Next Buzzwords Sunday November 13th

 

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.