer.com
Clair Chilvers was a cancer scientist, and
latterly worked for the UK National Health Service. She divides her time
between writing and volunteering for the charity Mental Health Research UK that
she co-founded. She lives in Gloucestershire, UK.
She has had poems published in online and print magazines including Agenda,
Allegro, Amaryllis, Artemis, Atrium, the Ekphrastic Review, Impspired, Ink
Sweat and Tears, Live Encounters. Poetry Atlas, Reach Poetry, Sarasvati and
Snakeskin. She won second prize in the Poetry Kit Ekphrastic Competition 2020
and her poems have been longlisted or commended in the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet
Prize 2020, and Poetry Kit Competition 2020. Her first collection Out of the
Darkness (Frosted Fire) was published in 2021. Her second collection Island
(Impspired Press) is forthcoming. www.clairchilverspoetry.co.uk
