Next Buzzwords Sunday November 13th
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Workshop lead by Jessica Mookhergee 7pm
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poet Jessica Mookhergee
pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Jessica
Mookherjee is a British poet of Bengali heritage. She was brought up in
Mumbles, Wales, lived most of her adult life in London and now lives in
Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Her second collection, Tigress, published
by Nine Arches Press and was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Prize
for best second collection in 2021. Her third full collection is Notes from a Shipwreck also
published with Nine Arches Press .She has been published in many print
and online journals and anthologies, including the Bloodaxe anthology
’Staying Human’. She has been published in journals such as Agenda, The
North, Rialto, Under the Radar, Finished Creatures, Ink, Sweat and
Tears, Magma and Poetry Wales. She has twice been highly commended for
best single poem in the Forward Prizes.
